Word: zonguldak
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...voted to the Government by Parliament last month, Turkey seized the Krupp shipyards on the Golden Horn and dismissed 20 German technicians employed there outfitting two new Turkish submarines, together with 60 other Germans working at the Gremlik naval base, in an explosives factory at Kirikkale, and in the Zonguldak coal field. Other Germans made haste to pull up stakes, for now the handwriting on Turkey's wall was clear. Authoritative sources explained that the technicians' dismissal was necessitated by discovery of a sabotage plot. But one Turkish spokesman ominously said: "Spring is coming...
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