Word: turkish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...point where some 100 of Menderes' Democratic partisans were gathered. But when the Premier climbed out, students rushed up to shout "Freedom!" Menderes gave up. Climbing into a third car, he rode away to the presidential palace and the end of the wildest automobile ride a Turkish Premier ever took...
Crying Treason. At week's end, it appeared that with the army's disciplined support. Menderes had put down the challenge. But the outburst expressed rising resentment among Turkish students and intellectuals against his strongman rule...
...even command the loyalty of those forces." By giving a committee summary powers to investigate and punish police and army men, Inonu argued, the Democrats had "inevitably" proclaimed doubts of the officers' loyalties. "Those who seek to establish a coercive regime must believe that the Turkish nation is imbued with less self-respect than Korea," he cried...
...walk 400 yards to Ankara's Ish Bank, a crowd of 5.000 formed quickly around him. They shouted "Hurriyet [Freedom]" and began singing the famed marching song that Turks sang at Samsun in 1919 when the late great Ataturk landed to launch the fight for an independent Turkish republic. But not for long. Truckloads of police rolled up and arrested 22 of the demonstrators...
...America, became a shoeshine boy and sand hog in New York (he worked on the Brooklyn Bridge), a cowboy in the U.S. West (he was fearless as a gun fighter, by his own account), a lawyer of sorts. He served as correspondent for several U.S. papers during the Russo-Turkish war-covering the hostilities from a brothel in Odessa, some say, though Harris insisted that he never left dashing General Skoboleff's side...