Word: turkish
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...last week in Istanbul, the portals of Uskudar prison snapped shut on Sahap Balcioglu, editor and publisher of Kim (Who), a Turkish weekly newsmagazine. Barring commutation of his sentence, which is unlikely, Balcioglu will spend the next 16 months in Uskudar...
Hedges of Spears. The 60-room clubhouse, formerly the British-owned Mawingo Hotel, overlooks a heated, kidney-shaped swimming pool and some of the most magnificent scenery in Africa. There are Turkish baths, massage parlors, hairdressing salons, and big freezing rooms in case anyone leaves the amenities long enough to shoot a buck or gazelle. Inside, the club is alive with jungle plants and palm trees; the entrance to the bars and wine vaults are framed by hedges of African spears. Each room has its own bath and fireplace. A special club airplane is provided for anyone in a hurry...
...Gibb, University Professor and heads of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and by Frank M. Gross, Jr., Curator of the Semitic Museum, to expand the scholarly base of that department in order to accommodate studies that are related to, but nor included in, Semitic culture. These include Iranian, Turkish, and other such fields of research...
...Author Thayer also believes that the style of Russian diplomacy has not fundamentally changed since the 16th century, when a local Cossack leader addressed the Turkish Sultan Mahomet III in a letter whose milder passages read: "We will lick you on land and sea, you hostile son-of-a-bitch . . . You Alexandrian goatherd, you Babylonian cook, you Macedonian wagonmaker, Jerusalem's traitor, Kamchatka cat, Podolian villain, swindler of the world, and evildoer of the underworld...