Word: turkishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Turkish Three-Year Plan (see below) launched by swank little Premier Ismet Pasha...
...Abolition of the Arabic alphabet and substitution of the Latin in a nation-wide drive so intensive that Dictator Kemal himself taught alphabet classes of high Turkish officials...
...that hour the Turkish Grand National Assembly proclaimed the Republic with Kemal as President and entitled him to unlimited reelection. The genius of his program lay in that he renounced all the former non-Turkish possessions of the Ottoman Empire-Syria. Palestine, Mesopotamia, Arabia, Egypt. Unlike new Germany, new Turkey is led by men who have resolutely forgotten the past. From the start President Kemal, like President Roosevelt ten years later, launched his country on a policy of economic nationalism. Incidental to this basic policy, and far more spectacular, were his Westernizing reforms, his turning of Turkey's face...
...Abolition of the Califate (Islamic Papacy) and perpetual banishment from Turkey of all members of the once royal and spiritual House of Osman. 1925-Turkish men coerced to wear the hat instead of the fez, Turkish women encouraged to drop the veil. (To pious males hat-wearing caused spiritual agony, since the brim of the hat prevented them from touching their foreheads to the floor in prayer and Islamic ritual demands that one pray covered...
...rush job, the Turkish Three-Year Plan is intended to lay a foundation for future industrialization rather than to achieve it in 1934. Under Dictator Kemal, as under Dictator Stalin, mass propaganda is rousing backward Turks toward new horizons. Typical is the vow which every Turkish school child must repeat daily...