Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Treaty of Lausanne ended a state of war between Turkey and the Allied and Associated Powers. Japan's approval was necessary because she was an ally of the Entente Powers during...
Although Mustapha Kemal Pasha has encountered several serious obstacles in his campaign for the modernization of Turkey, he ean count at least one success to his credit. Some of the decisions of the Angora government have seemed impolitic to outsiders, and in his determination to interfere with the foreign schools in Constantinople the Pasha was hardly diplomatic; but the recently discovered tolerance of the average Turkish citizen toward the moving pictures indicates that Occidentalism is growing faster than the world has been led to suspect. Whether this latest development is due to the efforts of Kemal, of whether...
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...pledge ourselves to the maintenance of the capitulations in Turkey, and are opposed to any new treaty, such as that recently negotiated by the Secretary of State and now before the Senate, subjecting American citizens to the jurisdiction of the corrupt and stagnant native Turkish courts...
Britons and Turks were reported to be preparing for a conference in Constantinople "to thrash out the Mosul question." When the Allied differences with Turkey were patched up at Lausanne (TiME, Aug. 6) one of the problems left over for further discussions was that of Mosul. The technical argument over Mosul is: Does it belong to Iraq or to Turkey? The real trouble is much deeper than that. Mosul has become in diplomatic language a mere pseudonym for oil, because around that city are rich oil fields. Britain has a protectorate over Iraq and supports the Iraquians (Arab inhabitants...