Word: kamal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before President Kamal Atatürk of Turkey died he deeded most of his farms and factories to the State. Last week the ghazi's last testament, written in his own hand in September, turned over remaining $3,750,000 worth of property to the management of the Republican People's Party, sole official political organization of the country. Under the Moslem inheritance laws of the sultans, no woman shared in a man's estate. Under the will of Atatürk, stanch advocate of woman's equal rights, women were almost the sole beneficiaries...
...thousand women and children were knocked unconscious and eleven were killed last week in the scramble of 300,000 of Istanbul's inhabitants to get a look into the open coffin of the late President Kamal Atatürk. Vowing to follow her foster father to the grave, Flight Lieutenant Sahiba Gokçen, Turkish woman army flier, fasted in Istanbul's Dolmabaghche Palace, was later persuaded by physicians to pull herself together and leave for Ankara, the capital...
Modern Turkey last week lost her foremost social and political architect. In Istanbul's white-domed alabaster Dolma-baghche Palace, in other days the home of sultans and califs, President Kamal Atatürk, long ill, died of cirrhosis of the liver. Beside his death bed wept his sister and two of his most intimate friends: Ali Fethi Okyar, Ambassador to the Court of St. James's who had stood faithfully by the Grey Wolf's side when Atatürk was waging a desperate uphill battle to save Turkey from dismemberment after the World War; and Sabiha...
Died. Mustafa Kamal Atatürk. 59, President and one-man top of modern Turkey; of cirrhosis of the liver; in Istanbul...
...showdown, German Economics Minister Dr. Walther Funk was dispatched from Berlin to the Balkans. Dr. Funk arrived last week in Ankara, the capital of a Turkey which only recently sent a delegation to Britain, sewed up a London loan for rearmament which was said to array President Kamal Atatürk ("Father of the Turks") with the forces of Democracy...