Word: izmir
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Insultan. In Izmir, Turkey, Hassan Huseyin Coshtu, released from prison, hurried back to court and publicly declared his passionate love for the lady judge who had sentenced him, said he "couldn't think of anything else for three years," was promptly jugged again for "outraging a magistrate during performance of her functions...
...society columns." Though the ban was made to seem a do-it-yourself affair, it was actually inspired by none other than Premier Adnan Menderes himself. The columnists, it seemed, had been giving too much gaudy publicity to The marriage of a former Miss Turkey to the mayor of Izmir, who also happens to be a cousin of the Premier's wife. Among other morsels, the columns reported that the Izmir city council had "volunteered" to pay a year's rent on a seaside apartment for the happy couple...
Sent to live with his grandmother, Adnan was brought up in sunny Izmir (Smyrna) on the Aegean coast, in a manner befitting a young gentleman of property. His English bike was the best in his fashionable neighborhood, his pocket money ample, and his clothes impeccable. At Izmir's American International College, a Congregational mission school that he entered at 13, Adnan showed himself an exceptionally good student and a born athlete. He was center forward on the school soccer team, an outstanding swimmer, and a first-class billiards player whose popularity was enhanced by the fact that...
...annex large chunks of the defeated and disintegrating Turkish empire. As a member of the Turkish underground, Menderes took part in a rebellion against the Greek forces occupying his native Aydin. Later, as an army lieutenant, he served under Mustafa Kemal Ataturk in the offensive that recaptured Izmir from the hapless Greeks. (Among the factors contributing to the defeat of the Greeks: their commanding general's conviction that his legs were made of glass and would break if he moved about too freely...
...crops." He sold or gave the bulk of his properties to families that lived on them, then converted the 3,000 acres he still had into one of Turkey's most modern and prosperous farms. In due course he found a suitable wife-a handsome, well-born Izmir girl named Berin, who bore him three sons...