Word: turkish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Throat and Backbone. Turkey was defiant. Recalling earlier Russian demands in Armenia and at the Dardanelles, General Kiazim Kara Bekir said Turks would fight for every inch. He added: "The world must know that the Straits form the throat of the Turkish nation and the Kars Plateau its backbone." The Turkish National Assembly at once voted his army more funds...
...Russian press growled that the Turkish Government had given police protection to the rioters and used the incident to build up its pressure for a more "friendly" government in Turkey. Observers, who had seen the same thing happen elsewhere, waited for a Russian-controlled political party to spring up in Turkey...
Down Once. Black George, founder of the line, left his swineherd's hut to become the scourge of Serbia's Turkish masters. He was a choleric, heroic breeder of pigs and rebellion. He loved corn pone, plum brandy and killing (with his own hands he slew 125 men who provoked his anger; he stabbed his stepfather, hanged his brother...
Down Twice. Black George's son, Alexander, staged a comeback in 1842, steered a fitful course through Turkish, Austrian and Russian intrigue. For 16 years he was lucky. Then, after barely escaping assassination, he was deposed...
...companies could drill in Iraq only by joining the British-controlled Iraq Petroleum Co. and conforming to the Red Line pact. Under this pact, a member of Iraq Petroleum could drill in the Red Line area, which embraced most of Arabia and part of the old Turkish empire, only in partnership with the rest of I.P.C. As the British did not want to drill, they thus kept the U.S. companies from drilling...