Word: pasha
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mustafa Kemal Pasha...
From the Turkish city of Trebizond (equivalent to a U. S. Fundamentalist stronghold) news came last week that pious women have found a way to circumvent the recent law that all Turkish women must go about with their faces naked. Since the Government of President Mustafa Kemal Pasha has ravished from Turkish womenfolk the veil, Mohammedan "Fundamentalists" in Trebizond adopted last week the umbrella. Determined to protect modesty, they walked in rain or sunshine with only eyes peeping above umbrellas held flat against face and body...
Turkish re-action to the rejection by the U. S. of the Lausanne Treaty (TIME, Jan. 31) did not fully crystallize until last week. Then, at a Cabinet meeting, Dictator-President Mustafa Kemal Pasha voiced the real dissatisfaction of Turks at the action of the U. S. Senate. The U. S., said Dictator Kemal, in substance, does not understand that the "Terrible Turk" of Ottoman days is extinct. . . . The Young Turks of today are trying harder and with more success than any other backward people to catch up with the march of civilization...
...cannot imagine that there is in the whole world a woman capable of refusing to dance with a Turkish officer."--Mustafa Kemal Pasha...
...Silence!" roared Kemal Pasha, and the band stopped amid a hush. Then, loudly apostrophizing his officers, the Dictator-President cried...