Word: trabzon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jets had scrambled into the sky for a look at an intruder inside Russia's southern border. It was, in fact, an unarmed, four-engined U.S. Air Force C-130 transport carrying 17 men. In flying a course from Trabzon to Van, Turkey in high winds and bad weather, the C-130 had strayed over the Turkish "fence" into Communist territory, possibly confused by high-strength directional signals from Soviet radio stations. Following the vectors from their own ground radar stations, the Russians sped toward the target area, barking pilots' combat chatter over the radio. The monitors caught...
...Ottoman Empire in 1924, Turkish women by the thousands have come out from behind the veil, taken up short skirts and modern ideas. Polygamy was outlawed. But in Istanbul last week there sounded a still, small voice from the past. Lawyer Osman Nuri Lermioglu, a Democratic Deputy from Trabzon on the Black Sea, presented Parliament with a draft bill that would allow a Turk legally to have two wives, but only if the first wife were ill or sterile. To prove that he was no Terrible Turk with a passion for bringing back the good old days of male supremacy...