Word: mustapha
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...existence of polygamy and harems in Turkey and an explanation of the war and Armenian "massacre" questions were the main points brought out in a recent interview by Moukbil Kemal Bey, the well-known Turkish architect who is now in this country handling negotiations for a statue of Mustapha Kemal...
...house came Sheik Mustapha el Maraghi, Grand Cadi of Egypt (sort of Chief Justice of the Supreme Mohammedan Court in Egypt), stepped into a waiting carriage...
...attempting a complete transmutation of the Turkish nation and the Turkish character, the government of Mustapha Kenral has seized almost too large a mouthful. The closing of certain foreign schools in and about Constantinople, at least, is a step of questionable political wisdom, even though warranted by principles of abstract justice...
...Although Mustapha Kemal Pasha has encountered several serious obstacles in his campaign for the modernization of Turkey, he ean count at least one success to his credit. Some of the decisions of the Angora government have seemed impolitic to outsiders, and in his determination to interfere with the foreign schools in Constantinople the Pasha was hardly diplomatic; but the recently discovered tolerance of the average Turkish citizen toward the moving pictures indicates that Occidentalism is growing faster than the world has been led to suspect. Whether this latest development is due to the efforts of Kemal, of whether...
After two years of guerilla warfare, Mustapha Kemal Pasha and his lieutenant, Ismet Pasha, drove the Greeks into the sea at Smyrna after a thunderbolt campaign in August, 1922. British troops at Chanak, on the Dardanelles and on the Ismid Peninsula, covering Constantinople, were faced by a threatening concentration of victorious Turkish troops. Lloyd George, genius of the Greek policy in Asia Minor and bitterest foe of the Turk in Europe, called on the Dominions to rally to the defense of the Straits and on the Balkan Nations to join in an anti-Turk crusade. The British public decided that...