Word: kemalized
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...nation, its Democrats and Republicans have quarreled savagely over every aspect of national policy save one-foreign affairs. Last week this time-honored truce was abruptly broken. The man who broke it was none other than ex-President Ismet Inonu, 73, successor to Turkey's late great Strongman Kemal Ataturk...
...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...
...Greece, backed by Britain and France, set out to 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...
...Bayar and two other Deputies in presenting a resolution demanding that the government at long last put into effect the democratic liberties promised by the Turkish constitution. Soon the four rebels launched their own Democratic Party-the first genuine opposition party to be allowed by the ruling Republicans since Kemal Ataturk put Turkey on the road to democracy...