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...their invasion. The vote was narrow-41 to 40-but White House aides said that they could have gained at least ten additional votes, if needed, from Senators who were reluctant to cast them for fear of offending constituents of Greek descent. In his meetings with Turkish Premier Siileyman Demirel, Ford will probably argue that only a more conciliatory attitude on Turkey's part can overcome House opposition to the bill. Ford will also discuss the Cyprus crisis with Greek Premier Constantine Caramanlis, who agreed to attend the NATO summit only because he believes that Ford...
...search for a successor who would continue the departed Prime Minister's "above party" approach to government produced a new political crisis for Turkey. For 50 years the country has been effectively run from behind the scenes by the military, which last year turned out Prime Minister Suleyman Demirel (for not cracking down hard enough on dissenters) and installed the then virtually unknown Erim, a former law professor. Officially, Turkey is a parliamentary democracy, but the four main parties are so fractiously divided that little in the way of creative change is possible. Because Parliament so strongly opposed...
...Tyranny. The Turkish generals and their complacent allies among the politicians insist that the situation in their country should not be compared with that of neighboring Greece, where the colonels rule. "There is no tyranny here, no dictatorship," insists ex-Prime Minister Demirel, who remains head of the Justice Party, which holds the largest number of seats in Parliament. "This is a free country." By and large, the 36 million Turks-the vast majority of them conservative, unsophisticated Moslem villagers-still support what one observer calls "democracy within the rules...
Turkey's civil politicians now have the choice of forming a coalition cabinet or rallying round some member of Demirel's dominant Justice Party who would be more acceptable to the army. Either out of fear of an outright military takeover or, more likely, out of tacit agreement with the generals' move, most Turks accepted the change with equanimity. Even the extremist student group Dev-genc (an acronym for "revolutionary youth movement") joined in a declaration of support for any reforms that the military might have in mind...
...immediate trigger for Premier Süeyman 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...