Word: istanbul
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since November, the government has fired 40 university professors for being too leftist; 280 more have resigned. Because of increasingly vigilant press censorship, newspapers have not been able to comment on the purges. In one of its most controversial actions, the regime briefly shut down the left-wing Istanbul newspaper Cumhuriyet. Reason: the paper had reprinted a tough 1961 editorial criticizing reactionary efforts to subvert Turkey's cultural institutions. A military prosecutor charged Publisher Nadir Nadi, 75, who wrote the editorial, with "openly provoking people to commit a crime." The authorities also brought to trial Actress Isik Yenersu...
...West Germany does not take action to reduce human rights abuse in other countries, like Turkey. Last week 90 French intellectuals staged a protest demanding "the immediate end of the repression and militarization that has hit the universities." And in a public show of displeasure, the U.S. consul in Istanbul turned up for Nadi's trial. Privately, American diplomats have reminded the military that NATO is "an association of democratic nations," warning that the new policies create "a very unfortunate impression" that could imperil congressional support for future military...
...give an appearance of greater discipline. It has urged women to wear long-sleeved dresses instead of jeans, and to use less perfume and makeup. Many Turks are irritated even by seemingly reasonable decisions, such as increased enforcement of the country's generally ignored traffic laws. Says an Istanbul journalist: "We are not a nation of 45 million small soldiers as Evren wants. We are civilians...
...plot is simple young, fabulously wealthy, wildly extravagant and supposedly beautiful Eve Tozer (Bess Armstrong) stops doing the Charleston on Istanbul tabletops long enough to learn that she has 12 days to lind her long lost father. Should she fail to exhibit him in a British court in that time he will be declared dead, and the company fortune will devolve upon daddy's evil partner Bentik (Robert Morlev) The prospect propels her into a harrowing two-week adventure in which hundreds of extras die and she herself narrowly escapes a dozen terrible ends. Along for the ride is Patrick...
...beginning, their performances were tragically unprofessional. OSS networks in Istanbul and Rome were penetrated by German agents. An anti-Nazi official who was slipping papers to Allen Dulles, Donovan's man in Switzerland, was mistakenly suspected of being a German double agent. Although Winston Churchill was a Donovan drinking buddy, the British undermined efforts to put OSS agents in the Balkans, Scandinavia, Burma, India and other places where their own agents were already at work...