Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Turkey will never go to war unless it is for the recovery of Constantinople," said Moutebil Kemal, visiting Turkish architect, in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter yesterday afternoon...
...capital is not the greatest thing which has happened to Turkey. Our abolishment of imperialism, and the unification of the Turkish race, has been a blessing. Turkey used to be a country where all races were squabbling and fighting among themselves about religious and other differences. Now the other factions have won what they hoped would be their independence. Turkey has abolished her caliphate, and the state, not the church, rules. We are now a democratic republic, which is ready to take advice, but not orders, from western civilization...
...Kemal now turned to the subject of prohibition, which he said was in the same state in Turkey as in this country...
...Before the abolishment of the caliphate in Turkey, our religion and our conscience kept us away from liquor. Now the law forbids the Turks to imbibe, but we can get the stuff if we want on the sly. But the problem of bad, poisonous alcohol is just the same as in the United States. I will say, though, that the idea inherent in a Turk for centuries that he shall not drink or gamble because his religion so demands, still persists. He believes that drink leads toward degeneration of his race. His religion works for higher ideals, as any creed...
Americans Welcome in Turkey...