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...part of our Bicentennial observance, TIME asked leaders of nations round the world to address the American people through the pages of TIME on how they view the U.S. and what they hope-and expect-from the nation in the years ahead. This message from Premier Süleyman Demirel of Turkey is the eighth in the series...
...Turks announced that they would sign the Helsinki declaration, known as the "Final Act," with a unilateral reservation that none of its provisions would be valid for Cyprus until a "legitimate representative" of the island republic had signed. During a private meeting, Ford offered Turkish Premier Süleyman Demirel $50 million in grant aid if he would return control of military bases in Turkey to the U.S. Angry over the U.S. Congress's cutoff of aid, Demirel refused (see story page...
Afraid that the latest incident could bring down his shaky government, Premier Süleyman Demirel ordered troops to raid Middle East Technical University outside Ankara, a center of leftist student activity. Students threw sticks of dynamite and fired pistols from dormitory roofs: one student and one soldier were killed. Disturbances erupted elsewhere in Ankara as college and high school students went on a rampage, and Demirel reluctantly considered imposing martial law. The reason he hesitated was that his Justice Party has a narrow margin in Parliament (225 to 220), and its rejection of a proposal to proclaim martial...
State of Limbo. The kidnaping, like the recent bombings, is thought to have been the work of a Maoist guerrilla group known as Dev-genc (a Turkish acronym for "revolutionary youth movement"). Premier Süleyman Demirel has been reluctant to deal harshly with terrorists, lest he acquire the reputation for repression that brought down Premier Adnan Menderes and led to his hanging. Nevertheless, last week Demirel asked parliament to widen his government's powers to control the violence...
Turkey has received a $3,000,000 loan from the U.S. to finance the war on narcotics. Under U.S. prodding, Prime Minister Süleyman Demirel issued a decree in June reducing the number of legal poppy-growing provinces from nine to seven by next year. He also submitted to Parliament a bill that would increase the jail term for illegal poppy growing from an insignificant six months to two years. Much of the pressure on Demirel was brought by a U.S. threat to cancel a much-needed $40 million loan to Turkey for economic development...