Word: turkish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chance of settling the Turkish question appeared during the Crimean War, and again in 1878, but each time the conservative policy of the British Government, dictated by the fear of Russia's gaining Constantinople, preserved the integrity of the Turkish Empire, and perpetuated the almost absolute slavery of her subject people...
...also known that the Turkish people, oppressed by taxation, and driven to war against their will, would have welcomed the Allies as their liberators. And they will do the same now to any Power that will step in and take a hand in the bettering of their condition...
...supporters represent a nation which has suffered from Asiatic oppression for over 3000 years. Because the Turks desired the Treaty of serves dissolved and because the Greeks repudiated their former leader, Venizelos, the Allied Council seems to have taken advantage of Greece's position by encouraging the rise of Turkish power in Asia Minor. Such an event points to further subjection of the Greeks; so in defence of their liberties guaranteed by the League of Nations, they have entered into a war single-handed with the vain hope of solving their own problems...
...Gordon Dooley keep the audience laughing almost continually. These two brothers who are unusually versatile comedians appear first as vagrants in the court room scene, then as electricians who undertake to wire the house of a newly-wed couple, and finally as the leading man and "woman" in a Turkish harem...
...three Mediterranean peoples: Italy has from the beginning been wary of the rise of her new neighbor on the inland sea, and has cast longing eyes at the recent acquisitions of Greece. France--the traditional friend of the Turk--misses the privileges granted to her financiers by the old Turkish government, and is jealous of British influence in the Near East, particularly at Constantinople. The recovery of Turkish territory lost in Thrace and Asia Minor is the aim of both the Sultan's government on the Bosphorus and the Nationalists of Angora, who are capable of initiating no little trouble...