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Both Greece and Turkey were admitted to NATO in 1951 in recognition of their growing military strength and importance to Western defense. At NATO's headquarters for "Southeast Land Europe" in Izmir, command functions are today divided equally between Greek, Turkish, and U.S. officers. These NATO commanders, in their multi-uniforms, frankly admit that "this alliance has little hope of accomplishing anything beyond deterrance and defense. Ultimate control over the Straits," they say, "will be crucial for naval and land operations in any future war, and it will take the Russians at least 50 or 60 divisions to break through...
Menderes immediately introduced a bill restoring the lost province. Then his budget sailed through-opposed by Inonu's followers, but with such decorum and restraint as the Assembly had not witnessed in years. Last week, at a party congress in Izmir, Inonu saluted Menderes' pledge as "the beginning of a new political era in Turkey." Inonu set out politely but firmly the terms on which the party of the late great Kemal Ataturk would back "Mr. Menderes' announced policy of political peace": 1) removal of political pressure on the courts; 2) freeing of the press from restrictive...
...episode among NATO partners matches the savage anti-Greek riots that swept Izmir and Istanbul the night of Sept. 6, 1955. Until then the mutual quarrel over Cyprus had been furiously propagandistic but not violent. That night, ostensibly aroused by reports of an explo sion in Salonika that damaged the birthplace of Turkey's late great Kemal Ataturk, the rioters swarmed through the streets wrecking and smashing anything Greek. In one night of Turkish terror, 300 people were injured, 4,000 stores looted, 78 Greek Orthodox churches gutted...
Greek Foreign Minister to London. But the British also invited Turkey. The conference broke up in bitterness. A bomb exploded in the Turkish consulate at Salonika (Greece); in retaliation Turks erupted in savage riots against Greek minorities in Istanbul, Izmir and Ankara. By now Greeks were thoroughly aroused against both their NATO partners, Britain and Turkey; they got mad at the U.S. as well when the State Department ineptly expressed equal concern to both Turkey and Greece...
Assigned Duties. In Izmir, Turkey, asked by the judge while on trial for committing six burglaries if he really had a record of 50 previous offenses, Suleyman Senaylar replied: "My profession is to steal; keeping count is the job of the police. That is what we pay them...