Word: sakarya
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After the victory of Sakarya in 1921 Mustafa Kemal Pasha was given by the Turkish Assembly the title Ghazi, meaning the "Victorious One," and for several years as Dictator he was called El Ghazi...
...their chief relaxation the two old campaigners stopped at the Battlefield of Sakarya and General Kemal explained with gusto how he beat the Greeks in 1921. So close grew the confab of host and guest at this point that Turkish and Persian journalists reported ecstatically afterward: "They have become real friends, personal friends and brothers!" At Smyrna, to his grave delight, the King of Kings received personal command of some Turkish troops who pitched under his orders into an exciting sham battle with airplanes raining "boom bombs...
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