After the Young Turk Revolution of 1908, which brought the Committee of Union and Progress to power, Şevket became commander of the 3rd Army at Salonika (Thessaloníki, now in Greece), in which capacity in 1909 he crushed a religious uprising against the Young Turk government, known as the 31st of March Incident, and deposed the sultan, who favoured a return to absolutism.
In Salonika, according to one account, he married a Torah scroll.It was not until 1648 that Sevi took himself properly speaking to be the messiah.
When the EU's leaders met in Greece on June 19th-21st to 19th-21st toconstitution's fireceivefthelaunconstitutionurity doctrine and hobnob with an array of Balkan leaders—they gathered in Porto Carras, a remote resort some 150km (94 miles) up the coast from Salonika.
Britain urged America to intervene.Constitutional clubThe European Union's leaders, meeting near Salonika in Greece, broadly agreed to a European draft constitution previously prepared at a convention chaired by a former French president, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing.
Allowed to vote for their leader for the first time (previous ones having been chosen by a parliamentary caucus), the party's rank and file plumped overwhelmingly for the backbencher from Salonika.
Back in Salonika, rioters staged the now almost ritualistic arson attack on a local branch of McDonald 's.The EUis hardly unique in regularly attracting thousands of peaceful anti-globalisation demonstrators and hundreds of violent hoodlums to its summits.
Mr Gulyaz says that the quality of the mosaics suggests they were probably done in the second or third century by a highly skilled itinerant artist whose work has also been found in Salonika and Syria.Despite the potential significance of the find, however, Mr Gulyaz has been unable to raise money to continue.
This deep slump has depressed the volume of industrial exports though the port of Salonika, and it will be a while before large numbers of Balkan citizens can afford to use the passenger ships that sail out of the harbour.Still, the very fact that Greek aspirations in the Balkans these days are more commercial than strategic is a change for the better.
So would Serbia, which wants to preserve its access to the Greek port of Salonika through the Vardar valley.No country is more eager to preserve Macedonia's sovereignty than the United States, which sees it as a buffer against a regional war that might even suck in two NATO members, Greece and Turkey.
Training, already ingeniously split between plain in Turin and vocational in Salonika, could no doubt be subdivided further: practical (Germany?), emotional (Poland?), theological (for Geneva, when one day even the Swiss come in), monarchical (Bulgaria) and so on.Pork-barrelling, of course, would stay in its proper home, Brussels.
He was sent to Salonika, where he caught acute malaria and then, after a further spell of recuperation in Blighty, served out the final months of the war in France.After being demobbed, he led a comparatively dull, respectable life.
