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...people last August. It was the second earthquake to sunder Turkey within five days; on July 22 about 100 people were killed and 300 injured in a series of shocks that struck 50 towns near Adapazari. Like previous Turkish quakes (see map), the latest disasters were located along the Anatolian Fault, a particularly lethal segment of the earthquake belts that coil around the globe. Along the Anatolian Fault, some 40,000 persons have lost their lives in eleven earthquakes since...
...shadow of a hanged man last week lay across the arid Anatolian plateau. It was that of Adnan Menderes, who was overthrown as Turkey's Premier in 1960, tried by the state, and sentenced to death. Menderes' peasant-based Democratic Party was banned, and the triumphant Republicans of wizened old Ismet Inönü took over. But Menderes' popularity, it seems, has only ripened with time. Barely a fortnight before the nation's general elections, his unofficial successor, Suleyman Demirel, 41, stands a chance of winning the lion's share...
...parents, wanted to tell the story of every immigrant who ever sought refuge from oppression on America's shores. With obvious sincerity, Kazan the writer-producer chose as his model a character he could warm to: his uncle Avraam Elia, who at 20 fought his way out of Anatolian Turkey onto a westbound ship. But Kazan the director-perhaps from habit-does his own script a disservice, rendering it in bravura theatrical style as though all the world were indeed a stage...
Looming over Ankara's busy Ataturk Boulevard like an Anatolian mountain peak is the massive, honey-colored stone structure that houses Turkey's Parliament...
...wanted to be a drama critic for as long as he can remember: "I was aisle-struck, not stagestruck.'' Born in Malden, Mass., of Greek parents of Anatolian origin, Kalem spoke Greek before English. At Harvard, he remembers being thrilled by the late Ted Spencer reading Shakespeare aloud, and Hamlet remains his favorite play. One month after emerging from Harvard (A.B. '42, cum laude), Kalem was in the Army. With the 24th Division in the Philippines, he won the Bronze Star under gunfire "for staying on the telephone for 17 hours when the Japs seemed...