TURKEY: Kamdl Atatiirk Kicks

Kamâl Atatürk Kicks

In the ancient Syrian city of Antioch last week a batch of League of Nations observers huddled on their hotel balcony while the street directly before them echoed with pistol shots, wild Turkish and Syrian yells, the thud of brickbats, groans. When police finally cleared the cobbled street, one slippered rioter was dead, eight others gravely injured.

All this was because the Turkish Dictator, hard-drinking but soberly-masterful Mustafa Kamâl Atatürk ("Father of the Turks"), is now kicking strenuously against the announced intention of France to grant a form of...

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