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President Mustafa Kemal Pasha of Turkey: "I continued last week to exterminate my enemies. Abdul Kadir Bey, one time Governor of Angora, was hanged during the week for participating in a plot to assassinate me which I am thought to have trumped up. To date, 18 of my political enemies have been disposed of by hanging through this strategem (TIME, Sept...
First to feel the prickle of a noose was Dr. Nazim Pasha, founder of the Young Turk movement which overthrew "Abdul the Damned" (Abd-ul-Hamid II) in 1909, and dictated the government of Turkey as a Pan-Islamic oligarchy throughout the World...
...Nazim Pasha's executioner, a man of skill, drew the noose tight under one ear. Ensued "a perfect hanging." The head, jerked to one side by the knot, snapped the neck vertebra, bringing instant death. Less fortunate was Deputy Hilmi Bey. His hangman, a clumsy lout, was forced to hang him twice...
...were these so eminent statesmen hanged? Their death sentences declared them participants in the alleged plot to assassinate President Mustafa Kemal Pasha-as a result of which 13 suspects had already been executed (TIME, July 26). But this surprising total of 17 hangings can find no justification in a, "plot" which, if it ever existed, was never brought to the point of endangering Mustafa Kemal's life...
Paradoxically Dictator-President Kemal rose to fame and power as a general in the Young Turk armies, a subordinate of the men hanged by his orders last week. Not until General Kemal Pasha proved himself the ablest Turkish World War commander was he able to rally a Turkish Nationalist following from within the Young Turk movement and to organize this clique into the present Kemal-dominated Turkish dictature...