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Premier Turgut Ozal said after an emergency Cabinet meeting in Ankara, "This appears to have been a suicide commando mission...
Meanwhile, George Shultz, who was in the midst of a European trip in search of assurances that U.S. bases would remain in Greece and Turkey, held a press conference in Ankara at which his usually stony face fairly beamed with satisfaction. He defended the exercise off Libya as a simple assertion of "traditional maritime rights," but later described the action as "blowing the whistle" on Gaddafi. Shultz was one of the first U.S. officials affected by a stepped-up alert against potential Libyan terrorist reprisals. When he left Ankara for Athens, his Boeing 707 was escorted by a team...
...Association. The defendants, most of whom are writers, have been on trial for 18 months and face prison terms of from five to 15 years. The experience left the playwrights worn and wary. "We already had a very hard time in Istanbul," Pinter told one group of reporters in Ankara, "and we don't want to talk." Back in Connecticut last week, Miller observed of the Turkish press: "We couldn't find an editor who wouldn't say that he couldn't tell the whole truth." Miller and Pinter will have no such restraints when they write their reports...
...Olympics are the only times in the history of the world when so many nations come together in one spot in an association of friendship," says Charles Palmer, president of the British Olympic Association. Vested interest. According to Kurthan Fisek, a professor of public management from the University of Ankara, "No single institution in the entire history of mankind has been able to equate itself with world peace as effectively and consistently." Let's not get carried away...
...week that sending the F-5's to Turkey would upset the delicate balance of power in the Aegean. They regard their NATO partner Turkey, not the Communist bloc, as their greatest threat. Much of this animosity results from the political division of Cyprus, over which Athens and Ankara have been clashing for years...