Word: ozal
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Similarly, Turkish Prime Minister Turgut Ozal visited Baghdad and gently took the Iraqis to task for attacking Turkish tankers carrying Iranian crude oil in the gulf, but he got little satisfaction. As Iraqi Information Minister Latif Nasif Jasim later explained, "How can we know which ship our rockets...
...condemned by everybody throughout the world." In Athens, the government of Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou was equally outraged at what it perceived to be another threat to Cyprus' Greeks. In Ankara, where a caretaker government is running the country until the installation of newly elected Prime Minister Turgut Ozal, officials who normally support Denktash insisted that they were as stunned as everyone else...
...only nation that recognized the new republic in the course of the week was, not surprisingly, Turkey. But even the Turks had reservations. "Wouldn't it have been better," asked Ozal after being informed of Denktash's proclamation by President Kenan Evren, "to do that after first strengthening Turkish Cyprus economically...
Denktash admitted that he had timed his announcement to take advantage of the interregnum in Ankara before Ozal is installed. "I caught them by surprise," he explained. "They would not have had me do this had they known in time." But his move was not taken solely with Ankara in mind. Denktash also sought to gain international attention, impatient as he is over the stalemate in negotiations with the Greeks. Moreover, some observers insist, he has personal ambitions. "He wouldn't be happy being the governor of a Turkish province [of a federal Cypriot republic]," said a Western diplomat...
...When Ozal takes office later this month, his powers will include the right to end the three-year state of martial law. But he will still be operating under the watchful eyes of Turkey's generals. Well aware of that fact, Ozal says that he intends to be "very careful. We should not let anarchy return to Turkey. But everybody should agree that martial law is not permanent...