Word: turkeys
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...cover subject of TIME'S fourth issue, back in 1923, was Turkey's late, great Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. Since then, TIME has followed Turkey's drive to become a modern nation with many a continuing story, this week stops for a comprehensive look at the man many consider the greatest Turk since Ataturk. See FOREIGN NEWS, The Impatient Builder...
Well before his plane touched down in Turkey for the Baghdad Pact council meeting it had become clear that U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles was going to have to do something more than his official role as U.S. "observer" suggested. Some of the pact's Middle East members had decided that there was not much point in belonging to a club that offered few, if any, tangible benefits. What Iran wanted from the pact, its delegates made clear, was U.S. economic and military aid-and plenty...
...Turkey's Premier Adnan Menderes, a man who does not scare easily, took Nuri seriously enough to fly off to Baghdad for a hasty conference with Iraq's influential Crown Prince Abdul Illah; on his return, he looked anything but happy. The U.S. quietly withdrew an advance text of Dulles' opening speech. Plainly, the Baghdad powers had reached a crossroads of confidence, would not be content with the platitudes of sympathy and support...
Five hundred miles southwest of them, in Turkey's capital, the statesmen of six nations-Britain, Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan and the U.S.-gathered this week for the fourth meeting of the Baghdad Pact Council. Among those assembled in Ankara's still-unfinished Parliament Building were Britain's Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd, Iraq's durable ex-Premier and Strongman Nuri asSaid, and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, representing the nonmember U.S. as an observer. Presiding as host was small (5 ft. 6 in., 156 Ibs.), chipmunk-cheeked Adnan Menderes, Premier of Turkey, whose driving force...
Leonid Ilychev, the Foreign Ministry spokesman, used the news conference as a springboard for a denunciation of the Baghdad Pact and especially of Turkey, the host country for the pact meeting next week. Turkey, he said, had taken an especially aggressive stand against Russia at the NATO meeting. Turkey is a member both of the Baghdad and NATO pacts...