Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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French editors have grown daily more apoplectic at the hardihood of Turkey in detaining under arrest in Constantinople one Lieutenant Desmons (TIME, Sept. 20 et ante) commander of the French steamer Lotus which collided some weeks ago with a Turkish cargo boat on the high seas...
French editors grew indignant en masse last week at the scandalous attitude of Turkey in retaining under arrest in Constantinople one Lieutenant Demons, chief officer of the French steamer Lotus, which collided with a Turkish coalship on the high seas (TIME, Sept...
President Mustafa Kemal Pasha of Turkey: "I continued last week to exterminate my enemies. Abdul Kadir Bey, one time Governor of Angora, was hanged during the week for participating in a plot to assassinate me which I am thought to have trumped up. To date, 18 of my political enemies have been disposed of by hanging through this strategem (TIME, Sept...
These banks have accumulated much business properties in the chief cities, and have profited from their valuations enhanced by passing years. They are financing more Russian business than banking competitors of any other nationality. They are in Egypt, Turkey, the Balkans. No one could underbid them for a recent offering of Belgian railway bonds, and, it is whispered; with a mischievous wink, at the dining tables of the Hotel Adlon in Berlin, that these German bankers have had the audacity to offer loans to both the Belgian and French governments...
...jailed in defiance of international law when the Lotus recently rammed and sank in a heavy fog the Turkish ship Bozkourd. Simultaneously it was announced that M. Emile Daeschner, onetime French Ambassador to the U. S. will be despatched shortly to succeed M. Albert Sarraut as French Ambassador to Turkey. M. Daeschner will be the first Ambassador to occupy the new French Legation at the nouveau capital of Turkey, Angora, a town still chiefly com posed...