Word: erim
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Turkish Prime Minister Nihat Erim was not terribly surprised last week when a message from President Cevdet Sunay was rushed to him at Ankara airport. Erim had just said goodbye to Soviet President Nikolai V. Podgorny, who flew home after a week of inconclusive negotiations over a proposed Soviet-Turkish friendship treaty. Ceremonies completed, Erim tore open the envelope to learn that he was being relieved as Prime Minister because of his "extreme fatigue...
Actually, Erim had been trying to resign for more than a week; he had agreed to remain on the job only to handle the Podgorny visit. Whatever fatigue he felt was caused by his unsuccessful efforts to deal with an obstructionist Parliament that refused to approve his tax-and land-reform measures and sought to prevent him from using the alternative-ruling by decree...
...Erim's resignation and Sunay's 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...
...government of Turkish Prime Minister Nihat Erim agreed to have a court review of the death sentence. In a daylong confrontation with the terrorists, Interior Minister Ferit Kubat tried to talk them into surrendering. Finally, the guerrillas shoved one hostage in front of a window. "These fellows won't listen to anything," he cried. "They are going to kill...
...Turkish government was taking, the U.S. promised to increase its aid and technical assistance to help Turkey convert from poppy growing to other farm products. President Nixon made a special point of appearing before TV cameras with the Turkish Ambassador to Washington and praising Turkey's Premier Nihat Erim for his "courageous, statesmanlike action." Secretary of State William Rogers told TIME Correspondent William Mader: "The decision may create difficult domestic problems for Turkey, but it was taken in the interest of the international community. When we in the U.S. have so many teen-agers dying of heroin addiction...