Word: turkishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Secretive Kamal Ataturk,* "Father of the Turks," is close and noncommittal in his dictatorship. Turkish consulates abroad last week had not even yet been officially informed that famed old General Ismet Inonu, dismissed as Premier, had been officially replaced last month by former Economics Minister Jelal Bayar (TIME, Oct. 11). Since Premier Bayar's elevation, Turkish politicians have been anxiously watching him for any indication of what new policies the Dictator picked him to carry out in the Parliament which sat last week. About all they have seen the Premier do is to stand respectfully at the elbow...
Ousted ex-Premier Ismet Inonu was slated to be elected last week president (speaker) of the Grand National Assembly, which was slated to adopt a new Turkish constitution. But events proved how little even the best informed Turks know the mind of their masterly Father. An obscure wheelhorse, Abdulhalik Renda was re-elected to the Assembly's presidency, and its members listened in vain for Kamal Ataturk to mention a new constitution...
...first time those enthusiastic references to Soviet Russia which the Father of the Turks started making some years ago. The dispute between France and Turkey over the administration of Alexandretta was settled through the League of Nations by giving Alexandretta "autonomy," i.e., turning it over to its Turkish majority (TIME, Feb. 15), and the Dictator declared last week: "There is no doubt that France will continue to act in good faith...
...After changing his name and titles more often than any other Dictator, the Turkish leader today is named Kamal Ataturk and calls his system of government the Kamalist...
After the victory of Sakarya in 1921 Mustafa Kemal Pasha was given by the Turkish Assembly the title Ghazi, meaning the "Victorious One," and for several years as Dictator he was called El Ghazi...