Word: premier
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After Geneva, Carter planned to double back to London to address NATO leaders. This extra day in the British capital will give him a valuable opportunity to confer separately with Greek Premier Constantine Caramanlis and Turkish Premier Süleyman Demirel...
Meeting Carter this week in London, Turkish Premier Suleyman Demirel will undoubtedly complain that Greece is getting preferential treatment. Demirel will also stress that no Turkish government can negotiate a Cyprus agreement under U.S. pressure, particularly in the midst of an election campaign so violent that 36 people were killed last week in Istanbul...
...third the size of Turkey's, they were furious with Carter for giving any support at all to Ankara. Athenians who danced in the street when the President was elected are beginning to turn on him for being as anti-Greek as Henry Kissinger. Said one member of Premier Caramanlis' government last week: "So much had been expected from the Carter Administration. Instead, there appears the familiar American attitude: Turkey first, then we'll see about the Greeks...
Relations between the two countries depend in part on the outcome of Turkey's June 5 elections. Demirel's Justice Party is being challenged by the liberal Republican People's Party of former Premier Bulent Ecevit, who became something of a national hero by ordering the Cyprus invasion. Ecevit has been shot at four times on the hustings and angrily claims that his opponent prefers "pistols to polls." Although the campaign had been marred by violence, the nation was stunned by last week's massacre in Istanbul's Taksim Square, where 150,000 people...
...Though industrial output had edged upward to 89% of prerecession heights, inflation remains at 10% annually. Unemployment, at more than 1 million, or just below 5% of the labor force, is unacceptably high, providing the Communist-Socialist alliance with ammunition. Refusing to yield to pressures for a major reflation, Premier Raymond Barre now plans to pump only a modest $800 million into the economy during the next year. Businessmen, fearing a victory of the Communist-Socialist alliance in the 1978 elections, are delaying investments...