Word: atat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Turkey: Ahmed Emin Yalman, editor of Istanbul's newspaper Vatan (Fatherland), is a small, mild-mannered man with an immense capacity for daring independence. He finished his education in the U.S. (three years at Columbia University), then started his paper in 1923, after helping to bring gusty Kamal Atatürk to power. In 1925 Atatürk suspended Ahmed Emin's paper for ten years because he had criticized Government policies. In 1935 Ahmed Emin took up where he had left off. During the war, Vatan was one of the few journals in Turkey which strongly supported...
...almost as great as Inönä's, the Democrats made a strong showing in urban centers. Pending official figures, Ankara dopesters expected the Democrats to get 50 to 100 seats. Bayar's followers chortled that Inonii himself, revered as the successor of the great Kamal Atatürk, ran sixth in a field of 17 candidates in the Ankara district...
...Atatürk, a cold-blooded genius who founded the People's Party, aimed at eventual democracy as part of his Westernization movement, which included a Westernized alphabet and abolition of the veil for women. This week it looked as if a dictatorship was peacefully evolving into a free country...
...Leaders' Man. Saracoglu is one of the few men of Kamâl Atatürk's original collaborators who remains in high office in Turkey (another is Marshal Fevzi Cakmak, Commander in Chief of the Army). He entered Kamâl Atatürk's first Government as Minister of Education. From then on, he was never out of politics. He occupied successive ministries until, on Kamâl Atatürk's death in November 1938, he became Foreign Minister in the first Cabinet formed by President Ismet...
...Government's fear of Communism is another stimulant to Turkish suspicion. Modern Turkey is organized on strict totalitarian lines and is the product of a revolution; 20 years of existence have not yet fully stabilized it. The westernization program of Kamâl Atatürk lifted it out of a medieval slough, but economically and financially it is still far from healthy, and wartime difficulties have stimulated latent inflation...