Word: turkish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Turkish progress under the kinetic impulsion of President Mustafa Kemal Pasha, the Ghazi, the Victorious One, was so rapid, last week, as to dazzle if not perturb Occidentals...
...Grand National Assembly at Angora (new Turkish Capital) rushed through a law whereby infants born in Turkey after Jan. 1, 1929 to foreign parents will be considered Turkish subjects. Probably never before has an Asiatic state dared to enact a law so distasteful to Occidental Motherhood...
Observers of the Young Turks' successful occidentalization of Turkey marveled, once more, at the docility of the Turkish masses, which have abandoned the fez, ceased to contract polygamous marriages, and now seem prepared to alter the fundamental rites of their religion-all this within ten years...
...Excellency Nedjati Bey, Turkish Minister of Education, ordered last week 500 copies of a book by a U. S. Negro which has been translated into Turkish and published by the International College at Smyrna. Book: Up From Slavery. Negro: the late Booker T. Washington...
...favorite monarch, he now weaves around this "Sun King's" favorite hunting companion a somewhat laborious tale of French colonization in Quebec, complete with bloody Indian skirmishes and pious persecution of heretics. As for love interest, 8-year-old Countess Palladine, the sole survivor of a lurid Turkish massacre, is rescued thrillingly by a young English freelancer. Her gratitude very shortly develops into precocious passion, which brings her to him years later in the New World. Author Chambers bases his tale on contemporary chronicles...