Word: kemalized
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...Similarly based on the Swiss code is the new civil law imposed on Turkey by Dictator-President Mustafha Kemal Pasha (TIME, Feb. 21, 1927). *Egyptian Prince Sabit Bey divorced himself in this convenient fashion from Mrs. Jean Nash, famed "Best Dressed Woman in the World," after they had been wed for a whole month...
Lately, brusque, kinetic Mustafha Kemal, President of the Republic of Turkey, glanced, too, at the tablets. Elsewhere in Turkey, by Presidential decree (TIME, Sept. 17), the Arabic script had been supplanted suddenly by the Latin alphabet, and President Kemal ordered that the Holy Inscriptions, like any others, must be spelled out in Latin characters...
...just when Kemal gave this order, the other great Eastern Europeanizer, Afghanistan's King Amanullah, was forced from his throne (TIME, Jan. 28). Reflecting that perhaps such a moment was not propitious for making religious alterations in Turkey, Kemal rescinded his order...
Last week the entire faculty of the Stamboul Divinity School was summoned to conference with President Kemal. Secret though the meetings were, two important Kemal-changes loomed. One prospect was a renewal of the order to Latinize the Koran. The other, even more radical, was a slight Christianizing of Mohammedan ritual. Correspondents reported that this would include the wearing of shoes and slippers in the mosques instead of leaving them at the door as good Mohammedans have done since the prophet's day. Moreover, instead of kneeling on prayer rugs, the Kemalized Mohammedans may be seated in pews...
...either side of the track, Trotsky amused himself by re-reading several works by Anatole France, famed and precious French scoffer. When, in obedience to fresh orders from Moscow, the Trotskys were booted into Turkey (TIME, Feb. 11), Comrade Trotsky sent the following note to Turkish President Mustafa Kemal Pasha: "I was brought here against my will...