Word: mustafa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...formidable fortifications. After the War a defeated and prostrate Turkey watched the destruction of its forts by the victors. In 1923 the Treaty of Lausanne decreed that the famed Straits should be open to all ships, should never again be fortified by Turkey. Last fortnight Turkey's President Mustafa Kamal ("Grey Wolf") Ataturk moved to scrap the Treaty of Lausanne, refortify the strategic Dardanelles...
...British General Election fell last week Egypt's so-called Independence Day, anniversary of the day in 1918 when "Egypt's violent Gandhi," the late great Zaghlul Pasha, demanded Egyptian independence at the British Residency in Cairo. Zaghlul's successor is bulky, big-voiced Wafdist Chief Mustafa Nahas Pasha. He has been telling Premier Nessim, that even if the Premier is obliged to let the British fill Egypt with anti-Italian arms, he ought to demand in exchange concessions that will take Egypt a little nearer real independence. Last week the potent Wafd learned with fury that...
...have these triumphs celebrated in Yildiz, for centuries the most glamorous and sinister harem in the Ottoman Empire, was the neat idea of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk ("Chief Turk"), the progressive Dictator who put Turkish men in derby hats...
...their armaments after their defeat in the World War-threatened to break faith, in imitation of Adolf Hitler. Austria, limited to 30,000 troops by the Treaty of St. Germain, plus 8,000 allowed after the assassination of Dollfuss, sought 100,000 as "absolutely essential." Turkey's pugnacious Mustafa Kemal Ataturk ("Father of the Turks") and Ghazi ("Victorious One"), is suspected of having already fortified the Dardanelles contrary to treaty, hinted that Turkey would now do so openly...
...Pasha sped out from Istanbul to Bakirkoy last week with a slogan ringing in his ears: "Assure the independence of our shirts!" In a normal year Turks turn into shirts and shifts some 50,000,000 yards of cotton sheeting. This they have bought chiefly from Japan, but Dictator Mustafa Kemal is now driving ahead with a Five Year Plan to industrialize Turkey and make her self-sufficient. In this program the building of cotton mills was put first "so that the Turkish people shall no longer wear the imported cotton shirts of economic slavery to the Imperialist Powers." Last...