Word: vashington
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vashington. It would be nonsense to describe Turkey as a democracy, yet Ataturk's successor, President Ismet Inb'nii, has guided his nation into a freer political climate than it has ever known before. In 1946 he ordered the republic's first multi-party elections. Last week he held his first press conference. The most important opposition to the government's Republican People's Party (RPP) is the Democratic Party, led by onetime Premier Celal Bayar, an old rival of Inonii. There have been frequent suppressions of the press, but newspapers still scream against...
...Inonii's bureaucracy, which rules by the collective and painfully slow decision of its thousands of ministers, secretaries, under secretaries and clerks. The consequences are best embodied in a popular Turkish word, yavas (take it easy). Exasperated Americans refer to Turkey's capital, Ankara, as ya-vashington...
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