Word: turkishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortnight ago. the Turkish Ministry of the Interior issued the following order for Istanbul...
...polls, in an election conducted by the League of Nations, to vote themselves a legislature. The predominant nationality of the legislature will profoundly influence the Sanjak's destiny. That this destiny was important to its neighbors as well as . the Sanjak, was plain last week. Turkish soldiers were reported concentrating on the northern border and French Foreign Legionnaires enforced martial law in Alexandretta and Antioch. Riots had broken out between tarbooshed, orthodox Moslem Arabs and European-hatted, free-thinking Turks...
Nestling in a mountainous region along the Turkish border on the eastern Mediterranean, the 1,500-square-mile district, is a true Levantine melting pot. The Sanjak contains substantial numbers of Turks, Alaouites, Arabs, Armenians, Kurds, Greeks and Circassians. Only two and a half hours by car from railway junction Aleppo, 200 miles from Damascus (see map), the Sanjak has one irresistible attraction for Great and Small Powers alike: the landlocked Gulf of Alexandretta, even in its undeveloped state one of the safest, best ports of the Levantine coast...
...agreed to relinquish her mandate in 1939, decided to split Syria into two parts (Syria and Lebanon), left the Sanjak to be governed from Damascus by Syrian "Arabs. For the Father of the Turks, the spectacle of a petty Arab nation, formerly a subject people, ruling over their oldtime Turkish masters was too much. He protested to France and the League. Twice he moved his troops to the border to "protect" his Sanjak children, once he held a military powwow on a border-bound train. Only his cautious prime minister, deaf, stubborn Ismet Inonii, persuaded him from ordering his soldiers...
Among the research projects which are always under way in the work-rooms of the Fogg Museum, the latest concerns the 11th century mosaics of the mosque of Santa Sophia at Istanboul. Freed in the last five years from their covering of Turkish plaster and decoration, these have proved to be the work of a master school, surpassing all the provincial mosaics which have hitherto been known. The Museum is now devising a method for making copies of them, as a record for students and an inspiration to artists, and the workshop has been conducting experiments on three different lines...