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...Ames and first wife Nancy, who worked with him in the CIA, were posted to Ankara, Turkey. With the northeastern frontier of that country bordering on the Soviet Union, this was a prime CIA post for recruiting agents for the U.S. from the local assortment of Soviet embassy, trade and press employees. One of Ames' supervisors from that period remembers him as being dull, unsophisticated and lackadaisical. "Did what he was supposed to, went where you asked him to, but he wasn't impressive," he says. Nancy, by contrast, was "aggressive and pushy." He recalls that with the women...
...skills. The year Jimmy Carter was elected President, Ames moved north to New York City, where he did what most CIA spycatchers do when they're posted to Manhattan: he hunted potential "human assets" at the United Nations. If Ames hadn't come to the KGB's attention in Ankara, he certainly did while in Manhattan. During that four-year tour, Ames and his wife lived in a 31-story building on the East Side, a five-minute walk from...
...Petrosyan's attempts to improve relations with Turkey, still regarded by Armenians as the true historic enemy, have produced few results -- if only < because Ankara wants to avoid offending Azerbaijan, a Turkic-speaking fellow Muslim country. The U.S. has barely begun to address the complexities of Bosnia and Herzegovina, let alone Nagorno-Karabakh. Says former Foreign Minister Raffi Hovannisian, an Armenian American: "This is not the first difficult, cold winter for Armenians, but there is an unfortunate sense among the people that they have been abandoned to their fate...
UGUR MUMCU WAS TURKEY'S TOP INVESTIGATIVE reporter and an articulate critic of Islamic fundamentalism. When a car bomb literally blew him to pieces in Ankara, Turks naturally suspected radical fundamentalists. Ozgen Acar, his editor at Cumhuriyet, the newspaper where Mumcu had worked for the past 18 years, said the murder was the work of agents sent from Iran, "the same people who are after Salman Rushdie...
...Iranian, Syrian, Libyan and Turkish suspects, said Acar, and authorities believe the murder may be linked to six others, including the deaths of an Israeli security officer and a U.S. serviceman. Prime Minister Suleyman Demirel spoke of "certain powers trying to create division and havoc in Turkey." In Ankara hundreds of thousands of mourners tossed red carnations at Mumcu's flag-draped coffin. At the Iranian consulate in Istanbul and elsewhere, protesting crowds chanted, "We are not Iran...