Word: izmir
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shortly before 1 o'clock one morning in early August, U.S. Army Sergeant Dale McCuistion, 27, driving through the streets of Izmir, Turkey, headquarters of NATO land forces in southeastern Europe, was crowded over to the curb. Men in plain clothes poured out of an unmarked civilian car and a Jeep, yanked McCuistion out of his station wagon. Convinced that he was about to be robbed, McCuistion put up a fight, but was soon overpowered and hustled off to a dungeonlike room underneath an old stable...
...Turkish Custom. Early the following morning, while McCuistion was still being held incommunicado, Turkish police picked up U.S. Air Force Sergeant Giacomo Recevuto, of Brooklyn. And that afternoon Izmir Police Chief Nevzat Emrealp informed NATO authorities that he wanted to have "a little talk" about currency black-marketing with two other U.S. sergeants, James D. King of Ruth, Miss, and Joseph Proietti of Mt. Kisco, N.Y. Emrealp did not mention that his men had already extracted from the Turkish manager of the NATO noncoms' club in Izmir a confession implicating King-a confession subsequently repudiated by the club manager...
Stolen Papers. It was two days after McCuistion's disappearance before NATO headquarters got interested. When Brigadier General Paul Hollister, NATO chief of staff in Izmir, protested to Turkish authorities, Tough Cop Emrealp at first denied knowledge of McCuistion's arrest. Finally the Turks agreed to show McCuistion and King to a U.S. colonel-who reported that both men were "in bad shape." It took ten more days for NATO to learn of the charges against the four sergeants, and by this time NATO officers also discovered that someone had stolen McCuistion's finance records from...
...Inonu's train pulled out, bound for Izmir, it was pelted by bricks, and two reporters aboard were injured. The provincial governor at Izmir (Smyrna) canceled a ball scheduled in Inonu's honor, and two theaters that had been hired by Republicans for mass meetings were padlocked by the building inspector as "unsafe." Just in case Inonu had not vet taken the hint, Turkey's Interior Minister, Namik Gedik, went on the air at week's end, warned that there would be "further trouble" if the old soldier persisted in his tour...
Peace on Cyprus had one important side effect. Sixty Greek officers and men who last June had walked out in a huff from NATO's Southeastern European Command headquarters at Izmir, Turkey, quietly returned to their job. Friendly allies once again in the Eastern Mediterranean, the British, Turks and Greeks scheduled joint naval maneuvers in April...