Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Turkey insists that it will closely supervise the crops. U.S. officials are less sanguine, for good reason. Turkey has been notoriously lax in controlling opium smuggling in the past, and its actions so far hardly indicate that it will change...
...revived drug network delivering its small packets of white powder back into the bloodstream of the nation's cities has caused the House Foreign Affairs Committee to call a meeting this month. The prime topic: a bill to suspend the $236 million military-and economic-aid program to Turkey unless poppy growing is halted. But such retaliation is unlikely. Turkish officials have already suggested that if U.S. aid is cut off, the country will consider removal of the 24 American military installations based there as part of the NATO defense system...
...Life. Turkey's decision to end its ban on opium production was based on compelling-if shortsighted -domestic considerations...
...peasant was ten times more than the profit earned from the annual legal exports of opium-but far less than the farmers could make on the illicit market. Moreover, poppy growing had been a way of life for centuries for 100,000 Turks, and neither the U.S. or Turkey was able to find a substitute crop for them to cultivate profitably. With no addiction problem in Turkey, the growers saw themselves as victims of an "American problem...
...turned production back to the private two-acre farms rather than trying to limit opium growing to state-run agricultural enterprises, where control is easier. It has also granted amnesty to hundreds of convicted opium smugglers. All this adds up to a triumph for Turkish pride and nationalism-and Turkey's deadly white flower...