Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...areas of foreign-policy disagreement seemed to have shrunk in both size and importance, and the two governments had reached some new common ground. Especially gratifying to the British were two major decisions: ¶ The U.S. will join the military committee of the Baghdad Pact (Britain, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Turkey), as the British have long urged. Eisenhower & Co. made the decision shortly before the conference, announced it to the British as a highly pleasant surprise. The U.S. will not become a full member of the pact (as the British would like even better), but will take part in its planning...
...years hence, the U.S. is encouraging schemes to free Western Europe from its overwhelming dependence on the Suez Canal. Last week leaders of the oil industry met in London to draw plans for a $500 million pipeline from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean through Iraq and Turkey, and to examine other ways of getting around Nasser. The world's shipyards are working at capacity building supertankers to carry Persian Gulf oil around Africa at no greater cost per barrel than smaller tankers going through Nasser's nationalized ditch...
Next day Harding and the government reached a compromise. The government would accept the recent offer of NATO's Secretary-General Lord Ismay to undertake conciliation of the Cyprus dispute among Greece. Turkey and Britain. They also agreed to renew their offer to free Makarios (but not to return him to Cyprus), provided he publicly called on EOKA to cease all violence. But, at Harding's insistence, the government agreed to make no mention of negotiating with him, now or ever...
...Pasha." That afternoon Menderes, who for years has suggested that Inonu is little better than a superannuated blunderer, rose at his front desk to praise "my pasha" as "a statesman who holds an assured place in history as one of Turkey's greatest men." Then he said: "The government is willing to consider all the issues presented by the Opposition if they are presented in moderate ways...
...lost province. Then his budget sailed through-opposed by Inonu's followers, but with such decorum and restraint as the Assembly had not witnessed in years. Last week, at a party congress in Izmir, Inonu saluted Menderes' pledge as "the beginning of a new political era in Turkey." Inonu set out politely but firmly the terms on which the party of the late great Kemal Ataturk would back "Mr. Menderes' announced policy of political peace": 1) removal of political pressure on the courts; 2) freeing of the press from restrictive laws; 3) freeing of universities from "administrative...