Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...position at present is that the Allies-France well in the front-and the United States are insisting upon their rights in Turkey under the terms of the capitulation treaties. They are, however, willing to exchange these rights against guarantees in the new treaty, which, it is hoped, will result from the present conference. The Turks, with their usual barefaced equanimity, have met the Allied demands with the bland remark : " There are no capitulations; we abolished them in 1914. You have, therefore, nothing to exchange." The upshot of the matter is that the treaty was sent back to the experts...
...Student Volunteers will be addressed by Dr. Mark Ward, an eminent authority on Turkey, at a meeting in the Bettens Room, Phillips Brooks House, at 6.45 o'clock tonight. In addition plans will be made for the approaching meeting of the Student Volunteers of Greater Boston at Wellesley...
...decision of the Supreme Council of Allied Powers at San Remo (April 25, 1920) France was granted a mandate over Syria, which was formerly a province of Turkey-in-Asia...
...November 18, 1914, Britain declared a Protectorate over Egypt in order to prevent that country from joining (as Turkey did) the side of the Central Powers in the war. On February 28, 1922, the British Government announced that the Protectorate was abolished, but that there should be: maintenance of British Empire communications; defense of Egypt against foreign aggression; protection of foreign interest in Egypt and minorities; guarantees for British interests in the Sudan. On March 1, 1922, Sarwat Pasha formed an Egyptian Cabinet. And on March 16, Fuad, Sultan of Egypt, was proclaimed King Fuad I of Egypt?the first...
...Sultan; but on February 13, 1841, the Sublime Porte (Constantinople, the seat of the Sultan) made the government of the pashalik (territory governed by a Pasha) of Egypt hereditary in the family of Muhammed Ali, with the Turkish title of Vali (Viceroy). On June 12, 1867, the Sultan of Turkey authorized the change from Vali to the Persian-Arabic of Khedive, meaning prince or sovereign. This title was kept until 1914, when on December 19 the British deposed Abbās Hilmi because he supported the Kaiser, and installed Hussein Kāmil, the eldest living prince of the Muhammed Ali family...