Word: rk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President of Turkey, Sükrü Saracoglu, Turkey's Prime Minister, and Numan Menemencioglu, Foreign Minister, inherited a policy from the man who built up Turkey from the ruins of a degenerate empire. That policy: no entanglement with foreign powers. The great Kamâl Atatürk laid it as a cornerstone of modern Turkey's international relations. Time modified it while he still lived: to maintain Turkey's tottering economy he had to arrange some foreign loans. War modified it still further after Kamâl Atatürk's death: caught between...
...bridge, the issue has changed. The Allies hold something in their hands that Germany never had: the prospect of complete and final victory in Europe and reconstruction of the Continent's political structure. That might mean the consolidation of everything the Turks with Kamâl Atatürk had fought for: a strong position in the Balkans and the Middle East, some territorial gains which would give Turkey more protection against the possibility of future attack...
...Leaders' Man. Saracoglu is one of the few men of Kamâl Atatürk's original collaborators who remains in high office in Turkey (another is Marshal Fevzi Cakmak, Commander in Chief of the Army). He entered Kamâl Atatürk's first Government as Minister of Education. From then on, he was never out of politics. He occupied successive ministries until, on Kamâl Atatürk's death in November 1938, he became Foreign Minister in the first Cabinet formed by President Ismet...
...long as you can honorably do so, keep Turkey out of war. But if you must go to war, don't fight on Germany's side. With Germany, you lose if you win." -such were the legendary last words of Mustafa Kamâl Atatürk, creator of modern Turkey...
...Turkey is forced to take sides-if, for example, Adolf Hitler wants a Turkish road to the East. Then the United Nations can only hope that Turkey's statesmen will bear in mind the supposed last words of their old friend and idol, Kamâl Atatürk...