Word: turkish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Turkish days of the week...
Juma is the Turkish sabbath. Because it falls on Friday, Turkish business houses with international connections and the government itself are out of step with the rest of the world three days a week...
After spending a quiet Juma, your Turkish official comes down to the foreign office bright and early Jumartesi, only to find that London, Paris and New York are in no mood to answer his cables because they are knocking off for Saturday afternoon. The next day, Pazar, third day of the Turkish week, is simply hopeless for the poor official, because throughout Christendom it is Sunday...
...Symphony concerts of Friday, November 15, and Saturday, November 16, the program is: Spohr's "Nocturne and Turkish Music for Wind Instruments", "Burma" and "Java" by Eichheim, and Strauss' "Sinfonia Domestica...
...turn from youthful King Alexander, a revolution will infallibly result. Even in Turkey, where the Latin alphabet was "successfully" imposed on a docile people two years ago by Dictator-President Mustafa Kemal Pasha, its practical adoption has lagged so grievously that last year there was published in all the Turkish Republic one, and only one, book...