Word: turk
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...indifference, has resulted in the common misconceptions about India, and usual failure to appreciate true values in Indian affairs, according to Mr. Hossain. "The average American's idea of India is a place where elephants roam about and fortune-tellers line the streets; just as his idea of a Turk is a person who is constantly either wallowing in polygamy, or cutting the throats of Christians...
...first two children. On the third day, now 60 years ago, a boy was born and a priest named Yarotheos (old god) on account of his miraculous powers baptized him, saying: "I baptize, thee Eleutherios (Liberty), for thou shalt deliver our long suffering Crete from the tyranny of the Turk...
Thus the dry era, put into force by the Turk Nationalists, was also ended by them; although the Koran expressly forbids alcoholic stimulant...
...Slavia. Premier Ismet Pasha of Turkey also proffered his felicitations. Henry Morgenthau, head of the International Loan Commission for the Succor of Greek Refugees, an ex-U. S. Ambassador to Turkey, likewise congratulated M. Venizelos. Speaking at a dinner in Athens, Mr. Morgenthau recalled his efforts to deter the Turks from "massacring Christians;" he deplored the fact that Turkey had been put in the position to win the Anatolian War (1921-22) by the transfer of French and Italian arms; he recounted his efforts in Britain at the time of the sack of Smyrna (1922) "to arouse public opinion...
...Gonatas-Plastiras government rode into power in 1922 on the backs of a revolting army and a wave of revulsion of popular feeling against a king who had refused to join the Allies and made a mess of a campaign against the Turk. To make their position quite safe, the Revolutionists proceeded to execute the governing ministers and to get rid of King Constantine. Evidently then believing that they had better "make haste slowly," they invited Constantine's son to take the throne for awhile. Now, feeling with some reason that the new king had a hand in the abortive...