Word: istanbul
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Israeli Consul General Ephraim Elrom, 58, a man of habit, was late for lunch. Disturbed, his wife Else phoned his Istanbul office. "Something's wrong," she said. "Ephraim is always so punctual...
Rejecting the guerrillas' demands as "insolent," the government ordered massive arrests of leftists; close to 1,000 were detained. The government also introduced a law in the Turkish Parliament making kidnaping punishable by death-even for those who simply withhold information concerning the crime. Istanbul's 6,000-man police force, meanwhile, combed the city, concentrating on the European side of the Bosporus. A note from Elrom had been mailed to his wife from Aksaray, a district in Istanbul's old quarter. "I am O.K.," he wrote. "Do not worry...
...history, has packed her bags; her next book will be set in Australia. Phyllis Whitney is just back from Norway with practical advice about scouting locales: "Islands are easy. You do your homework before going and get introductions from people like librarians when you arrive. Cities are harder. In Istanbul, I solved the problem by concentrating on just one mosque, one covered bazaar, one small town up the Bosphorus...
...recent weeks, bombs have been hurled at U.S. homes, offices and installations in Istanbul and Ankara. Last week a U.S. airman was kidnaped near Ankara by five young Turks, and released 17 hours later. After that incident the U.S. embassy advised its personnel to take such precautions as driving to work along different routes and refusing to accept unexpected packages...
...fact that the proud and xenophobic Turks resent any sign of dependence on the U.S. "Atatürk's death in 1938 left Turkey in a limbo of incomplete Westernization," writes Coggin. "City-bred granddaughters of veiled harem favorites practice law and medicine in Ankara and Istanbul today. But in the Moslem countryside and small towns, where 80% of Turkey's 35 million people live, little has changed from centuries...