Word: rightness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stepped in, it would have been very difficult to move on this question. The war is about land, and the British were protecting the settler element's right to keep land to themselves. But this does not mean we want to rob the white settlers of their land. The whites are an essential part of the country and therefore they must have some land as citizens. Only that land that is not fully utilized will be made available to other people. This arrangement would affect perhaps half of the white-controlled land. Private ownership is a foreign ideology...
...shortages of everything from coffee (Turkish coffee is available only on the black market) to diesel oil. Moreover, religious and ethnic feuds have led to a frightening increase in violence. In the past 21 months, 2,100 people have been killed, most of them in confrontations between left-and right-wing extremists...
...President Fahri Koruturk and resign; he declined to try to form a new government and recommended that the mandate be given to Demirel. The Justice Party holds only 183 seats in the 450-member house. To form a government, Demirel will have to put together a coalition with two right-wing groups, the Muslim Nationalist Salvation Party and the ultrarightist National Action Party. Neither is a very palatable partner for Demirel's moderate party...
...logical thing would be for Ecevit and Demirel to team up in a "grand coalition" of their two parties, which together poll more than 70% of the vote. Both are very near the center, with the Justice Party leaning a bit to the right and the Republicans to the left. But such a coalition appears impossible, because of the personal animosity and bitter rivalry between the two men. They are totally different in style and personality: Ecevit, 54, is an intense, ulcer-suffering intellectual and poet; Demirel, 55, is a talkative extravert and was a successful private businessman before...
...state has the legitimate right of self-defense. We will allow political dissent but not delinquency." At week's end the terrorists announced that they would halt their offensive, but renew it if the new government failed to deliver on its promised reforms...