Word: turk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sevres between the Allies and Turkey. This movement finds favor with three Mediterranean peoples: Italy has from the beginning been wary of the rise of her new neighbor on the inland sea, and has cast longing eyes at the recent acquisitions of Greece. France--the traditional friend of the Turk--misses the privileges granted to her financiers by the old Turkish government, and is jealous of British influence in the Near East, particularly at Constantinople. The recovery of Turkish territory lost in Thrace and Asia Minor is the aim of both the Sultan's government on the Bosphorus...
...Mohammedan world regards the Sultan as a usurper, and renounces all allegiance, civil or religious, to the Ottoman Empire. Mohammedan troops from India and Algeria fought not only against those Germans, but also against those of their own faith. When Mecca passed out of the power of the Turk, not a murmur was heard; yet Mecca, far more than Constantinople, has always been regarded as the center of Islam...
...endeavored to maintain the hopeless anachronism of Turkish rule; and for over a century that policy has brought dissension and wars upon Europe, and terrible suffering upon the subject races of the Empire. It is time for new methods. By the recent Armenian massacres, if by nothing else, the Turk has demonstrated his utter incapacity for any form of sovereignty. Whatever may be the fate of Constantinople, tl Turkish political power must...
...world was horrified by the Bulgarian, Atrocities, and Gladstone aroused Europe with his stirring denouncement of "the unspeakable Turk." For a time it seemed that humanity would come into its own and that civilization would clean up this dark corner of Europe. But the selfish interests that prevailed in the Congress of Berlin, left the Turk unrestrained in his bloody work. Now, more than forty years later, the phrase "Armenian massacre" has become so trite that we hardly give it a passing thought...
Owen Wister '82 is the author of a brief introduction to "Caught by the Turks," a thrilling narrative of war-time adventures as told by Captain Francis Yates-Brown and published by the Macmillan Company. Captain Yates-Brown relates the story of his three years' imprisonment at the hands of the "terrible Turk" with a vigor which Mr. Wister finds indicative of further talent...