Word: turkish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...independent Senator without party affiliation. Chances are that Urguplu was picked by President Cemal Gürsel only as a temporary Premier while a political battle is fought out between the two real antagonists on the Turkish political scene-the Republican Party's Inönü and the Justice Party's Suleyman Demirel, who brought Inönü down with an opposition attack in Parliament...
Since the 1960 overthrow and hanging of Strongman Adnan Menderes, Turkish politics has basically consisted of a feud between army-backed Premier Ismet Inönü and the opposition Justice Party formed by Menderes' resurgent followers. In municipal elections 15 months ago, the Justice Party won a startling 46% of the vote. Last week Menderes' ghost was on the go again...
...long westward advance won him a colonelcy and his own regiment. He was a major general at 22, a field marshal before he was 30. In his 54 years of service, the Emperor's new recruit was to liberate Central Europe after a century and a half of Turkish rule, to establish Habsburg hegemony in Italy, and then to hold it and the rest of the Holy Roman Empire against a far more powerful and expansionist France...
...invoked by nearly all parties to the struggle to support whatever they were temporarily seeking to achieve-by all Cypriots to justify revolt against British rule, by Archbishop Makarios to support an independent government for the whole island, by Greek Cypriots as foundation for enosis with Greece, and by Turkish Cypriots for partition of the island and double enosis, union of one part with Greece and the other with Turkey...
...which were a huge harem. Next to women, Saud liked air-conditioned Cadillacs best, and next to Cadillacs, intrigue. In contrast, Feisal was almost a puritan: though thrice married, he lives with only one wife at a time and, for the past 20 years, his consort has been Turkish-educated Princess Iffat. He speaks fluent French and English as well as Arabic, and has tried to use his country's oil millions for the benefit of the people...