Word: menemen
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...Leader of the dervishes was 94-year-old Sheik Abdul Hassan, who sat cross-legged on the floor of his prison cell, dressed in an expensive fur-lined overcoat, taking snuff and murmuring "Bismillah!" ("In the name of God!") The night before he was to mount the scaffold at Menemen he quietly died...
Ismael Husseyin stood on that scaffold with the rest of the condemned. While hangmen twisted ropes round his colleagues' necks he suddenly leaped away, fled through the streets followed by whizzing bullets, a dozen yapping curs, and most of Menemen's many...
...effort to explain the Menemen executions last week, Turkish officials an nounced that the Republic was "completely neutral" in the matter of religion, made no attempt to interfere with mosque services or missionary schools. It was, on the other hand, determined to suppress the dervishes because they were secret societies determined to bring Turkey back to the social forms of six or seven centuries...
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