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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...
...crisis is both financial and political, touched off during a meeting last Monday of the National Security Council when Sezer accused Ecevit of being soft on corruption and pushed a copy of the Turkish constitution across the table at him, only to have it flung back by an Ecevit aide. The Prime Minister then stormed out, announcing, "This is a serious crisis." While there undoubtedly was conflict inside the conference room in Ankara, the "serious crisis" developed when Ecevit left. His remark was widely taken as a sign that his fragile three-party coalition-formed in mid-1999-was losing...
...challenge to Turkey's political establishment is not just facing up to the economic crisis but dealing with popular demands to get its house in order. So far, public opinion appears to be siding with Sezer-seen as a white knight in the dark den of Ankara politics. On the other hand, it is Ecevit's job, not his, to keep the unwieldy coalition together. So what happens next? No immediate resignations are expected, but no one will be going into the next elections (due by April 2004) on a platform of having restored prosperity. The Turkish military, which watched...
...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...
...This currency crisis started when Sezer accused Ecevit of being soft on corruption at a meeting Monday of Turkey's National Security Council - and pushed a copy of the Turkish constitution across the table at him. One of Ecevit's aides threw it back at Sezer, and Ecevit stormed out of the meeting - right into the arms of the waiting press pack, and snapped, "This is a serious crisis...