Word: salonica
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Piasters & Perfection. Some of these traits were evident quite early in the character of Mustafa, as the young Atatürk was called. His father, who ran a lumber business in Salonica, died in 1889 when the boy was eight, and left the family without a piaster. Little Mustafa made a fierce resolve: "I am going to be somebody." At twelve, against his mother's orders, he took entrance examinations for a government military school, passed them, and then hectored her till she signed his admission papers. He was a proud, cold, brilliant boy who could follow several conversations...
...schoolteacher from Macedonia, which Athens sophisticates consider Endsville. But Karamanlis has restored order to Greece's turbulent postwar politics, and stability to its economy. In his six years as Prime Minister, he has built a modern highway network that connects Athens and Salonica with hundreds of villages that once were far from the main drag, brought electricity to hundreds of thousands of Greeks who never had known anything but candles, got the shipyards going, and brought strength to the nation's banks. Today Greece's drachma for once commands confidence at home and abroad. Tourists who once...
Other Misfire. The prosecution had done no better in attempting to prove that Bayar and Menderes had arranged to have a bomb planted near Ataturk's birthplace in the Greek city of Salonica in order to incite anti-Greek riots in Turkey in support of Turkish claims to Cyprus. The bombing touched off wild disorder in Istanbul, in which 73 Greek churches were destroyed and 4,000 Greek shops looted, with the loss of a vast quantity of irreplaceable religious...
...arresting all the material witnesses, the new Turkish government had guaranteed there would be a minimum of evidence. A former concierge at the Turkish consulate in Salonica, who had confessed the bombing to Greek authorities, and a Turkish student who admitted being in on the plot both retracted their confessions, claimed their earlier admissions were obtained by force or trickery...
...subsequent weeks the Menderes regime continued to blame the Greeks for the bomb in Salonica, the Communists for the riots in Istanbul. Koprulu's only part in the affair was to defend the government's action during debates in the National Assembly, though privately he had been critical...