Word: izmir
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After reading your Aug. 24 account of the Turkish brutalities inflicted upon U.S. Army Sergeants Dale McCuistion and James D. King at Izmir, Turkey, I feel that we should make the Turkish government feel grateful for saving them from Communist occupation and domination through our military installations in Turkey. We should act with the knowledge that Turkey is intrinsically a bad bargain for us as our ally, despite the $2 billion we have already given to them...
...Izmir, took an inglorious stand against U.S. Air Force Sergeants McCuistion and King, lest the brutal and ill workings of status-of-forces agreements be exposed...
...hush-hush consultations with the State Department (TIME. Aug. 24). From Paris, NATO's General Lauris Norstad dispatched a team of crack investigators headed by Major General Joseph Carroll, sometime FBI man. to find out just what was going on at NATO's southeastern headquarters in Izmir, the station at which the four sergeants were serving. Under NATO prodding. Izmir's Public Prosecutor even launched his own investigation into the brutality charges...
Last week, at the trial of the sergeants in Izmir's humid, jampacked courthouse, there was little public evidence that all this display of official activity had yet brought anyone much closer to the truth...
According to the Turkish police, the four sergeants among them had bought about $15,000 worth of lire at black-market rates, i.e., at 11 or 12 to the dollar instead of at the official 9 to the dollar. For this, Izmir's public prosecutor last week demanded up to 25 years for McCuistion and lesser prison sentences for the other three...