Word: hodja
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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...
...strong were Hodja Boyar's feelings, in fact, that one Friday evening after prayers he incautiously told worshipers at the Odemis mosque: "All the devout should attend the Democratic Party meeting which will be held day after tomorrow. Those who do not attend may be classed with the infidels...
Albania's pro-Communist President, hulking, baby-faced Enver Hoxha (pronounced Hodja) knew that this week's constitutional convention election was in the bag. His 82 candidates were certain to overwhelm the 20 venturesome men who had turned up in opposition. So he permitted free and secret balloting, under a system rude but effective. It functioned admirably...