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President Ahmet Necdet Sezer, who cultivates the common touch, has his car stop at traffic lights. He still found himself involved in a devastating collision last week, a sudden political smash-up with Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit-over corruption and banking reform-that has left the International Monetary Fund's inflation-cutting program for the country a twisted wreck, the lira in free fall and Turkey's 66 million people facing even more inflation. By week's end both officials, chastened, had left the crash scene to attend international gatherings...
...What started this, essentially, was a row between Turkey's prime minister, Bulent Ecevit, and its president, Ahmet Necdet Sezer. Ecevit is a classic Turkish machine politician, who's used to looking the other way at corruption in order to hang on to power. Sezer, meanwhile, was put up by the three-part coalition that was in power as a puppet, someone who would go along to get along. But like a Supreme Court Justice who doesn't vote the way you want, he's turned into a reformer and a real thorn in the side of those in power...
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...Satanic Verses, remains under a Tehran death sentence pronounced five years ago and reconfirmed last month. Iranian operatives are suspected in the killings of Saudi and Jordanian intelligence agents as well as the murders of five Turkish intellectuals since 1990. "Turkey is a prime target," says Istanbul police chief Necdet Menzir, "because we are a Muslim country with a secular democratic system...
...Including the commanders of the army, General Muhittin Onur, the air force. General Irfan Tansel, and the navy, Admiral Necdet Uran, as well as 16 divisional commanders brought in from the field...