Word: turkish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...neutral for five years-how to plunge into World War II without getting too wet. This week President Ismet Inönü would convene the National Assembly, and if reports were true, break off diplomatic and economic relations with Germany. He would also offer the use of Turkish airfields to Allied planes, close the Straits to German ships, round up some 2,000 Nazi spies who, from their headquarters in Turkey, infest the entire Near East...
Meanwhile Ankara's war-sultry air was electric with facts and rumors. It was a fact that Turkey's Army was engaged in military maneuvers (scheduled some time ago). But conscription was still in the rumor stage. So were reports that all Turkish ships had been ordered into Turkish harbors. It was true that talks were going on among representatives of Turkey, the U.S., the U.S.S.R. and Great Britain, that Germany's nine-man economic mission were cooling their heels for nearly a month in Ankara...
...with the Allies. There was one report that Bulgaria and Turkey were discussing how to avoid hostilities, another to the effect that Turkey was planning to invade Bulgaria. Well might the Bulgarians worry. If the Turks were entering the war to fight, Bulgaria might become a Balkan battleground as Turkish armies attempted to smash their way up in the rear of groggy Rumania...
...revolution). He is low-voiced, restrained-and he wears rimless pinch-nose glasses (he served for five months as a machine gunner in the Ukrainian Army, then signed as seaman on a munitions ship bound for America-reached New York unable to speak English and with only 14? in Turkish money in his pocket. For months he worked as an engraver's assistant at $13 a week-lost his job when he asked for a $3 raise-made enough money to establish himself as an artist by shipping for five months on a Standard Oil tanker to South America...
...Kemal's son, Mehmed Rifat, a powerful politician, president of the Senate, and for a time Minister of Finance, sent his son Numan to a French lycée, then to Lausanne to study law. World War I was under way when Numan became third secretary of the Turkish legation at Vienna...