Word: tary
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Dates: during 1953-1953
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...Sevim Tari is a young (28), pretty Turkish girl of good family. What makes her unusual in Turkey is that she is also a Communist. Daughter of a high-ranking Turkish police official now dead, she studied medicine in Turkey, attended the Sorbonne in Paris. Two years ago she got out of a taxi on Istanbul's waterfront and was about to board ship for Marseille when the political police grabbed her. On her person the cops found three monthly reports of clandestine Communist operations (Communism has long been barred in Russia-hating Turkey) and other incriminating documents. Sevim...
More suspects were brought in. According to the pre-trial testimony, Sevim Tari had been sent by Moscow from Paris to "guide" secret Communist operations in Turkey. They counted on her good social background to throw off suspicion. But she was so sure of herself that she failed to take adequate precautions. Said one of the cops: "She was a disaster for them, a godsend...