Word: fevzi
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Three years ago, just at the height of an election campaign, a handsome young Moslem hodja named Fevzi Boyar arrived in the western Turkish town of Odemis. Like most of Turkey's Moslem divines, Hodja Boyar took a dim view of the secular government established by the late, great Kemal Ataturk,* rejoiced that Premier Adnan Menderes and his Democratic Party had at long last restored religious instruction in Turkey's schools and even raised priestly salaries...
...used last week to ban them. A clause in his bill provides that in the case of people attempting to hold unauthorized meetings, the police or military should shoot three times in the air, and if the meeting does not then disperse, they may fire into the crowd. When Fevzi Karaosmanoglu, leader of the newly created Freedom Party, vigorously protested that this provision was the work of a dictator, he was suspended for using the awful word...
...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...
...acceptance of Lend-Lease aid was unneutral. But he could hear clearly enough reports from Turkey's Bulgarian border that Germany was increasing her gasoline stocks and working feverishly on air bases in Bulgaria. Turkey awaited her Kismet (fate) and wondered about rumors that Chief of Staff General Fevzi Cakmak was partial to the Axis...
Blitz Without Roads? If the decision is to burst, Russia must be reckoned with, and Russia has promised Turkey not to join in any attack on her. Against Germany alone Turkey could put up a respectable, though probably not a winning, fight. Chief of Staff Marshal Fevzi Cak-mak (pronounced Chockmock) says that Turkey is an infantryman's paradise, with hills, valleys and passes that crack riflemen and machine-gunners could hold. Infantry is the Army's pride, as it has been since the days of the Janizaries. The infantry is rendered stronger by the fact that...