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...realm. With party activity banned, all parliamentary processes remain suspended. Both deposed Prime Minister Demirel and the former opposition leader, Bulent Ecevit, have been released after about a month in detention. The leaders of two militant parties, however-Alparslan Turkey, of the far-right Nationalist Action Party, and Necmettin Erbakan, of the radical Islamic National Salvation Party-are awaiting trial on charges of subversive political activities...
...Ecevit had corralled five maverick votes and was conducting an "underground" search for more to hammer together a minority government. The alternative was a coalition with the National Salvation Party (24 seats), which Demirel was forced to take into the current government. The N.S.P. leader is Necmettin Erbakan, 51, a smug hard-liner who insists that Turkey made a "concession" on Cyprus by not occupying the entire island. Commented Justice Party Deputy Nuri Bayar with a bitter smile: "We could wind up in a tug of war over a politician that neither side wants. That's the Oriental side...
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...