Word: lossow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...With the Resources Available." The greatest influence on his life, says Nuri, was a German colonel named Von Lossow, under whom he studied in Constantinople as a young Turkish army officer before World War I. During a classroom exercise one group of students was assigned to defend a fortified village, another to attack it. The student assigned to command the defenders announced that the town's fortifications were so out of date that it could never be defended, and that he was accordingly withdrawing to find a better place to fight...