Word: kemalized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sense of humor is one faculty not generally included in the list of amiable qualities that form the make-up of the Turk, but for once he has played his reputation false. The Nationalist leader, Mustafa Kemal has as his representative at the present conference at Lausanne, the general Ishmet Pasha. Now Ishmet's great usefulness lies not so much in the distinction of his services,--though they have been many and great, Allah is witness! for he is a trained diplomat and his recent victories over the Greeks in a military way are credited to strategy of the highest...
...either obtain more than her share of influence or power. Italy has recently acquired a government decidedly hostile to the United Kingdom. And Turkey with almost diabolical genius is taking full advantage of the disturbances. "States powerful enough to make demands need not feel bound by promises," argues Mustapha Kemal from Constantinople; and his representatives at the approaching Lauzanne conference are accordingly instructed that the treaties of the old Sultan as well as the recent Mudania pact are all in the scrap basket together...
Mustapha is a good name for Kemal and his Turkish associates. They "mustapha" this and they must have a that, and lately they have been pretty consistently getting it. France and Italy, with the reluctant agreement of England, have given back to them Thrace and about everything they lost in the Great War except complete freedom in ruling the Hellespont and the Dardanelles...
This in brief is the situation which causes War and rumors of more War to fill the daily papers. The opiate, the unsigned Treaty of Sevres which was intended to mark the end of the Turk in Europe,--has been treated most irregularly by Mustapha Kemal Pasha, who from all indications is doing his best to re-carve the boundaries of the Near East to suit his Angora. In the meantime the strong-arm squad,--the Greeks under a recently recrowned and still more recently un-crowned Constantine,--undertook to enforce the provisions of the treaty, feeling the inheritance...
...patient,--Mustapha Kemal and his Nationalist movement,--flushed with success over the heirs of Alexander, has advanced upon the town of Chanak and Kum Kale, both on the Dardanelles, and even, within two days deliberately entered the prescribed neutral zone about the passageway from the Mediterranean to the Black Sea. The doctors all this while,--the Allies,--have been on the borders of hysteria. Ultimatums have passed from Britain to Kemal, and, height, of insolence, Kema! has demanded Eastern Thrace. Moreover, the Nationalist leader, accepting the Allied terms, has added the proviso that be shall continue military operations during...