Word: atat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nations Commission's elections were not held was that France had secretly promised Turkey that at least 22 of the Sanjak's 40 assembly seats would go to Turks. Since Turks number no more than 40% of the population, since many Sanjak Turks dislike Dictator Kamal Atatürk's regime, France found it impossible to deliver the votes to Turkey against a united anti-Turkish majority of mixed nationalities while an honest international commission was watching. With the commission gone, say anti-Turks, the elections can now be managed so as not to offend Kamal Atat...
...cabin of her Vultee bomber flower-filled by proud Turks, Turkey's "Flying Amazon," 24-year-old Pilot-Major Sabiha Gökeen (adopted daughter of President Kamâl Atatürk hopped off on a good-will flight to Athens, Belgrade, Bucharest...
Dapper President Kamal Atatürk, "Father of the Turks," definitely learned last week that a life of ease on a sumptuous superyacht awaited him whenever he felt inclined to leave his pink-tinted villa on the hill above Ankara, and take to Turkish waters. Before the star & crescent could be raised over President-Dictator Kamal Atatürk's gift from his people, however, a diplomatic snarl between the U. S., Germany and Turkey had to be untangled...
Westernization. The King of Kings combines his knowledge of time-honored Iranian political methods with a passion for reform and an incorrigible interest in blue prints. Despiser of meddling, dictating European governments, he nevertheless admires Western habits and dress, Western technical achievements. Just as Kamal Atatürk had ordained in Turkey a few years before, Reza Shah Pahlavi ordered jail sentences for turban-wearers, forbade veils for Iranian women. Robed, turbaned mullahs were obliged to carry licenses. The Iranian habit of contracting temporary marriages, sanctioned by the Shiah sect of Mohammedanism, was so curtailed by the Shah that polygamy...
Dictator KamĊl Atatürk is not of the stuff to stand for war boats of the Great Powers receiving special facilities in Turkish ports, especially at a moment when Turkey is dropped from their Council. In Ankara last week reports were that General Inönü had backed up Dr. Aras and been cracked down upon for his pains. The British and French were quietly informed that the Turkish Government "interprets" the Nyon agreement as not affording any special Turkish facilities in the pirate patrol...