Word: chanak
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...grimy little Greek freighter, the Maiotis, on which the fugitive Chicagoan fled from Greece to escape return to the United States to face trial for fraud, passed the Turkish port of Chanak, on the Straits, where the ship was inspected by local officials...
...convincingly at Angora. Once more that redoubtable invalid plays the classic Ottoman game of fast-and-loose with Russia and Britain. He signs the Lausanne pact, and as readily a treaty of amity with Russia. He drives the unbeliever into Greece. He toys with the wily Briton at Chanak, Mosul, and in Irak. He has the very temerity to throw a wrench into the World Court, a deed pardonable only in provincials from Idaho and Wisconsin...
After two years of guerilla warfare, Mustapha Kemal Pasha and his lieutenant, Ismet Pasha, drove the Greeks into the sea at Smyrna after a thunderbolt campaign in August, 1922. British troops at Chanak, on the Dardanelles and on the Ismid Peninsula, covering Constantinople, were faced by a threatening concentration of victorious Turkish troops. Lloyd George, genius of the Greek policy in Asia Minor and bitterest foe of the Turk in Europe, called on the Dominions to rally to the defense of the Straits and on the Balkan Nations to join in an anti-Turk crusade. The British public decided that...
Orders to prepare for evacuation within six weeks were given the 10,000 British troops at Chanak and Constantinople. Six U. S. destroyers steamed down the blue Marmora and out through the Dardanelles for home...
...been much during the last three years to strain relations between these two governments. When the Turks, fired by a new nationalism, began to sweep into Europe, the British were very surprised to see the French Government withdrawing its troops from the joint guard, leaving English troops alone at Chanak. But this slight misunderstanding was dispelled when France and England together forced the Turk to accept the terms of the armistice at Mudania. They were acting again in harmony at Lauzanne, with peace apparently in sight, when the conference suddenly came to a dead stop and the delegates departed with...