Word: turkish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fast Russian ships, packed tight as troop transports with tens of thousands of Armenians, have been shuttling for the last three months from Mediterranean ports through the Dardanelles toward Russia. One of the ships, the former Italian liner Saturnia (rechristened Rossia), brought gasps from disconsolate Turkish citizens on Istanbul's docks: it was the biggest vessel ever to pass through the Bosporus...
...Russian and Turkish soldiers who man their common frontier have evolved even in this ticklish period a code of ethics. As they march along either side of the river, the Russian soldiers turn their backs when the Turkish soldiers pass, and the Turks do the same when the Russians pass. Some of the more boisterous Turks yell across to the Russians. But the Russians stolidly, silently continue their...
...whom do the .districts rightfully belong? Zinder told of an unlettered but wily Turkish mayor of Erzurum, largest town in the region, who just before World War I tried to give a convincing answer to a British investigating committee. The old mayor was bored by a day-long statistical and ethnical analysis of the Turkish and Armenian cases. Brusquely he cut short the discussion and led the delegates to the local Armenian cemetery. Then he showed them a much larger Turkish cemetery. "Figures like these," he said...
Although the new assembly probably will give Inönä another term as president, a basic change has occurred in Turkish political life. Two national figures, Bayar and 70-year-old Marshal Fevsi Cakmak, Turkey's most respected soldier, attacked the Government bitterly during the campaign. Bayar and Cakmak demand increased liberties and social legislation, but support the Government policy of resistance to Russian territorial demands. Their showing in this week's election is expected to encourage other leaders of Inönä's People's Party to break away...
...learn to play ping-pong properly, you can never hope to be a Leader of Men." Sacheverell was ruled by governesses and tutors to within an inch of his life. At four he was examining the architecture of Kensington Palace; at ten he was writing letters about Umbrian vases, Turkish armor, Stone Age remains...