Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...misgivings about the Archbishop's reasons for not demanding a definite date for self-determination (thus giving him the opportunity to raise the issue whenever he wished), the British were in a mood to go ahead with a new offer to the Cypriots. There remained one more snag-Turkey...
...Turks welcome British control of Cyprus because the base also protects Turkey, and because they, as co-partners in the Baghdad Pact, see eye to eye with British policy in the Middle East. They have said that they will not tolerate control of Cyprus by Greece, a country which they fear might, at some change of government, easily become neutralist. Cyprus is only 40 miles from the Turkish mainland, and governs the southern approaches to that country. A neutralist Cyprus would compel the Turks to reorient their whole defense...
Coming at a time when Turkey is worried about Cyprus and courted by Russia, the resignation last week of Foreign Minister Fuad Koprulu had international overtones. But Dr. Koprulu was specific: "My resignation has no connection with external problems." An Ottoman scholar and a member of a distinguished family (which produced several Grand Viziers), Koprulu, 66, had stepped down from the government for reasons that were even more fundamental than foreign policy: the growing instability of the country and its government...
...Though Turkey's muzzled press was virtually forbidden to speculate on Koprulu's resignation, most observers knew that it was the outcome of a struggle for control of Istanbul's provincial Democratic Party organization. His opponent was Dr. Mukerrem Sarol, a gynecologist, who was dropped from the Cabinet last year under a cloud of influence-peddling charges. Dr. Koprulu had long held that Sarol should be purged from the party, and he was in fact ousted for a while. But of late Sarol has been more and more often in the company of Premier Adnan Menderes. Last...
...plight and the government's shortcomings in coping with it have been reported fully in opposition (Republican) and independent newspapers in Istanbul and Ankara, which vigorously protested the gag. Warned Opposition Leader General Ismet Inonu, former Turkish President: "We are going toward totalitarianism." The only hope was that Turkey's newspapers, which boldly and cleverly evaded a less repressive press law of 1954, might find ways to make the new restrictions unenforceable...