Word: turkish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Russia, don't sponge on my reputation, and change your name." After five months of fighting the Communists with the Ukrainian army during the 1918 revolution, young Boris escaped to the Black Sea, where he boarded a ship that eventually deposited him in New York with 14?of Turkish money in .his pocket. He celebrated his 20th birthday on Ellis Island...
...revolution began at midnight and was over within six hours. Shortly before dawn, radios rasped: "The Turkish armed forces have taken over the administra tion of the country." Thus, in a blink of history's eye, ended the ten-year rule of highhanded, dictatorial Premier Adnan Menderes...
...Keep Out of Politics." The Turkish army has long scrupulously observed the admonition of the late great Kemal Ataturk that the army should stay out of partisan politics. But it also remembered that Ataturk charged it with guarding the constitution. Its younger officers had watched with growing uneasiness as Menderes cut down critics and harassed the opposition Republican Party headed by Ismet Inonu, ex-President and longtime comrade-in-arms of Ataturk himself. Two months ago, Menderes directed the army to stop Inonu from going on a political barnstorming trip to Kayseri. The major ordered to halt Inonu...
...police used tear gas to disperse 6,000 anti-Menderes demonstrators shouting: "Freedom!" On hand was an honor guard of military cadets. They began singing Ataturk's favorite old marching song, which demonstrators have been singing since the first riots flared in Istanbul last month. "Long live the Turkish army!" shouted the crowd. "Long live the Turkish nation!" answered the cadets. Next day 500 cadets, soon joined by about 100 captains, majors and lieutenant colonels, marched singing through Ankara. When the Defense Minister called on them to disperse, the cadets shouted: "Why don't you resign?" Next year...
...next year, Romero recently got help from the government: a $1,950,000 loan and a guarantee on $4,500,000 that Romero plans to borrow in the U.S. Afterward, Romero will need another $6,500,000 for the trimmings-a hotel, a swimming pool, Turkish baths, and something called the multicinema, where seven small theaters will show the same film but at staggered times, so that the viewer can walk in any time. The fanciful project is Caracas' newest pride; thousands of cars bear spiral helicoid decals in tribute to the latest furbelow on an already spectacular skyline...