Word: rk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...252rk, long ill, died of cirrhosis of the liver. Beside his death bed wept his sister and two of his most intimate friends: Ali Fethi Okyar, Ambassador to the Court of St. James's who had stood faithfully by the Grey Wolf's side when Atatürk was waging a desperate uphill battle to save Turkey from dismemberment after the World War; and Sabiha Gökgen, one of his five adopted daughters, who is a Turkish Air Force pilot.* One grief-stricken friend. Salih Bozuk, put a pistol to his head, critically wounded himself...
Public dancing, which the Father of All Turks had introduced enthusiastically as a part of his Westernization program, was canceled in Turkey on the night the President died, and nowhere could one buy raki, the anisette drink which Atatürk often guzzled for hours on end. Istanbul burst out with such a display of the red-with-white-crescent Turkish flags that although all were at half mast, they made the city look en fete instead of in grief, and the Government asked that all flags except those on public buildings be withdrawn...
...abed a medium-sized, lean, 59-year-old man with receding colorless hair and a cultivated, fixed stare. The celebration was held because 15 years ago this soldier-statesman - born simple Mustafa, then called Mustafa Kemal (Perfection), later renamed by Turkey's legislators Kamâl Atatürk (''Perfection, Father of All Turks") - had pronounced: "I decide that Turkey become a Republic with a President...
Last week Kamâl Atatürk, having long suffered from a hard, dissolute, energetic life, had again fooled the doctors who have often warned him that nights spent in bars, cheap night clubs and bordellos would mean death. He was said to be out of danger, and the celebration became more a tribute to Turkey's first and, so far, only President than to the Republic itself...
...Ghazi ("The Victorious") died last week, he would have left to the people he ruled so firmly a legacy unmatched by any other 20th Century ruler in material, social, educational accomplishments. Realizing that national prestige paid dividends. President Atatürk, with the driving force of a dictator, built up a modern, mechanized army. That made Turkey sought after by Germany, France and England, as a powerful Near Eastern ally. His Government doubled the country's railroad mileage, started sugar and textile factories, coal and iron industries to make Turkey more self-sufficient. He ordered electrification and reforestation programs...