Word: turkish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...white prancer. Biblical scenes like "Jacob's Dream" or "The Parting of the Red Sea" were common and there were a few uncommon banners like one showing "The Storming of Jaffa," a bizarre scene with British soldiers climbing the city's walls and staring into the suspended smoke of Turkish muskets...
Stefan Kanfer's review of Passage to Ararat, by Michael J. Arlen [Aug. 18], was excellent and caught every vibrant note expressed by Mr. Arlen in his book. Turkish governments have always denied the massacre of the Armenians; and when they could not deny it, they tried to justify it by comments similar to those of the Turkish Minister of the Interior in 1918 who replied to American protests by saying: "Those who are innocent today might be guilty tomorrow...
...sweeps across the hills, torturing and killing no one knows how many millions. In 1910, a recent Oxford graduate named Arnold Toynbee meticulously described the "fiendish" mutilations and abasements. As late as 1918 Henry Morgenthau, U.S. Ambassador to Turkey, protested the mass killings of Armenian women and children. The Turkish Minister of the Interior gave a blanket reply to such plaintiffs: "Those who were innocent today might be guilty tomorrow...
...totally relaxed," he said last week. "I'm lucky to be here now where the action is." Wearing the inevitable blue striped shirt, the white handkerchief tucked in his suit pocket, he continued to move around the back lots of power. He helped get yet another try for Turkish military aid back on the tracks in the Senate. He was the one who alerted the White House on the troubles over extending the Voting Rights Act. He helped along Ford's policy interests on energy and taxes while the President was off in Helsinki. Rocky could claim...
...Mere Sideshow. The only really angry fight at the conference was between Turkey and Greece over Cyprus. The Turks were furious that Archbishop Makarios was there representing Cyprus (instead of a figure who would somehow represent both the Greek and Turkish communities) and stormed out of the conference hall while he was speaking. Later the Turks announced that they would sign the Helsinki declaration, known as the "Final Act," with a unilateral reservation that none of its provisions would be valid for Cyprus until a "legitimate representative" of the island republic had signed. During a private meeting, Ford offered Turkish...