Word: turkishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Palestine, Syria, Mesopotamia and at Gallipoli. Badly defeated, their country saved from dismemberment only by the vigorous leadership of the late Kamal Atatürk, the Turks came through the War with a profound distrust of German alliances. They quickly made friends with Russia, traditional enemy of the Turkish Sultanate, and moved continually toward greater friendship with Britain...
...same time, in Ankara the Kamutay (Turkish parliament) unanimously approved the alliance. Premier Refik Saydam told the deputies that Turkey had once thought that the country's best course was to remain neutral, but that recent aggressions in the Balkans had made neutrality impossible. Not forgotten, moreover, was the fact that Italy possesses the heavily armed Dodecanese Islands, only a few miles off Turkey's mainland...
...once Sick Man of Europe has acquired such youthful vigor in the last 15 years that Turkey now has some 500 military airplanes and a standing Army of 200,000 well-trained men. Mistress of the heavily fortified Dardanelles and Bosporus, Turkey is an ally worth having, and the Turkish signature to the British-inspired Peace Front was a shock to former Ally Germany...
...Crown Princess Martha; Denmark's Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Ingrid; Sweden's Count Folke Bernadotte; Finland's Minister to the U. S. Hjalmar J. Procope; Rumania's Minister to the U. S. Radu Irimescu. At the opening of Turkey's two buildings Turkish Ambassador Mehmet Munir Ertegun fidgeted: "Turkey has spent more than it can afford on its exhibits...
...more of life than most stargazers. Scion of a distinguished line of European astronomers, he was born in Kharkov, Russia, where his ancestors had settled after emigrating from Germany. He studied astronomy at Kharkov's university, served in the Russian Army in the World War, fought on the Turkish front. He fought with the White Russians against the Bolsheviks, fled to Constantinople after the White Russian collapse. While hiding in a coal bunker he found a wad of Imperial Russian banknotes which would have made him rich a few years before but were then worthless. In Turkey, the young...