Word: rk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...root of the rising anti-Americanism, reports TIME Correspondent Dan Coggin, is the fact that the proud and xenophobic Turks resent any sign of dependence on the U.S. "Atatürk's death in 1938 left Turkey in a limbo of incomplete Westernization," writes Coggin. "City-bred granddaughters of veiled harem favorites practice law and medicine in Ankara and Istanbul today. But in the Moslem countryside and small towns, where 80% of Turkey's 35 million people live, little has changed from centuries...