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Just before the 1 p.m. newscast on Radio Ankara, three colonels from the army, navy and air force handed the announcer a bulletin and politely asked him to read it over the air. It was a memorandum from Turkey's military chiefs: "The Parliament and the government, with their continuing attitude, policies and actions, have pushed our country into anarchy, fratricide and social and economic unrest. Parliament should remain above party politics and consider measures to dispel the sorrow and hopelessness felt by the nation and the armed forces, to put an end to the anarchy and bring about...
...eyman Demirel's political demise was the case of the four kidnaped U.S. airmen. Sergeant Jimmie J. Sexton and Airmen First Class James M. Gholson, Larry Heavner and Richard Caraszi were abducted two weeks ago by young revolutionaries who demanded $400,000 to spare their lives. The Ankara government responded with a heavyhanded and unproductive search through the Middle East Technical University, in which a student and a soldier were killed...
...TURKEY, an ambitious plot was carried out by kidnapers who identified themselves as members of the Turkish People's Liberation Army-a previously unknown group probably related to a Maoist student organization called the Dev-genc (TIME, March 1). The kidnapers seized four U.S. servicemen near Ankara and demanded $400,000: otherwise, they said, their American prisoners would be executed by a firing squad...
Afraid that the latest incident could bring down his shaky government, Premier Süleyman Demirel ordered troops to raid Middle East Technical University outside Ankara, a center of leftist student activity. Students threw sticks of dynamite and fired pistols from dormitory roofs: one student and one soldier were killed. Disturbances erupted elsewhere in Ankara as college and high school students went on a rampage, and Demirel reluctantly considered imposing martial law. The reason he hesitated was that his Justice Party has a narrow margin in Parliament (225 to 220), and its rejection of a proposal to proclaim martial...
...reduced its military presence in Turkey from 27,000 (including dependents) in 1966 to roughly 15,000 today, and will pare down to 10,000 next year. Such conspicuous U.S. facilities as a huge PX and a boisterous enlisted men's club have been moved from downtown Ankara to the suburbs. More than 500 Peace Corps volunteers were withdrawn last year...