Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Peace? The veil has been lifted and Mustapha Kemal Pasha speaks for the Turkish nation: " We desire peace! " This is a propitious omen for the future of the new Turkish State, and, backed by real sincerity, it will indubitably raise the prestige of Turkey in the West. It is certainly a feather in the fezzes of Mustapha Kemal Pasha and Ismet Pasha, his Foreign Minister...
...Turks will ask for the settlement of the financial clauses by conversations outside the scope of the Treaty, thus facilitating an early peace. The Turks have, apparently, come round to the British point of view with regard to Mosul. They suggest that the Mosul question be settled amicably between Turkey and Great Britain within one year...
...Japan or Turkey...
...Tripoli, which has cleared the ground held by the rebels since 1915. In her last victory Italy gained important strategical positions which have given her control over the whole of her large colony, with a few unimportant exceptions. Italy came into possession of Tripoli during her war with Turkey, 1911-12. It was annexed in 1911, and in the Treaty of Ouchy, signed in October, 1912, Italian sovereignty was formally established...
Mustapha Kemal announced that hereafter statues of national heroes may be erected in Turkish cities. Immediate interest is aroused because this decision is in direct contravention of the teachings of the Koran, as interpreted in Turkey for the last 1,200 years. During that time sculpture which represented men or animals has been forbidden in all Mohammedan countries. In Turkey not even paintings or photographs have been permitted. Kemal's decision breaks with religion and ends a tradition...