Word: ghazi
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Despots and dictators are formed in the same mould; last week, "Ghazi" Mustafa Kemal Pasha, President of the Turkish Republic, announced that it was his pleasure to divorce his wife, Latife Hanoum. And with no more formality, except the possible signing of a document, she was divorced...
...kept under surveillance by the Greeks, who believed her to be a spy. When, in the summer of 1922, the Turks drove the Greeks into the sea and triumphantly entered Smyrna, Latife Hanoum, at the head of a group of Turkish maidens, first saw the manly form of "Ghazi" Mustafa Kemal Pasha, then about 41 years of age, to whom she offered buns, coffee and shelter under her father's roof...
...Ghasi fanatics who shattered the Fore and Aft, and the thirty-one violators of war laws just released from Leavenworth by a presidential pardon have much in common. The Ghazi, as all devotees of Kipling know, expected to achieve Paradise by dying at the hands of his enemies, and the war prisoner doubtless hoped for the halo of the earthly martyr by going to jail...