Word: hanoum
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Dates: during 1925-1925
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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...
...live with him no longer, had herself sought the divorce. Official statements discreetly said nothing. All that was definitely known was that about three weeks ago Mme. Kemal left Angora precipitately. Ministers of the Government were present to bid her farewell, but the President was conspicuously absent. Latife Hanoum, 21, pretty, plump, short, graceful and possessed of "large, .luminous and altogether entrancing black eyes," is the daughter of Mouamerou-Chaki Bey, rich merchant of Smyrna, who once had connections with the New York Stock Exchange...
...London. During the Graeco-Turkish War of 1921-22, she, living in Smyrna with her papa, was 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...
...these things inclined Mustafa Kemal's heart toward her and, as Latife Hanoum. subsequently said, their union was more a joining of minds than anything else. The man Mustafa used to talk about Turkey to the girl Latife in the shade of her father's house. He told her of all he hoped to accomplish for his native land and of the prejudices, born of ignorance, bred of superstition. that he meant to extirpate. The girl listened enthralled...
Divorced. "Ghazi" Mustafa Kemal Pasha, President of the Turkish Republic, from his wife Latife Hanoum; at Angora. (See Page...