Word: saracoglu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...questions were firmly shut away in the brief cases and the minds of these three men. In Ankara it was rumored that Anthony Eden would soon fly to Turkey, to brace the wavering demi-ally. At week's end Turkey's Foreign Minister Sükrü Saracoglu made a speech indicating that, even in Cairo, Anthony Eden was a bracer...
...intention of opposing a Nazi seizure of Bulgaria. On the other hand, others said, the pact meant that if Bulgaria was walked over by Germany, Turkey would not grab at Bulgarian territory-and Turkey's alliance with Britain was intact. Turkish Foreign Minister Sükrü Saracoglu reaffirmed the alliance but left Turkey's specific intentions diplomatically vague...
...Allied plot to bomb the Baku oilfields, more worried by the fact that the Russian press seemed inclined to believe Germany's story. Turkey expected a quick showdown on The Straits, with Germany conniving or otherwise occupied. Putting up a brave front, Foreign Minister Sükrü Saracoglu, who may soon lose his job on Molotov's demand, entertained patrons of the Karpitch Restaurant in Ankara by kicking up his heels in his famous acrobatic zeybek folk dance, with which he used to delight the late Kamal Atat...
...Prime Minister Cvetkovitch formed a National Cabinet. Chinese reported a Japanese plan to take Shanghai. Russia enigmatically exchanged Ambassadors with Italy while rushing heavy motorized forces into Lithuania. Immediately after II Duce's speech, Turkey's President Ismet Inonii, Premier Dr. Refik Saydam and Foreign Minister Sukrii Saracoglu consulted with the Allied Ambassadors. All Turkish military leaves were canceled. Turkey, bound by mutual assistance pacts to the Allies in case of any aggression in the Mediterranean area, announced she would "fulfill her obligations." At Thomas Jefferson's University of Virginia, Franklin Roosevelt served notice that the Democracy...
...months ago, when Russia, like a clumsy cat, was trying to get her paws on the elusive Finns, Turkey's Foreign Minister Shokru Saracoglu talked tough (TIME, Feb. 26). Turkish Defense Minister General Naci Tinaz was busy building military roads to the Russian frontier. Last week General Tinaz resigned "for reasons of health." Day earlier President Ismet Inönü and Foreign Minister Saracoglu had a 90-minute talk with the British Ambassador, Sir Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull-Hugessen, who was about to go to London for a conference. What they told him: 1) "No danger of war exists...