Word: kiazim
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what the Allies have to say a Turkish mission headed by General Kiazim Orbay left for London, reputedly to demand that if Britain and France want Turkey to stand with them they must furnish her at once with large supplies of tanks, planes and artillery and must agree to support the Turkish currency-a clear case of Oriental blackmail...
Then came informal talks between General Gamelin and Lord Gort at the War Office. It was also taken for granted that they would confer with General Kiazim Orbay, Inspector General of the Third Turkish Army, unless he had come to London just to see his tailor. Their theme: military tactics of Britain, France and Turkey in the Eastern Mediterranean. Bang-up climax was a demonstration of Anglo-French naval power as units of the French Atlantic squadron for the first time since 1918 joined the British Home Fleet at Rosyth...