Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unexpected atmosphere of sweetness and restraint has fallen on Turkey's landscape of savage political warfare, and no Turk can imagine how long it will last. Premier Adnan Menderes' economic troubles seem to be at the bottom of it. While exploiting his Democratic Party's 455-to-86 Assembly majority to enact a whole series of laws curbing the press and restraining political discussions, the tough-minded Premier has pushed his all-out campaign to expand Turkey's productive capacity so far that Turkey is heading for a stern economic reckoning...
...instead of joining in the parliamentary free-for-all, grey, old (72) Republican Ismet Inonu, Turkey's respected World War II President who was so spectacularly overturned by Menderes' Democrats in the 1950 elections, rose from his third-row Opposition bench to say: "I appreciate the pressure on the government to pass this budget. I am prepared to help, provided I have a promise to open a debate on the problems of the political regime." To start with, gruffed the old pasha, let the government reconstitute the little province of Kirsehir, which it split up three years...
...group will include military personnel from the Netherlands, Canada, Denmark, Greece, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Turkey, Belgium, Luxembourg, the United Kingdom, France, and the United States...
Back in Washington, he reviewed several alternative plans prepared by the State Department's Policy Planning Staff. Three of these alternatives were: 1) U.S. adherence to the Baghdad Pact, which links the Northern Tier nations of Pakistan, Iraq, Iran and Turkey to Britain; 2) U.S. proposal of a "Middle East Charter" that would invite the area nations to subscribe to a statement of social and economic betterment for their peoples, with no reference to military considerations; 3) bilateral treaties between the U.S. and individual Arab states. Out of these policy papers Dulles borrowed some ideas, junked a great many...
...fiscal 1957 economic aid to Asia rose from $960 million to $1.14 billion, and total economic and military aid from $1.5 billion to well over $2 billion. In the same budget, only Greece and Turkey among European NATO powers got any economic...