Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Four. The U.S. could be grateful that it had so rugged an ally in so vital a location. As the one power that belongs to both NATO and the Baghdad Pact, Turkey is the anchor post in the chain of alliances that the free world has forged to head off Russian aggression. Possession of the Dardanelles gives the Turks the potential ability to close off the Red navy's only means of direct access to the Mediterranean.* If Turkey were not in the way, no substantial military force would stand between Russia and its dreams of domination...
...strategic terms, Turkey is one of the four areas that are vital (the others: Britain, Formosa. Okinawa) as IRBM sites if the West is to maintain its nuclear deterrent in the perilous period when Russia may have an intercontinental missile while the West has not. IRBMs launched from Turkish sites would reach well past Moscow, could command the industrial complex that lies west of the Urals...
Free Translation. With all his courage and steadfastness. Adnan Menderes is often a worry to Turkey's friends. Determined to remake his nation economically overnight, busy Premier Menderes has built so many dams and factories, spent so many lire, marks, dollars, pounds and francs that Turkey today has one of the world's most inflated currencies, and a credit rating so poor that even the Turkish Central Bank refuses to honor government orders to release foreign exchange. Neither near bankruptcy nor the appeals of his friends can persuade Menderes that the time has come to end his headlong...
Once, during a Menderes visit to Bonn, West Germany's brilliant Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard cautiously suggested that it might be wiser for Turkey to build only two new cement factories instead of the twelve that Menderes planned. Smiling courteously, Turkey's Premier-who speaks English, French and Greek but no German-replied: "C'est line affaire de notre cuisine inteérieure." Explained an Erhard aide: "In good German, this means, 'That's none of your goddam business...
With his every year in office, Menderes has become more autocratic, more sensitive to criticism. Striking out in fury at anyone questioning his policies, he has half smothered both the press and opposition political parties under a blanket of repressive legislation. Today, only seven years after Turkey won its graduation certificate as a democracy by peacefully voting out of office a regime of a quarter of a century's standing, the Turks again live in a society characterized by the over-the-shoulder glance to see who may be listening. Midnight Cable. Good or bad, the shape of Turkey...