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Thus emboldened, Premier Süleyman Demirel played along with the rising Turkish indignation over Cyprus. In an all-night session of Parliament, he demanded-and got-permission to send troops abroad, which was the next thing to an outright declaration of war. He ordered a full-scale alert and fired off a sharp note to Athens that demanded, among other things, the immediate recall of General Grivas to the mainland and the withdrawal of the illegally infiltrated Greek regulars from the island. He also insisted on guarantees for the free movement of Turkish Cypriots so that they could concentrate...
...Turkish troops set foot on Cyprus, warned the Greeks, it would not only mean war with Greece but would inevitably start a slaughter of Turkish Cypriots that no number of Turkish soldiers would be able to prevent. Yet so great was the public pressure in Turkey on Premier Demirel for quick action that the Greeks themselves despaired that the warning could halt the train of events. Athens stopped broadcasting weather bulletins so that the Turkish air force could not use them to plot bombing missions. Reports from Turkey said that the invasion fleet was waiting only for the onset...
Turkey's President Cevdet Sunay and Prime Minister Siileyman Demirel had scheduled a heavy round of events for the Pope. Paul met for 70 minutes-about as long as he had spent with Athenagoras-with Sunay. The Pope also took a quick ride over the Bosporus aboard Sunay's presidential yacht and visited Hagia Sophia (Holy Wisdom), which was, until Sultan Mohammed the Conqueror proclaimed it a mosque in 1453, one of Christendom's largest churches. "It's beautiful," murmured the Pontiff, who startled his hosts by kneeling for a moment of silent prayer in what...
...Ears. For Turkey's 26 million peasants, who represent 80% of the country's population, Demirel is forming cooperatives, liberalizing agricultural credits, promoting the use of fertilizers and modern farm tools, setting up an agricultural college at Erzureem in eastern Anatolia, and building three dams for irrigation and rural power that will help double the country's electrical capacity...
...biggest industrial enterprises filed expansion plans during 1966, and new industry is sprouting up. Last week the government unveiled Turkey's first homemade automobile, the Anadol, a sprightly little sedan that will go into production next month. "We are up to our ears in projects," Demirel says excitedly. "There is plenty of copper, lead and zinc in eastern Anatolia. There is some oil. There are magnificent stands of hardwood and softwood timber. Tobacco is already thriving around Izmir. There is great potential for livestock. Our Mediterranean coastal beaches could bring us $100 million a year from tourism...