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...underlying cause of the trouble is Cyprus. Three years ago, after an Athens-inspired coup against President-Archbishop Makarios, Turkey invaded the island to protect its Turkish minority. A strongly pro-Greek U.S. Congress responded by cutting off military aid to Ankara, which retaliated by taking control of 26 U.S. military installations in Turkey. Congress's action did not make many points for the U.S. in Athens; the Administration was blamed for backing the hated military junta that collapsed after the failure of the Cyprus coup and for not stopping the Turks. The new democratic regime of Prime Minister...
...happens, both Denktas and Makarios are anxious to appear conciliatory. Denktas, is under pressure from Ankara, which is concerned about a $1 billion arms aid bill that is held up in the U.S. Congress pending some progress in the Cyprus negotiations. Makarios needs continued international support to maintain his political position in the face of strong gains by the Greek Cypriot Communist Party. "The Greek Cypriots now realize they can't return to the old Cyprus," says a foreign diplomat in Nicosia. "The Turks now understand they can't act like conquerors. The war is over." When...
Rescue workers could only guess at the actual extent of devastation on the remote, snow-covered slopes 600 miles east of Ankara, though past experience with tremors in the earthquake-prone region has taught them to expect the worst. Last year a quake hit the area, leaving 3,000 dead. In 1939 another seismic catastrophe took 30,000 lives. This time more than 120 towns and villages were affected, some of them isolated by 8 in. of snow on the narrow mountain roads. In the settlement of Alikelle, only two people survived out of 70 families. In the town...
CAPPADOCIA LIES IN the center of the Anatolian peninsula on a plateau bounded by Ankara, the Turkish capital, Kayseri, the one-time capital of Cappadocia, and Konya, home of the thirteenth century mystic Mevlani and his whirling dervishes. I came to Cappadocia by bus. The Turks probably have the best buses in the world--cheap, abundant, luxurious (plush seats, stewards, T.V., etc.). And fast, Perhaps too fast--Turkey has the highest per-vehicle accident rate in the world...
When the campaign ended last week, the old style had hung on, but by a margin so slim that it left the government with an uncertain mandate. Ecevit, whose Republican People's Party favors bigger social welfare programs and a strongly nationalist foreign policy, racked up big majorities in Ankara, Istanbul and other big cities. But Premier Demirel's support of free enterprise and his appeal to traditional religious values carried the normally conservative rural areas and older voters...