Word: rk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thousand women and children were knocked unconscious and eleven were killed last week in the scramble of 300,000 of Istanbul's inhabitants to get a look into the open coffin of the late President Kamal Atatürk. Vowing to follow her foster father to the grave, Flight Lieutenant Sahiba Gokçen, Turkish woman army flier, fasted in Istanbul's Dolmabaghche Palace, was later persuaded by physicians to pull herself together and leave for Ankara, the capital...
Veteran of the modern world's strong men, once called by Britain's Lord Balfour the "most terrible of all the terrible Turks," Atatürk nevertheless left his country with all the forms of democracy intact. To those who looked last week at Turkey as the first real test of what happens when a dictator dies, the answer could be given that Atatürk, admirer of parliamentary government, was not a dictator in the same sense as Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini. Those democratic forms which Atatürk nurtured functioned well last week...
...which he commanded the Turkish troops who routed the Greeks. Prime Minister for twelve years, Ismet Inönü was often called a martinet, is regarded as a brilliant, stubborn bureaucrat. As chaste in his personal life as Atatürk was lecherous, he is violently nationalist. He represented Turkey at two crucial international conferences at Lausanne and Montreux, getting for Turkey virtually all she wanted. French and British statesmen railed at him but the louder their demands, the deafer Ismet Pasha became. A year ago he was forced out of the Prime Minister's office. Some said...
...Many used to sneer that the adopted-daughter system was Atatürk's method of keeping a harem after he had abolished outright polygamy. Atatürk's daughters, however, were invariably plain girls. The Ghazi, not particular in his choice of women, preferred painted cheeks and lips. By giving talented young women the protection of his name he could set them to work safely on jobs never before attempted by a Turkish woman and thus symbolize women's new freedom...
Died. Mustafa Kamal Atatürk. 59, President and one-man top of modern Turkey; of cirrhosis of the liver; in Istanbul...