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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28. 10$
Student Says Turkey Is A Major. Red Stumbling Block
Bv KOJI SATO
Ali Sakir Aganoglu. Turkish exchange student at KU., believes that his country may prove a real stumbling block to Red aggression in the Middle East.
Far from being embittered by the severe Turkish casualties in Korea, that country has offered reinforcements to the United Nations, he said.
Aganoglu came from Turkey to KU, in September last year. He was graduated from the School of Economics and Social Sciences of Ankara University in 1938, and has worked as an assistant director of the Istanbul Branch of the Agricultural Bank of the Turkish Republic. He served in the Turkish army twice during the last war and is a first lieutenant in reserve. He is a graduate student, majoring in economics at K.U.
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Clarice Bloom, home economist for the Wheat Flour institute, spent Monday and Tuesday in the department of Home Economics, speaking and showing slides to classes.
Miss Bloom showed slides to the Nutrition classes illustrating a weight reduction study, made at the University of Nebraska.
Tuesday Miss Bloom talked to the Foods III class on the work of the Wheat Flour Institute. The Institute, a division of the Millers' National Federation, represents various flour mills. The representatives show the public the use of flour in a balanced diet, and show that flour is one of the most economical foods and contributes to good health.
Miss Bloom's job consists of contact work (with home economics people, particularly those in colleges or business home economists. In addition to giving pictorial demonstrations she actually demonstrates bread-baking.
Two types of jobs are available in the Chicago division of the institute, Miss Bloom said. These include working in the test kitchen or in the editorial and publicity department. These is a demand for the latter, she said.
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"The Turkish people's antagonism against Russia has its roots in her long history and Turkey wants to be a sincere member of U.N." Aganoglu said.
"The Turkish or Ottoman Empire fought many wars against Russia during the past 200 years. Russia attacked the Ottoman empire again and again, because she wanted to gain a port in the Mediterranean sea. During World War I, the two countries fought again." Aganoglu explained.
"In 1945, when Turkey had to defend herself alone because Great Britain was tired of war. Russia proposed to hold the Turkish straits together and to annex two countries to eastern Turkey. The Turkish government answered promptly and
strongly 'No.' This again strengthened our people's antagonism against the Russian expansionism.
"Communism," he said, "is a system which is quite against Turkish society, customs, religion, and, most of all, the strong national spirit." Here he cited the great progress made in his country in the last 20 years by adopting western civilization and democracy.
"After the Independence war in 1920-22, the first president, Kemal Ataturk, introduced sweeping reforms in the Turkish political, economic, educational and social life. Turkey also adopted a democratic constitution.
"Among the conspicuous reforms," he said, "were the adoption of the Latin alphabet in place of the Arabic alphabet, which Turkey had used since the 11th century. This change together with the educational reform elevated the people's literacy from 18 per cent to 50 per cent in 20 years."
turkey is a good example for all undeveloped countries in the Middle East and Asia, for Turkey showed that a nation could come up as a
free, strong and democratic nation, conquering many obstacles inside and outside."
"This free nation," he emphasized, "does not like Communism."
Showing recent papers and letters from home, he explained how serious the problem of refugees from Communist Bulgaria is now.
The Bulgarian government forced the Bulgarian citizens of Turkish race to leave the country. That government has taken away all the property of the deportees. Thus, during the last four months 60,000 of these refugees were received in Turkey. The Turkish government has to settle these poor immigrants into various areas in the country. This is now a great social and financial problem of our government.
"My family recently wrote me that they adopted a refugee woman as a maid. Even through these letters and papers from home, I can see that the public spirit against Communism is very high.
"After the last war Turkey was among the nations which believed that world peace and security can be attained only by the U.N. Therefore Turkey wants to be a single member of the U.N. and tries to fulfill a duty in this world unity,
"When the U.N. security council asked Turkey to join in the fight against the invading forces in Korea, Turkey sent a brigade of about 5,000 men. This Turkish brigade has been singled out in world press and radio for its invaluable contribution. But 25 per cent of them were killed or wounded.
"Now eight hundred reinforcements have sailed from a Turkish port for Korea. This announcement was received with applause by the delegates to the Democratic (government) party convention which was held at Izmir.
Addressing the convention, Premier Adnan Menderes declared that Turkey was determined to stand by its initial action in sending troops to Korea. He said, "though we were faced with the same situation a thousand times, our decision would still be the same."
Aganoglu said that Turkey has a 600,000 man army, 30,000 man air force, 30,000 man navy and many reserves.
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