Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...central committee, later expelled nine other Deputies from the party. Next day, ten more Deputies quit the party with an angry cry of "dictatorship." But even though his popular and political support may have slumped, there are no Turks in view to challenge Menderes for the right to govern Turkey...
Those concerned with Turkey's sore plight wish that the Premier had shown himself as diligent in dealing with Turkey's deepening economic crisis as in dealing with his critics. They attribute much of this inconsistency to the man whom Menderes has chosen to direct economic affairs, a suave and resourceful protégé named Fatin Rustu Zorlu...
Zorlu is an ambitious, Paris-schooled diplomat who has risen swiftly to the posts of Deputy Premier and Acting Foreign Minister by his talent for improvising debt settlements, spouting statistics, and providing his boss with arguments to show that Turkey's economic situation is basically shipshape. Turkey's foreign-exchange deficits, Zorlu explains, are paltry little imbalances caused by the passing inconvenience of a couple of drought-shriveled harvests in a row. All the country needs is a "fund of maneuver," say $300 million, to see it through till the development program starts paying off around 1958. This...
...time and widely admitted talents to helping Middle Eastern governments with their economic planning. Thornburg told Menderes that 1) he was rushing ahead too fast with his industrial-development program; 2) there was so little overall planning and scientific management that barely half of the capital that Turkey was pouring into new industries was paying off in productive output. Thornburg's recommendations: immediate appointment of a coordinating committee with strong powers to channel investment, materials and production; postponement of some new capital projects into the 1960s; firm controls on imports, credit and priorities...
...poured more than $1.5 billion in military and economic aid into Turkey since 1948-with no regrets, and indeed, with results that speak well for Turkey. Stoutly anti-Communist well before the Western countries awoke to the extent of the U.S.S.R. menace, Turkey plunged resolutely into beefing up its army, sent a valiant 4,500-man brigade and replacements to Korea, accepted and promoted John Foster Dulles' concept of the "Northern Tier" alliance (see above). Last April Zorlu himself skillfully carried the West's position into the Bandung conference...