Word: hurriyet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...snickering last week after Papandreou flaunted his ample young mistress at a European Community summit meeting for which he was host on the Greek island of Rhodes. Photos of the enraptured and grandfatherly Prime Minister with a miniskirted Liani were splashed from London to Istanbul, where the Turkish daily Hurriyet called Papandreou an "international laughingstock...
...Turks worked valiantly to cut their losses. Army troops stationed near the Soviet border within 100 miles of the afflicted area rushed 7,000 pup tents, 26,000 blankets and ten tons of tea to the stricken villagers. After the daily newspaper Hurriyet printed a front-page photo of two young girls forlornly searching for their parents, it was flooded with calls from readers offering to adopt orphaned survivors. The government also received promises of several donations from abroad, including $10 million from Saudi Arabia and more than $2 million worth of supplies from...