Word: kusadasi
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...Milk Sir: From the size and activity of the black market here in Ankara, it's a wonder Kusadasi isn't filled with people banished by the Turkish government for illegal trading [July 30]. Many shops carry a bewildering variety of American goods and sell them at enormous prices. The supply seems to be quite regular. We are Americans living on the Turkish economy, and it hurts to pay 20 Turkish lira (about $2) for a box of dry milk stamped...
...Turkish government last week rescinded a little law requiring internal exile for foreigners convicted of certain minor crimes. Most such exiles would have been overjoyed; not so U.S. Army Private Kenneth Baldwin, 30, whose banishment to isolated Kusadasi has turned out to be more a reward than a punishment (TIME, June...
Convicted of selling a PX-purchased tape recorder on the black market, Baldwin was sentenced to ten months in a Turkish prison, followed by a 21 year stretch of village life in Kusadasi. Undaunted, he set about learning Turkish and making friends, tackled the port town's problems with the energy of a squad of Peace Corpsmen. Kusadasians dubbed him Kemal, "The Perfect...
...discharge. Kusadasians argued that Baldwin would be put to an economic hardship if he had to pay his fare from the U.S. back to Turkey, and in letters, telegrams and telephone calls to U.S. officials pleaded that he be allowed to stay. Baldwin, who had found a home in Kusadasi, enthusiastically concurred. Said he: "They never looked down on me because I was a jailbird. Instead, they have helped me, and I want to repay them by helping them...
...Banished American" [June 25]: It seems to me that while in Kusadasi, Ken Baldwin has not only served adequate time for his circumstantial crime, but has taken a somewhat distasteful situation and converted it into a diplomatic mission. Since he has done so much to ease and elevate the Turkish view of America, I can see no reason why the U.S. Army can't find the compassion in its heart to pardon Mr. Baldwin...