Word: istanbul
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...majority of the world's 6.5 million Armenians* deplore the terror tactics of the extremist groups, who experts believe have less than 1,000 members. Last week the Armenian Patriarch in Istanbul, Shnork Kaloustian, issued a plea to Armenians everywhere to "disown these misguided and fanatical elements." Still, hatred for the Turks has festered over the years in the face of indifference in most parts of the world to the Armenian national tragedy...
...Turkish authorities rounded up all able-bodied men in the Turkish army and bludgeoned them to death. Intellectuals and community leaders in Istanbul were herded aboard ships, then drowned at sea. Armenian babies were thrown live into pits and covered with stones. Women, children and old people were forced to march hundreds of miles, over mountains, presumably to a place of deportation in Syria, but actually to their deaths. Forbidden supplies of food and water, they were waylaid by brigands. Turkish gendarmes raped and sometimes disemboweled or cut the breasts off women before finally killing them. While the horrified...
DIED. Cevdet Sunay, 82, President of Turkey from 1966 to 1973; of a heart attack; in Istanbul. A cautious architect of political compromise, Sunay helped preserve Turkey's fragile democracy during a turbulent period when the military and parliament frequently clashed...
...Richard W. Tillinghast, who teaches English Cbr's two poetry sections, the road began and ended according to the blueprint. But somewhere in the middle his path took an unusual turn: the road from Cambridge to Cambridge led, not through Oxford, but through radical Berkeley, Istanbul, and Tennessee...
Winning a travel grant from Harvard, he took a 10-month leave of absence from Berkeley and travelled overland from Istanbul to India, crossing the border on the final leg of his trip one day before the Indo-Pakistani war began. "You could still go to Iran then, and you could still go to Afghanistan." Tillinghast recalls wistfully. When New Delhi had a blackout, he rode around in a taxi, looking into the darkened streets...