Word: kemalist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sure the motion of censure was snowed under by 214 Kemalist votes, but on thinking the whole matter over Dictator Kemal must have wondered whether the idea of even a ten-deputy opposition was such a good one after all. In Turkey the will of the dictator is communicated by means wondrous, swift and silent. Those who cross it are sometimes found hanged to their own doorposts at dawn. Bright and early on the morn after the vote, Leader Fethi called upon "The Modernizer," informed him that overnight the opposition party had dissolved...
...eminent and honored Fethi Bey, founder-candidate of the new "Liberal Republican Party." When some of the rabble began to howl "Bread, bread!", protesting that in their misery they did not want to vote, police lashes curled, cracked. His Excellency Fethi Bey was triumphally elected. Next day 15 Kemalist Deputies deserted the President's party as ostentatiously as possible, announced that after communing with their consciences they had become ''Liberal Republicans" instead of "Peoples' Republicans...