Word: kurdish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These wild-eyed tribesmen scattered in mud huts through three countries-Turkey, Iran, Iraq-have had battle lust for 3,000 years, have never knuckled under to non-Kurdish governments. From Istanbul last week came news of probably the biggest riot of Turkey's Kurds since the War. Operating from Dersim about 200 miles south of the Black Sea, 300 miles west of the Turkish-Iran border, Kurdish tribesmen with an army of 5,000 demanded that Dictator Mustafa Kamâl Atatürk should establish no military garrisons in Kurdish territory, that Kurds should be allowed...
...news of this bloody Kurdish affray- the climax, according to Prime Minister Ismet Inonü, of "659 recent disturbances in the Dersim region"-was carefully kept out of Turkey's press until the last brigand had been sent flying...
...World War in its Sudanese and Kurdish aspects serves as background in "The Last Outpost" for a touching love problem. It apparently wasn't much of a war anyhow: a few people do get killed, but they are mostly the enemy and it's all done with a smile. How Cary Grant happened to want to marry Gertrude Michael, his nurse in a Cairo hospital, is not made clear--apparently he was just born that way. He did nevertheless; but the situation was complicated by the reappearance of her long lost husband, who really wasn't such a bad fellow...
...when a Briton discovered oil in Mosul (whence the word muslin), not far from the legendary site of the Garden of Eden, in the shadow of Mesopotamia's Kurdish Hills. Then the slippery Sultans of Turkey ruled, as Arab provinces, what is now Irak. The European oil companies were so greedy to get the Sultan's oil that they checkmated one another's efforts until June 1914. The line-up then was Britain, The Netherlands and Germany. Months later the War started, eventually eliminating Buyer Germany and Seller Turkey. After the War the double-crossing was resumed...
...Ankara (see map) was itself a gigantic achievement of the two Dictators. Before they ousted the do-nothing hereditary royal dynasties of Turkey and Persia such a journey could only be made by meandering caravan and in utmost peril of attack by bandits. Most savage of all were the Kurdish cutthroats who for generations had defied both Persian and Turkish soldiers, raiding (first into one country, then into the other along their common frontier. Perhaps the wisest and most enlightened act of the King of Kings was to conclude two years ago with emissaries of Dictator Kemal a pact...