Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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First to feel the prickle of a noose was Dr. Nazim Pasha, founder of the Young Turk movement which overthrew "Abdul the Damned" (Abd-ul-Hamid II) in 1909, and dictated the government of Turkey as a Pan-Islamic oligarchy throughout the World...
...Young Turk Old Guard have never sympathized with President Kemal's dictatorial Europeanization of Turkey, have fought him tooth and nail by stealth. He, ruthless, has meted out no more and no less severe punishment to his enemies than they inflicted upon theirs in the days of Young Turk supremacy. President Kemal, though "Europeanized," has still the attributes of the "typical terrible Turk...
...Charge d'Affaires at Constantinople protested tn the Kemalist regime last week the arbitrary and unexplained closing by the Turkish police of a Baby Clinic, charitably financed by U. S. citizens including Admiral Bristol (TIME, Sept. 14) famed and able U. S. High Commissioner to Turkey. The Admiral, at whose lightest word Turks have learned to jump, was cruising in the Black Sea last week knew not that his Baby Clinic was menaced...
...Nice Turk. Last spring P. E. Bishop Manning of New York and many another bishop became indignant with memories of the "Unspeakable Turk" and his Armenian and Greek massacres. Some $80,000,000 in missionary investments had become futile; Christianity could not be taught in Turkey. They asked Senator Borah to oppose the U. S. signing the Lausanne Treaty with Turkey. He refused (TIME, April...
...that time P. E. Bishop Charles Henry Brent of Western New York agreed with them. But last week, after weeks of Turkish observation (in Turkey), he bravely declared that he had reversed his attitude. He had learned that U. S. residents in Turkey want the treaty, that the missionary schools are spreading what the Christian Century calls "untheological Christianity," that no Mohammedan had ever become a Christian proselyte and lived. Religious bickering is futile, to his mind...