Word: angoras
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Angora Government has already established a comprehensive system of hygiene and health control through its Department of Health and Child Welfare. The chief work is divided into two classes: prevention of disease and cure of disease, with bureaus covering the special phases of city health, sanitation, and so forth...
...proposal to force Turks to marry when they reach the age of 25 and to legislate for the arrival of one child from each couple every three years was defeated in a session of the Angora Assembly...
...open up the interior of the country and facilitate transportation to the coast. Ports, canals, roads are to be built in addition. The next important project on a long list-at least the press says it is, but it has not yet been officially published-is the rebuilding of Angora on the plan of Washington. The New York Times correspondent says: " It is to be on an heroic scale with all modern require-ments-public buildings, Government offices, sanitation, avenues, parks and so forth...
Mohammed VI, deposed Sultan, issued (from Cairo) a proclamation to the Moslem world calling upon it to ignore the decree of the Angora Assembly separating the office of Caliph (successor to the prophet) from that of Sultan (sovereign). He further declared himself still to be both Sultan and Caliph, and asserted that in fleeing from Constantinople he was following a precedent set by the Prophet, who fled from his enemies in Mecca to his friends in Medina...
Ismet Pasha, Turkish Foreign Minister, will, it is announced, head the Turkish Delegation. It was Ismet who guided the destiny of Turkey at the last meeting of the conference, and it was largely due to his influence with the Angora Assembly that the Turkish Delegates have such a firm basis for the resumption of deliberations...