Word: turkishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...James's who had stood faithfully by the Grey Wolf's side when Atatürk was waging a desperate uphill battle to save Turkey from dismemberment after the World War; and Sabiha Gökgen, one of his five adopted daughters, who is a Turkish Air Force pilot.* One grief-stricken friend. Salih Bozuk, put a pistol to his head, critically wounded himself...
...part of his Westernization program, was canceled in Turkey on the night the President died, and nowhere could one buy raki, the anisette drink which Atatürk often guzzled for hours on end. Istanbul burst out with such a display of the red-with-white-crescent Turkish flags that although all were at half mast, they made the city look en fete instead of in grief, and the Government asked that all flags except those on public buildings be withdrawn...
...when it was decreed that all Turks must have a last name, General Ismet Pasha took his from the Battle of Inönü, in 1921, in which he commanded the Turkish troops who routed the Greeks. Prime Minister for twelve years, Ismet Inönü was often called a martinet, is regarded as a brilliant, stubborn bureaucrat. As chaste in his personal life as Atatürk was lecherous, he is violently nationalist. He represented Turkey at two crucial international conferences at Lausanne and Montreux, getting for Turkey virtually all she wanted. French and British statesmen railed...
...Atatürk's daughters, however, were invariably plain girls. The Ghazi, not particular in his choice of women, preferred painted cheeks and lips. By giving talented young women the protection of his name he could set them to work safely on jobs never before attempted by a Turkish woman and thus symbolize women's new freedom...
...capped hills were ablaze with light for a three-day and three-night celebration last week. Chains of brightly colored bulbs stretched from minaret to minaret of the treasured Mosques of Ayasofia, Suleiman the Magnificent, Mohammed the Conqueror. Below, in the four-mile stretch of the Golden Horn the Turkish fleet lay at anchor, with ship searchlights playing nightly over the city...