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State of Limbo. The kidnaping, like the recent bombings, is thought to have been the work of a Maoist guerrilla group known as Dev-genc (a Turkish acronym for "revolutionary youth movement"). Premier Süleyman Demirel has been reluctant to deal harshly with terrorists, lest he acquire the reputation for repression that brought down Premier Adnan Menderes and led to his hanging. Nevertheless, last week Demirel asked parliament to widen his government's powers to control the violence...
Turkey has received a $3,000,000 loan from the U.S. to finance the war on narcotics. Under U.S. prodding, Prime Minister Süleyman Demirel issued a decree in June reducing the number of legal poppy-growing provinces from nine to seven by next year. He also submitted to Parliament a bill that would increase the jail term for illegal poppy growing from an insignificant six months to two years. Much of the pressure on Demirel was brought by a U.S. threat to cancel a much-needed $40 million loan to Turkey for economic development...
...riot. Tanks rumbled out and gunfire spluttered. The Golden Horn bridge was closed and ferry service across the Bosporus, linking the European and Asian halves of the city, was stopped to contain the rampaging mobs. With four dead and 100 injured, the government of Prime Minister Süleyman Demirel imposed a month-long period of martial law on Istanbul and the nearby industrial city of Izmit. Last week, the parliament extended martial law for another two months...
Leftist Despair. In the midst of that field, Demirel is a man beset on all sides. The peasants, who constitute 70% of Turkey's 35 million people and the chief source of support for Demirel's Justice Party, are angered by his attempts to improve conditions for the middle class and the business community. The middle class wants him to place more emphasis on law and order so as to curb radical leftists. The minority leftists, who despair of ever gaining any sort of power through parliamentary means, advocate disruption as the only way to be heard...
...this year, 14 students have died in violent demonstrations. "If the corrupt university leadership is not replaced by next term," says one student leader, "there will be more blood spilled. We are not fooling." Despite the increased vigor of the left, the Communists are not one of Demirel's problems, either as an outside threat or as a substantial internal influence on the radicals. The government itself is solidly pro-Western...