Word: mehmet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...father, the late Hadji Mehmet, was the most important and feared man of the district. Galloping horsemen slowed down when they passed our house at dawn so as not to wake Hadji Mehmet. Roosters crowed in the name of Hadji Mehmet. But even he died. Nothing is forever. When I was a child, there were seven of us in the village who went to school to learn to read and write from the hoca. I was the richest of the seven, and all I had was my dress and a pair of red slippers. Today even I am not satisfied...
...Died. Mehmet Munir Ertegun, 61, reserved, brush-mustachioed Turkish Ambassador to the U.S., dean of Washington's Diplomatic Corps, onetime Ambassador to the Court of St. James's and to France, expert on Turkish law; of a heart attack; in Washington...