Word: rk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although he lacks the fire of his predecessor Kamâl Atatürk, he has captured the loyalty and devotion of all Turks...
They know him, first, as a great soldier who fought in the Balkan and First World Wars, then helped Kamâl Atatürk to drive the Greeks out of Turkey in 1922. At the village of Inönü, near Eskisehir, Ismet Pasha broke the Greeks' resistance. When Kamâl Atatürk ordered all Turks to take family names he asked his great friend to call himself Inönü. Ismet means Chastity...
...Turks know Ismet Inönü, secondly, as the man who was Kamâl Atatürk's trusted lieutenant in civil life. Kamâl Atatürk was a man of great ideas, but of little method. Inönü was his administra tor. Whether it was separating Church and State, freeing women from the veil, changing the alphabet from Arabic to Latin, building a railroad system without foreign capital, deodorizing all public buildings, or raising a new capital at Ankara Inönü set up the machinery...
...independent thinker, did not hesitate to break with Kamâl Atatürk in 1937 over some question of policy which remains obscure to this day. Inönü resigned as Premier and the two men did not speak again until Kamâl Atatürk lay on his deathbed. Nevertheless, Kamâl Atatürk's will provided for the education of Indnii's two sons and daughter and the Grand National Assembly be lieved it was carrying out Kamâl Atatürk's desire when it chose...
Turkey almost vanished from history after World War I. Kamâl Atatürk saved her. In the 21st month of World War II she is threatened with that fate again. This time Kamâl's successor must save her or go down with...