Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rebels, who had massed fresh forces and ammunition from Syria, were to launch a big attack shortly after the Iraqi coup. Had the U.S. not acted in time, the massacres would have dwarfed those of 1860* and would have been comparable only to the Armenian massacres in Turkey during World...
...were weary and fearful, might finally clear up the bloody mess on Cyprus. For six weeks an apparent softening had been noticeable in the Greek position, a willingness to explore a settlement that would not insist on the future rights of enosis, i.e., the union of Cyprus with Greece. Turkey, too, was so absorbed by the revolutionary turmoil of her Arab neighbors that Cyprus for the first time in months was off the front pages of Turkish newspapers...
...peoples of the Ottoman Empire. He warned that hostility to Iraq was "not in the interests of our country" and roundly condemned the government for publicly approving the U.S. and British landings in the Middle East. "The interventions in Lebanon and Jordan are problems that don't concern Turkey directly. Our statements and attitudes have not increased the love of these countries for Turkey...
...Menderes government itself recognized the new Iraqi regime. But hard-driving Premier Menderes could boast that his militantly pro-Western foreign policy (which Inonu also favors) had at least 359 million concrete advantages. Meeting in Paris, the 17-member Organization for European Economic Cooperation agreed to extend Turkey $100 million in credit ($50 million of it from West Germany), thereby triggered promises of at least another $234 million from the U.S. and $25 million from the International Monetary Fund...
...these desperately needed loans -Turkey's foreign indebtedness now runs over $1 billion, and many foreign concerns will no longer ship goods to Istanbul without cash on the barrelhead-Adnan Menderes promised to institute long overdue financial reforms, cut back on his grandiose economic-development program...