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...remaining seven included men of lesser rank and two notorious assassins, Lazo Ismail and a man known simply as "Horsehide." He, bullnecked, nerveless, had snored through the preceding night. The others had not slept. All were to be executed in a few minutes for conspiracy to murder President Mustapha Kemal Pasha...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Thirteen | 7/26/1926 | See Source »

While political amateurs bore the world with analyses of Rivera, Mussolini and Pangalos, Mustapha Komal Pasha, magic enchanter who affixed the brim to the fez and drew the vell from the fact of Turkish womankind, goes unheralded and unsung, as if social traditions were not a thousand times more difficult to upset than political dicta...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SICK MAN'S DICTATOR | 1/28/1926 | See Source »

There is no Republic but Turkey, and Mustapha is its President,--a part which he acts with consummate skill. A recent issue of the Westminster Gazette carries tales of the potential impetuosity of this morose leader. Intimate stories of him recall the "private annals of Peter the Great." Their verisimilitude is easily credible in view of the likeness of the two chieftains in other respects; both occupied themselves in changing the facades of the social structure they ruled from Oriental to Occidental. Mustapha's literary proclivities lean toward the perusal of German military memoirs. Yet he knows that he reads...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SICK MAN'S DICTATOR | 1/28/1926 | See Source »

...Mustapha Kemal Pasha, President of the Turkish Republic, announced last week that these fragments of admittedly highly advanced European legislation are to be assembled into a Turkish Code, which will supplant the wildly jumbled legal system, based upon interpretations of the Koran, with which the Turks have been immemorially content...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Could Not Walt | 1/25/1926 | See Source »

Little anxiety for the personal safety and comfort of former Sultan Mohammed VI of Turkey was felt in 1922, when eluding the Kemalists he fled from Constaninople aboard a British warship, and the Grand National Assembly of Turkey turned his realm into the republic of which Mustapha Kemal Pasha is now president...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Mohammed VI | 12/7/1925 | See Source »

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