Word: turk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Outside this titillating company stands the stolid Turk. He does not need to be sold on antiCommunism. U.S. aid moves him to sober appreciation, not to riot. He considers it a privilege to fight Communism in Korea-and there is no neutralism...
What Athenagoras brought to Istanbul from the U.S. was a passion for intergroup harmony. He saw that the antique antagonism between Turk and Greek, Moslem and Christian was a menace to the City of God as well as the City of Man, and he dedicated himself to ending...
...same three years, Turkey's tractors increased by 900%, farm acreage 25%, mileage of all-weather roads 100%, port capacity 250%, cotton output 300%. Yet these are the people of whom the Bulgar peasant used to say, making the sign of the cross: "No grass grows where the Turk's horse treads...
...still far from Ataturk's goals: 80% of its 21 million people live in mud huts in isolated villages, in half of which there are no primary schools. The currency is soft; inflation has doubled food prices. Much of the land is unfertilized and carelessly utilized. The Turk is poor: he gets a third of the meat that a meat-starved Briton received under austerity; only one in 2,000 owns an automobile. But Turkey's spirit is good, the country is stable, its directon is sound...
...people by the hand along the road until their feet are sure and they know the way," Ataturk had said. "Then they may choose for themselves and rule themselves. Then my work will be done." On his bronze statue overlooking the Golden Horn is another message to his people: "Turk! Be proud, hardworking and self-reliant...