Word: turkishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Armenian Christians of the Turkish Empire were accustomed to occasional persecution; under Abdul Hamid they had even suffered sporadic massacres. But in 1915, with Turkey at war and the Young Turks in power, they faced complete extinction. Dapper Enver Pasha, Turkey's Minister of War, planned nothing less. All Armenian villages were to be evacuated, the inhabitants driven far into the desert to concentration camps where plague and famine would finish off the survivors. Able-bodied men were to be sent to work on the roads; their job done, a firing squad would pay them...
Recently the Turkish consul at Odessa, sleek Raouf Bey, returned to Istanbul with 14 enormous trunks. This, the Turkish customs decided, was going several trunks too far. They obtained Dictator Kemal's permission to violate Consul Raouf's diplomatic immunity. When he was found to have brought in 27 fur coats, four cases of the best caviar and other salable Soviet goods, Consul Raouf was fined $2,100, sent to jail last week for one year as a smuggler...
Nearly 100,000 peasants brought up the procession's rear in such native costumes as few countries besides Jugoslavia can produce. Her peasants of Turkish blood still wear the fez now banned in Turkey. With them strode Bosnians in scarlet dress and Herzegovinian mountaineers carrying their rifles upside down in mourning. Montenegro sent her Jugoslavian Cossacks...
...collections of Dürer, Rembrandt, Holbein, Rubens, Velasquez, and the world's finest Breughels. He may point to his Raphael Madonna as one of the world's very best. In one of his armor rooms, the finest save for Madrid's, he will see ancient Turkish bridles and reins studded with emeralds the size of walnuts. He will be able to handle the only absolutely authenticated Cellini in the world- an exquisite ebony, gold, and enamel saltcellar...
...poor but exceptionally gifted Persian youth, Omar Khayyam was with the Turkish army that routed the Emperor of Constantinople at Malasgird, saw his best friend killed there. Later as a student of mathematics he made such a reputation that the Sultan made him his astronomer. In his crude observatory Omar revamped the calendar, indulged in heretical speculations about the nature of the universe, tossed off unconsidered little rubai (quatrains) when he felt off his feed. A tragic love affair turned him from an ambitious scientist into a world-weary philosopher. Riches and power were heaped on him by the Sultan...