Word: ecevit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ecevit was clearly not about to seek that kind of accommodation with Demirel on his own. He is a poet-warrior who studied social psychology and Middle Eastern history at Harvard and wrote the words to his own campaign song, Harmony (sample verse: "Cloud to the sky, rain to the cloud, soil to the rain, how well in harmony"). After a huge celebratory party at the R.P.P.'s yellow stucco headquarters on Ankara's Farabi Street (once home of the Turkish intelligence agency), he plunged into talks to see whether he could form an effective government. His goal...
Some U.S. diplomats predicted that Ecevit, who despises Erbakan's erratic ways and irresponsible politics, might accept the Salvationists as allies, but then ignore them. Washington is uncertain about what an Ecevit government will mean for still strained Turkish-U.S. relations. Meeting newsmen last week, Ecevit warned that the continuation of a Congress-imposed embargo on military aid to Turkey will have "certain inevitable impacts on [our] contribution to the collective security system." He spoke vaguely of forming a new "national defense concept" that "need not be in conflict with our membership in NATO." Ecevit did not spell...
Relations between the two countries depend in part on the outcome of Turkey's June 5 elections. Demirel's Justice Party is being challenged by the liberal Republican People's Party of former Premier Bulent Ecevit, who became something of a national hero by ordering the Cyprus invasion. Ecevit has been shot at four times on the hustings and angrily claims that his opponent prefers "pistols to polls." Although the campaign had been marred by violence, the nation was stunned by last week's massacre in Istanbul's Taksim Square, where 150,000 people...
...violence has so fragmented Turkey that it is possible that neither Demirel nor Ecevit will win any kind of mandate. If that happens, the Aegean crisis will continue to fester. Greece's Caramanlis, for one, is so pessimistic about the situation that he has begun to feel that the Turkish military-the generals who plotted the hated attack on Cyprus -may turn out to be the only stable group with whom Greece can deal...
...less important Senate. Almost everyone recognized the off-year election as really being a national referendum between the country's two main parties, and a popularity contest between Turkey's two best-known politicians. In the overall vote, Demirel's party got 41 % (up 11 % from 1973), while Ecevit's R.P.P. scored 43.8%, a 10% gain. Only scraps were left for four minor parties that previously shared one-third of the vote. This meant Turkey might well return to a stable two-party system in the next general election, scheduled...