Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Turkey & Cyprus...
...have just read "Another Country Heard From" in your July 16 issue. No human or divine law can give Turkey's totalitarian-minded Adnan Menderes the prerogative to object on grounds of security to self-determination rights being granted to 400,000 people living on an island more than 40 miles off Turkish shores. By the same, strange logic, suggestive of Adolf Hitler's Lebensraum dogma, France should object to the geographical proximity of the British Isles and the U.S.S.R. to Turkish sovereignty over the Dardanelles...
...when the West successfully pressed the Soviets to withdraw from Azerbaijan, in Belgrade in 1949, after Tito had been kicked out of the Cominform and was looking to the West for aid. His present mission: to make a new stab at reducing tensions between NATO partners Greece and Turkey over Cyprus, to dampen neutralist swings in Greece...
...will give him high marks for doing as much as he has to lessen his people's poverty, cure their diseases, school them and make a nation of them. It will recognize, too, that Nehru, like China's Sun Yat-sen and Turkey's Kemal Ataturk, has had a difficult and frustrating role to .play in bringing his people into democratic nationhood under tutelage. In these pursuits, Jawaharlal Nehru has his high place, even though he will not be an ally, and is not particularly a friend...
This small story, appearing last week in Bursa's satirical weekly Chivi, was one Turkish magazine's arch way of replying to Premier Adnan Menderes' recent clampdown on freedom of the press in Turkey (TIME, June 11). But though Chivi was only fooling, it soon found that Menderes was not. The ink was scarcely dry, when Chivi's editor was haled into court, fined 10,000 lire ($3,600) and sentenced to a year in jail for "writing with malicious and tendentious intent...