Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nations now embroiled in the Middle East, Turkey is the only one that the U.S. is treaty-bound (in NATO) to defend. The sturdy and staunchly anti-Communist Turks are caught by geography between the Soviet Union and Syria. To guard their freedom, they keep 500,000 men under arms, and even with U.S. aid have a heavy defense burden. In addition, after centuries of feudalistic Ottoman rule, the Turks have tried to rush pell-mell into a modern industrial economy. Turkish Premier Adnan Menderes has spent more for public improvements than the economy could stand, and the Turkish economy...
...repairs on mosques in farm villages. It declared a one-year moratorium on $345 million in farmers' debts to the government. This was familiar pork-barrel politics. But in his determination to win the October election, Menderes added another touch. His supporters rammed through a law that forbids Turkey's three other parties to form an election coalition against Menderes. The law prevents candidates from changing parties and bars mixed tickets...
...this point those who might be willing to forgive Menderes for rushing the economy ahead too fast were less willing to forgive his rushing Turkey's democracy backward so quickly. Democracy came to modern Turkey during the long, enlightened dictatorship of Kemal Ataturk (1923-38); his chosen successor, Ismet Inonu, was beaten at the polls in 1950, and obeying the popular mandate, turned over power to the Democrats. Last week Republican Inonu, a frail but forthright 72, waved Turkey's bill of rights before the assembly and charged that the Menderes government had trampled on freedom, suppressed...
...visited Moscow last year, Mikoyan pressed them to visit his home republic of Armenia. Khrushchev joined in, saying that the Armenian climate was good, even though the food and wine were terrible. In due course, Foreign Minister Christian Pineau flew to Yerevan, capital of the Armenian Soviet Republic, on Turkey's eastern border. At his hotel Pineau was confronted by hundreds of French-speaking Armenians who had been lured back from France after World War II by Soviet blandishments to "come home and help build a new Armenian homeland." They greeted Pineau with tales of hardship and persecution...
...RICH IRAN plans to build a 620-mile pipeline to carry between 140,000 and 190,000 bbl. a day from its rich Qum field (TIME, May 6) to Turkey's Mediterranean port of Iskenderun. Idea appeals to Western oilmen because new line would avoid Redlining Syria. But Iran must raise $500 million for the job, and may hold back if Western nations work out plan to build their own line around Syria...