Word: izmir
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...little sedan that will go into production next month. "We are up to our ears in projects," Demirel says excitedly. "There is plenty of copper, lead and zinc in eastern Anatolia. There is some oil. There are magnificent stands of hardwood and softwood timber. Tobacco is already thriving around Izmir. There is great potential for livestock. Our Mediterranean coastal beaches could bring us $100 million a year from tourism...
...Izmir, Turkey...
...Famagusta. On Feb. 19 a Turkish Cypriot woodsman was killed near Kokkina. When there was a flurry of gunfire last week at Ambelikou, a tiny Turkish Cypriot village near the town of Lefka, Ankara responded with a roar of anger. A naval flotilla of 35 vessels normally based at Izmir put to sea bound for Iskenderun, just 100 miles from Cyprus. As Turkish Foreign Minister Hasan Ishik postponed his scheduled visit to Pakistan, there were angry threats of another Turkish air strike or a naval bombardment or even an invasion...
Freeman in a light and colloquial vein can be terribly amusing. In Come to Izmir he adopts a jaunty sort of irony that mocks the language of travel guides. He has a real gift for conveying the appropriate tone of voice, the proper mood: En Route to Persepolis 330 B.C. displays this talent to good advantage. The poem is in three parts, and Freeman switches roles from section to section; at first he is sage and meditative, then boisterous and lusty...
...Democrats were responsible for the mob-wrecking of the anti-Menderes newspaper, Demokrat Izmir. (Menderes' direct complicity was not proved; yet the state prosecutor demanded the death penalty...