Word: ankara
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...country's desperate plight and the government's shortcomings in coping with it have been reported fully in opposition (Republican) and independent newspapers in Istanbul and Ankara, which vigorously protested the gag. Warned Opposition Leader General Ismet Inonu, former Turkish President: "We are going toward totalitarianism." The only hope was that Turkey's newspapers, which boldly and cleverly evaded a less repressive press law of 1954, might find ways to make the new restrictions unenforceable...
...round of communal fighting. For three days knives flashed and stones flew as Turk fought Greek in ugly little scrimmages all over the island. Scores were hurt. Many Greek-owned shops were wrecked. Crying "civil war," Fazil Kutchuk, leader of the Cyprus-Is-Turkish party, wired Ankara for Turkish government support...
...found the weird sounds so congenial that he stopped and had a jam session. In Karachi the first show was half-empty, the second nearly full, the third packed. "Man," bragged Dizzy, "give us three shows, and we'll create our own audience." At a garden party in Ankara, Gillespie saw a tattered crowd peering from outside the fence and insisted that they be admitted. "We came to play for the poor people as well as the rich people," he said...
Five Fingers, based on a true war-time espionage tale by the German military attache in Ankara, could have been an important study of how a little man from the lower class becomes a big man from the upper class. As the movie develops, however, it is evident that director Joseph L. Mankiewicz wanted to produce merely an amusing little spy thriller, and that's exactly what he's done...
Danielle Darrieux retains an aristocratic air throughout her relations with valet Mason. Her scheming has a real scope, and her sardonic, unrelenting smile is very convincing. Michael Rennie, nattily attired in a Bond-tailored-to-measure suit, is the London office's special troubleshooter sent to Ankara to bust open the nasty mess. He and his Hollywood-styled henchmen, who take part in the inevitable last-reel chase, resemble Dragnet posses currently on view on television. Otherwise, settings appear authentic, and the total lightweight result is quite entertaining...