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Forceful, champagne-swizzling President KamĊl Atatürk has his heroic occupation listed in the British Who's Who as "Renovator of Turkey." Last week Istanbul's usually authoritative newsorgan Tan declared that when the Grand National Assembly meets November 1, Renovator KamĊl Atatürk is going to change the Turkish Constitution radically and order new elections held. Promptly KamĊl Atatürk cracked down on Tan for "disseminating false news likely to cause harm to the State," punished the paper by suspending it for ten days, succeeded...
...probably the biggest riot of Turkey's Kurds since the War. Operating from Dersim about 200 miles south of the Black Sea, 300 miles west of the Turkish-Iran border, Kurdish tribesmen with an army of 5,000 demanded that Dictator Mustafa Kamâl Atatürk should establish no military garrisons in Kurdish territory, that Kurds should be allowed to keep their arms, should continue the time-honored custom of paying taxes by bargaining with their tribal chiefs. Kamâl Atatürk gave them an answer-30,000 Turkish troops, a fleet of war planes...
...heroine of the Kurd hunt was 22-year-old Sabiha Gogçen Hanoum, Dictator Kamâl Atatürk's adopted daughter who last year became the first woman officer of the Turkish Flying Corps, and a pioneer in Kamâl Atatürk's movement to open all professions, even the army, to the tough, modern Turkish woman. She volunteered for service during the uprising, plunked a bomb on the house of Seyyid Riza, a rebel leader, killed him and so helped mightily to crush the rebellion. For her trouble the Turkish Government awarded...
Istanbul baited its remaining strays with poisoned meat, killing thousands annually. In recent times the city has erected modern pounds where unlicensed dogs are humanely chloroformed or poisoned, with a thoroughgoing round-up every spring. Returning to the Istanbul of Kamâl Atatürk in 1935 after an absence of 36 years. Sir Evelyn Wrench was impressed not by dogs but by cats. In London's Spectator he wrote...
...blinked his way across Europe, stopped off at Milan for a head-to-head with Mussolini's son-in-law, Count Galeazzo Ciano, Europe's youngest foreign minister. These two reached an accord ending much of the Italo-Turkish tension which has sprung from Kamal Atatürk's closeness to Stalin. Turkish fears that operations against her might take off from Italy's Dodecanese Islands, and Italian nervousness about Turkey's refortification of the Dardanelles. In substance the Ciano-Aras accord is a pact of mutual good intentions...