Word: turkishly
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...crisis in domestic diplomacy for Turkey's Ambassador to the U.S., Mehmet Munir Ertegun. His sons Nesuhi and Ahmet had conceived a most un-Turkish enthusiasm for caz and yaniturku - Turkish for the jazz and blues music of the American Negro...
Died. Shukri el Kuwatly, 76, Syrian nationalist, a hawk-faced firebrand who fought against Turkish rule before World War I, then against the French until independence in 1941, two years later became Syria's first President, only to be overthrown in 1949 and forced into a five-year exile after which he returned as President until 1958 when he and Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser merged their nations into the long-cherished but ill-fated United Arab Republic; of a heart attack; in Beirut...
...Syrian city of Aleppo. When the mobs set fire to the building, they escaped by sliding down ropes dropped from the back windows. With the help of Syrian security cops, they were able to hire taxis and, with six other Americans and Britons, made it safely to the Turkish border...
...handled 118,000 messages last year, are Interpol's branch offices, called National Central Bureaus. The bureaus are manned by local police whose sole job is trading Interpol information with other bureaus and with Saint-Cloud. One payoff for Americans: interdiction of the narcotics pipeline that runs from Turkish farmers to French labs to New York pushers-pushing the price of an illicit kilo of opium from $500 to as much as $400,000 worth of heroin along the way. "Thanks to marvelous harmony between the world's police forces," says Rome-based U.S. Narcotics Agent Michael Picini...
...other buildings have been declared "national monuments." Such quaint old towns as Berat and Gjinokaster have been made "museum cities." There, as they have for decades, leathery old peasants in white fezzes and baggy black trousers shuffle through narrow whitewashed streets or huddle in local cafes, sipping muddy Turkish coffee. In the fields outside of town, women still wear brightly ornamented costumes...