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...shook hands with soldiers who manned the roadblocks. Storekeepers raised their bombproof shutters for the first time in months, and restaurants began to fill up again in the evenings. Some city dwellers looked far trimmer than usual, simply because they no longer packed pistols inside their coats or waistbands. Ankara's English-language Turkish Daily News, reflecting the prevailing mood, announced in a banner headline: LIFE BACK TO NORMAL THROUGHOUT TURKEY...
...State Department reported last night that the government of Turkey, a NATO member and strategic military ally of the United States, has been overthrown in a bloodless military coup. Spokesman Sondra McCarty said the U.S. Embassy in Ankara reported no violence or danger to Americans there...
Everybody who was anybody in Ankara should have attended the Belgian embassy's National Day reception last week. But as the evening wore on, the partying diplomats and politicians made a chilling observation: not a single Turkish general or admiral was present. Within hours of the reception, rumors were sweeping Turkey's capital that the country's top military commanders were in an emergency meeting plotting a takeover. As it turned out, the officers were merely attending a military wedding, but the wave of jitters was a barometer of the mood in a country where terrorist violence...
...years. Largely because of a lack of foreign exchange, the country had virtually run out of fuel oil, and thousands of homes and offices were without heat. As if that were not suffering enough, Demirel chose the moment to introduce draconian new fiscal measures, which one Western diplomat in Ankara called "the most significant economic step taken in Turkey since World...
...Turkey's relations with Iran are nonetheless strained. Ankara last month recalled the families of its Iran-based diplomats after the Ayatullah Khomeini declared, "The regimes of Egypt, Iraq and Turkey are standing up thanks to bayonets...