Word: eskisehir
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...contrast, ebullient, shirt-sleeved Biilent Ecevit, campaigning in the Anatolian city of Eskisehir, charged that Turkish foreign policy was "controlled by the U.S. Congress," and denounced government corruption. A onetime graduate student at Harvard, former Premier Ecevit, 50, plunged into the throngs to press the flesh U.S.-style. For the first time in Turkey's history, women were a noticeable part of the youthful crowds at his rallies...
Arrest on the Road. Premier Menderes was spending the night at a guesthouse at a new sugar mill in Eskisehir, where that day he had denounced the lawyers and professors who had criticized his most recent efforts to repress opposition, and told cheering supporters: "They think they can bring us down, but they cannot. We are too strong. We will fix them." Around midnight, pleasantly warmed by raki. he went...
Aegean provinces. The Menderes government's attitude became clear at the start: on his departure from Ankara, police refused to let any of Inonu's supporters into the railway station. When he tried to speak from the train to a crowd of Republicans at Eskisehir, a city of 125,000, engine whistles blasted throughout his speech, and a freight train was backed onto the main line between Inonu and the crowd...
They know him, first, as a great soldier who fought in the Balkan and First World Wars, then helped Kamâl Atatürk to drive the Greeks out of Turkey in 1922. At the village of Inönü, near Eskisehir, Ismet Pasha broke the Greeks' resistance. When Kamâl Atatürk ordered all Turks to take family names he asked his great friend to call himself Inönü. Ismet means Chastity...
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