Word: angoras
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...bride and bridegroom subsequently wended their way through Anatclia to Angora, the capital. Everywhere they were acclaimed; especially did the bride meet with unhesitating approval. She accompanied her husband everywhere, even to the battle front where Turks were administering a knock-out to the Greeks. Her position and her prestige she used to further the cause of women, but in a land, traditionally conservative, she was not able to get them enfranchised. But her advocation of monogamy has to a great extent been effective. Nonetheless, despite laws allowing only one wife to a man, except in "unusual cases," experts...
Traveling through Palestine and Syria, U. S. Senator William H. King of Utah at length entered Turkey, visited Konia, Smyrna, Angora, Constantinople. From the last place he began a tour of the Balkans, after many weeks arriving in Berlin where he visited his daughter, Mrs. Carl Fischer, wife of an able secretary in the U. S. Embassy there...
There is a situation in Turkey of which Senator King presented two aspects. The basic fact of this situation is that the Turks have moved their capital from Constantinople to Angora, as have the Bolsheviki from Leningrad (Petrograd) to Moscow. At Constantinople many of the Powers have costly embassy buildings and are not disposed, as the Turkish Government would have them do, to move to Angora, which, as a city, is neither prepossessing nor conveniently situate. But the chief reason upon which their refusal is based is the expense of building new embassy or legation quarters at primitive Angora...
Senator King was of the opinion that all the Powers will eventually have to quarter their representatives at Angora for the simple reason that, if they wished to deal with the Government or, to put it another way, to compete with Germany and Russia, they obviously cannot do so from Constantinople...
Divorced. "Ghazi" Mustafa Kemal Pasha, President of the Turkish Republic, from his wife Latife Hanoum; at Angora. (See Page...