Word: salonica
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...night five years ago, in the Greek city of Salonica, a bomb exploded outside the house where Kemal Ataturk, father of modern Turkey, was born. The Turkish state radio boomed the news that Greeks had done it. Turkish tempers, already exacerbated by the long quarrel with Greece over Cyprus, flared into a night of shameful violence against the 100,000 Greeks living in Istanbul. Within hours a mob armed with pickaxes and crowbars marched down Istanbul's Independence Avenue yelling "Cyprus is Turkish, not Greek!" A Greek Orthodox priest was scalped and another burned alive, 78 Greek churches were...
Zorlu returned from a London conference on the Cyprus issue convinced that the Turkish case required strengthening, told Premier Menderes and President Bayar that what was needed was some incident to spark a display of Turkish patriotic fervor. The plot to set off the Salonica bomb was then hatched...
...subsequent weeks the Menderes regime continued to blame the Greeks for the bomb in Salonica, the Communists for the riots in Istanbul. Koprulu's only part in the affair was to defend the government's action during debates in the National Assembly, though privately he had been critical...
...Casa de Suecia.) Accommodations in Greece are better this year. The King's Palace Hotel in Athens, which opened last November, is first class. The Aegean isles of Paros and Rhodes will have more facilities ($5 to $6 per double room), and the new highway between Larissa and Salonica has a new hotel in the shadow of Mount Olympus...
...Athens, Max Merten, once director of the Wehrmacht's administration and finance section and therefore the man who signed army orders concerning the disposal of 56,000 Jews from Salonica, drew a 25-year sentence...