Word: bosporus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's beginning Russia helped ease the pressure still more. Joseph Stalin himself wrote to President Inönü to assure him that Russia did not, as Nazi propaganda charged, have designs on the Dardanelles and the Bosporus...
Turkey, moved to evacuate civilians from European Turkey including Istanbul, offered free transportation to those who would go eastward across the Sea of Marmara or the Bosporus into vast, hilly Anatolia. But at week's end only a few thousands had applied. The only inference from such an attempt at evacuation was that Turkey feared invasion and if invaded intended to fight...
...brink of Europe, facing Asia across the shimmering Bosporus, the Hill of Pera is crowned by one of the swankest old hotels in the world. It is Istanbul's famed Hotel Pera Palace, chuck-full of faded tapestries and the queerest collection of Victorian rocking chairs, settees and oversize bathroom fixtures this side of Bombay. Last week a rattletybang little streetcar jammed with Turks was just careening around a curve in front of the Pera Palace when a great belch of flame and smoke pushed out the whole first floor of the hotel with a crunching, grunting roar. Against...
...them the Turks have spent four years maneuvering extensively. They also have two fortified lines: the Maritsa Line, running parallel to the river of that name from the Aegean to Edirne (Adrianople) and from there to the Black Sea, and the Chatalja Line, about 20 miles north of the Bosporus. Behind these run The Straits. To man her defenses Turkey has an Army of about 25 divisions, two armored brigades, four cavalry divisions, and about a half-dozen fixed garrisons-about 420,000 regulars...
...chief unknown quantity in all these calculations is Turkey, which, holding the Dardanelles and the Bosporus, has the most strategic position of all. The Turk is a good soldier but the Turkish Army has outdated equipment. In Europe Turkey is only a second-rate adversary although if she were forced to retire to the mountains of Asia Minor she might become more difficult to deal with...