Word: kemal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cover subject of TIME'S fourth issue, back in 1923, was Turkey's late, great Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. Since then, TIME has followed Turkey's drive to become a modern nation with many a continuing story, this week stops for a comprehensive look at the man many consider the greatest Turk since Ataturk. See FOREIGN NEWS, The Impatient Builder...
...acres of cotton and wheat land watered by the river known to the Turks as the Menderes and to the ancient Greeks as the Meander. (It was affection for his birthplace that led the dynamic Adnan to choose so undescriptive a surname when in 1934 the late great Kemal Ataturk, father of modern Turkey, ordered all Turks to take a family name...
...westernizing Turkey in the 1920s, Turkey's Mustafa Kemal Ataturk prohibited "astrologers, fortunetellers and dervishes," and the Mevlevi order went underground. Now the ban is being lifted quietly by the Turkish government; in addition to its monastic members, the order has some half million lay members in Turkey. That Founder Jalal al-Din Rumi and his teachings are still a living force was demonstrated last week in Istanbul when 200 policemen turned out to cope with 4,000 enthusiasts who broke the windows and smashed the counter of the city's main post office. Cause of the riot...
...third wife, he touched off vehement, widely publicized feminist demonstrations. In the more cosmopolitan Moslem cities such as Rabat, Cairo, Beirut, Istanbul and Karachi, unveiled women have long since ceased to be a novelty. In Turkey the veil was lifted some 30 years ago under the late great Dictator Kemal Ataturk, and in Iran under the late Reza Shah...
...government refused to release the popular vote totals, which, according to unofficial counts, gave the opposition 51.6% of the vote. "Serious illegalities in the elections have destroyed peace among our citizens," cried the 73-year-old Inonu, who had inherited the mantle of power from the late Kemal Ataturk, only to lose to the Democrats' Menderes in 1950. The Republicans ignored the fact that it was they who had set up the system by which a party with a minority of popular votes could win a sizable majority in the Assembly...