Word: istanbul
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Greek Foreign Minister to London. But the British also invited Turkey. The conference broke up in bitterness. A bomb exploded in the Turkish consulate at Salonika (Greece); in retaliation Turks erupted in savage riots against Greek minorities in Istanbul, Izmir and Ankara. By now Greeks were thoroughly aroused against both their NATO partners, Britain and Turkey; they got mad at the U.S. as well when the State Department ineptly expressed equal concern to both Turkey and Greece...
...didn't like." Then she told how chummy she still is with her three ex-mates. She is working on a movie (Death of a Scoundrel) with Sanders, and "he phones me all the time." As for the other two: "Connie Hilton built that hotel of his in Istanbul because of my suggestion. So at least Turkey has a monument of my affection for their Senator...
...separate." Then dapper, driving Premier Adnan Menderes, trying to whip up popular support to offset rising big-city discontent with his extravagant inflationary policies (TIME, Oct. 24), took off on a speech-making swing through his Anatolian farm-country strongholds. At Konya, in the wheat-growing heart of what Istanbul calls the Koran belt, he blurted out the most direct pitch yet for the prayer-rug vote by a leader of modern Turkey: "If there are no courses on religion in our schools," he said, "citizens who want their children to learn religion are deprived ... It would be suitable...
Said Vatan's Editor Ahmet Emin Yalman, Menderes' powerful press backer in two elections: "Laicism is one of the principal cornerstones of modern Turkey. To make concessions on this subject for political reasons is an action not befitting a head of government." Istanbul's Cumhuriyet, another past supporter of Menderes, denounced any plan to "touch the foundation pillar of the Ataturk era." The opposition Republicans and the new Freedom Party blasted Menderes' pronouncement as "unconstitutional" and conceived in failure. Though only last month the government had shut up two newspapers for saying less. Menderes made...
...Paris' bustling Orly Airport last week, a bulletin board flashed departures to every corner of the globe-Casablanca, Mexico City, Prague, London, New York, Stockholm, Istanbul, Buenos Aires, Tokyo. All planes bore the winged sea-horse insigne of Air France, Europe's biggest and the world's longest airline. Frenchmen could claim with pride that it is also one of the world's most modern. Last week France's international airline was betting some $143 million on a new jet fleet, the biggest outside the U.S. On order were twelve French-built twin-jet Caravelle...