Word: turkishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...every Turkish city and major town the dawn came up one day last week with the earth-shaking thunder of a 100-gun artillery salute. Three days and nights of sleepless rejoicing, songs, dancing in the streets and every sort of Turkish whoopee began by express order of the Ghazi Mustafa Kemal, blond "Victorious Mustafa the Excellent...
...tenth birthday of the Turkish Republic had dawned and Turks had much to rejoice over. Amid world depression they are prospering. Their budget balances. Private deposits in Turkish banks have octupled since the Young Turks ousted the last Sultan, flabby, sponge-brained Mohammed VI. This year Turkey is on the second lap of a Three-Year Plan of economic development supervised by U. S. experts. To her tenth birthday party last week came the second most notable man in the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, dashing Red War Minister Klimentiy ("Klim") Voroshilov who is definitely more popular though less potent...
...Ankara and in every other Turkish city, town and hamlet Turks have been taught to sing during the past month a brand new "Tenth Anniversary March of the Republic" with which they greeted "Klim...
...Years ago General Mustafa the Excellent and his Young Turks had al ready beaten the Allies at the Dardanelles, ousted the Sultan and beaten the Greeks (whom David Lloyd George set against them) before they proceeded to found the Turkish Republic...
...subtleties and aesthetic delights of gardening to the pastime of war, and his book "Cry Havoc," was the result. In several chapters there he points out with deserving bitterness the irony involved when British soldiers were smeared all along the Dardenelles by British-made guns sold to the Turkish government, when Germany and France exchange arms shipments through Switzerland during the war, or when revolutions and wars are fomented in small countries to drum up trade for guns. It will be exceedingly interesting to see how far the Radical Socialist Party (which is very much more conservative than its name...