Word: izmir
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sultanate and to view its incomparable treasury of emeralds, diamonds, gold and ivory. They pack the Blue Mosque and the other masterpieces of Mehmet Aga, Turkey's great 17th century architect. Bargain hunters fill the cavernous covered bazaar looking for rugs, leather goods and gold. To the south, near Izmir, tour guides jockey for position at the ruins of Ephesus, where the main attraction is the Temple of Artemis, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. In Cappadocia, the eerie area in Central Anatolia where thousands of monks lived in conical towers of rock during the early Christian...
...past the point of worrying about what color the report cards should be; we're worrying about the future and what major changes have to be made," says participant Ira J. Scheter, the head of a school for military dependents in Izmir, Turkey...
...more numerous leftist, often campus-based, organizations such as the Marxist-Leninist Armed Propaganda Squad and the Turkish Workers and Peasants Liberation Army. There have also been signs, some of them ominous, of a possible fundamentalist Muslim revival. In November, for example, Muslim gangs demonstrated against Americans in Izmir and other cities after false radio reports that the U.S. had been behind the seizure of the Sacred Mosque in Mecca...