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...some 100,000 troops, backed by tanks, F-16 fighter jets and attack helicopters. On Monday, a convoy of 50 military vehicles, loaded with soldiers and weapons, was seen heading toward the border, according to the Associated Press. In Istanbul, the capital Ankara and the port city of Mersin, thousands of protestors, wearing black ribbons and waving the Turkish flag, denounced the PKK attack. Across the country, public events and celebrations (including a concert by the American pop star Beyonce in Istanbul) were canceled to mourn the army deaths...
...result of such irritations, Turks reacted with delight rather than alarm at the sight of war preparations. People cheered as ships, carrying equipment obviously designed for amphibious operations, gathered in the Turkish port of Mersin. Antiaircraft guns were hauled to Qankaya, one of the tallest hills in the capital, to protect the presidential palace. Blackouts were ordered for Ankara and other cities...
...ancient civilization. Going up on the Black Sea coast at Eregli is a $235 million, government-subsidized iron and steel complex that will be stoked by coal from nearby deposits. A consortium of Royal Dutch/Shell, British Petroleum and Mobil Oil built a $56 million refinery that started cracking at Mersin on the southern coast last year. Recently Goodrich, U.S. Rubber and Italy's Pirelli set up plants in Turkey, and Chrysler will soon begin to assemble trucks. German businessmen opened a mushroom cannery and French entrepreneurs, discovering that Turkey is acrawl with snails, started canning escargots...
...election, assembling ostensibly to mark the 34th anniversary of the Turkish Republic, a crowd of Republicans burst into shouts of "Stolen votes!" mobbed Democratic Party headquarters, wrecked the city hall. In an exchange of stones and gunshots, a policeman and an eleven-year-old boy bystander were killed. At Mersin on the south coast, a Republican was shot and killed in a similar demonstration...
...Turkey recently contracted with the British for construction of deep-water piers at Alexandretta and Mersin, making these Cyprus-protected ports available to ships of large tonnage...