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...Four leftist Turkish guerrillas captured a Turkish Airlines flight out of Ankara and threatened to destroy the plane with guns and grenades if three political prisoners were not released. The gunmen diverted the flight to Bulgaria, where they were granted asylum...
Turkish Prime Minister Nihat Erim was not terribly surprised last week when a message from President Cevdet Sunay was rushed to him at Ankara airport. Erim had just said goodbye to Soviet President Nikolai V. Podgorny, who flew home after a week of inconclusive negotiations over a proposed Soviet-Turkish friendship treaty. Ceremonies completed, Erim tore open the envelope to learn that he was being relieved as Prime Minister because of his "extreme fatigue...
...dissent. Since then, 107 leftists have been arrested. Generals now hold key positions in the police, the state radio and television networks and the government-run airline. Some Turkish intellectuals feel that the military has been somewhat excessive in its zeal to preserve order. The army commander of Ankara, for instance, closed down a display of pictures of President Nixon's China visit, sponsored by the Turkish-American Association. Showings of two U.S. movie classics, Citizen Kane and The Grapes of Wrath, were halted because their themes were considered too controversial. Reports persist that some antigovernment critics who were...
...cotton) have reached a record high, and so has the balance of payments surplus. Tourism will set new records this year despite inadequate hotel space, and a massive suspension bridge is being built across the Bosporus at Istanbul. Social life in the cities is gay, albeit a trifle restricted. Ankara hostesses, aware that under martial law no one is allowed on the city's streets after the 1:30 a.m. curfew, always make certain that their parties end before that time...
...most immediate response to the atrocity was a harsh crackdown on leftist radicals. Last week the government arrested more than 100 university students in Ankara and threatened to close down the schools if sympathy demonstrations for the terrorists continued...