Word: bosporus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...resolving the crisis. The hijackers have offered to release all hostages in Istanbul in return for a Friday news conference to publicize the plight of Chechnya. Turkish officials, who say that they will not let a ship that the hijackers say is packed with explosives sail through the crowded Bosporus straits to Istanbul, have offered the port city of Eregli as an alternative site. While this hostage crisis seems headed to a peaceful end, TIME's James Wilde says that its effects will be far-reaching. "Observers here say that however it is handled, this incident will do little...
Ciller, a mother of two, has a doctorate in economics from the University of Connecticut and has lectured at the University of Bosporus in Turkey...
During his two-day visit to Turkey, George Bush watched whirling dervishes perform, sailed down the Bosporus and seemed calm and relaxed. That was pretty remarkable, considering that a few days earlier Turkish officials had foiled an elaborate plot to kill the U.S. President. Acting on information developed by Turkey's National Intelligence Organization, police mounted a series of raids on eight safe houses in Istanbul, killing 10 people and capturing 12 others involved in the attempt...