Word: kemalized
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...looked for the new moon. When they should see it Ramadan would begin, Ramadan the mystic month in which the Koran was revealed to Prophet Mohammed. This year the first glint of the new moon had a special, dread significance. Turks had been ordered by their stern dictator, Mustafa Kemal Pasha who made them drop the veil and the fez (TIME, Feb. 15, 1926 et seg.), that beginning with Ramadan they must no longer call their god by his Arabic name, Allah...
...godly man, Dictator Kemal considers that there? is no reason why Turks should not call Allah by his Turkish name, Tanri. There is no reason except centuries of tradition, no reason except that Turkish imams (priests) all know the Koran by heart in Arabic while few if any have memorized it in Turkish. Strict to the point of cruelty last week was Dictator Kemal's decree that muezzins, calling the faithful to prayer from the top of Turkey's minarets, must shout not the hallowed "Allah Akbar!" (Arabic for "God is Great!") but the unfamiliar words "Tanri Ulndur...
While the old muezzins pondered this threat, Dictator Kemal, feeling his progressive oats, decreed that three recently closed narcotics factories in Istanbul shall never be reopened, decreed further that Turkish farmers must sharply reduce their famed crops of opium poppies. "Thus we accomplish," read a Cabinet manifesto, "our most modern and most civilized duty toward the Turkish nation and humanity...
Flush with champagne & cognac, as he always is at the close of a dinner, President Kemal began to stare at the Egyptian Minister's red fez. Upon Kemal the effect was that of a red rag on a bull. He ripped out something in Turkish and the Egyptian Minister, flushing as red as his fez, took it off, later sent details of the affront to fat King Fuad...
...sharp note to Angora, demanded an apology from Turkish Foreign Minister Dr. Tewfik Rushdi who used to be an accoucheur. Expert at handling both excited women and excited governments, Dr. Rushdi suavely replied that there had been no insult. "The banquet hall was somewhat overheated," he alibied, "and President Kemal merely invited His Excellency the Egyptian Minister to remove his fez for his own greater comfort...