Word: atat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...League High Commissioner of French nationality, 2) it shall owe allegiance to Syria three years hence when France gives up her Syrian mandate, 3) Turkey and France shall "guarantee its international integrity." Foreign Minister Dr. Aras knew that this "strictly legal and just settlement" would give Dictator Kamal Atatürk virtual dominion of Alexandretta, that Turks would have free access for their goods through Alexandretta's economically vital port...
...home but blinked his way across Europe, stopped off at Milan for a head-to-head with Mussolini's son-in-law, Count Galeazzo Ciano, Europe's youngest foreign minister. These two reached an accord ending much of the Italo-Turkish tension which has sprung from Kamal Atatürk's closeness to Stalin. Turkish fears that operations against her might take off from Italy's Dodecanese Islands, and Italian nervousness about Turkey's refortification of the Dardanelles. In substance the Ciano-Aras accord is a pact of mutual good intentions...
...another 225,000; rejoiced that typhus has not broken out as had been expected in the besieged capital; advocated additional Red debusing. ¶ The French and the Turks, past masters of diplomacy, fenced delicately over what was now admitted in Geneva to be virtually a demand by Dictator Kama! Atatürk ("Father of the Turks") that France hand over to him from her Syrian mandate the sanjak (district) of Alexandretta, scene of recent bloody riots (TIME, Jan. 18). Sagely observed a veteran League sec- retary, "Like everyone else, except the English and the French, the Turks have now become...
Dictator Kamâl Atatürk last week rushed with Turkish troops to the Syrian frontier and presumably his bravoes staged the riot in Antioch. Immediately afterward the tense atmosphere suddenly, mysteriously cleared. The Dictator returned to Istanbul and his Foreign Office announced that it was dickering amicably with French Premier Léon Blum...
Turkey asks that, when so-called independence is given to Syria (which will actually remain under French influence) separate so-called independence be also given to Alexandretta. With this status "independent Alexandretta" would actually be under Dictator Kamâl Atatürk's thumb, and he wants a leased right-of-way for Turkish produce to the city of Alexandretta. vital Syrian port...