Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...subcommittee also considered reworking Anthropology 161, "Social Anthropology of the Middle East," to serve as a Core course, emphasizing Turkey and Iran, he added...
...assault on the prison. After deciding that the unit was too small for the job, claims Perot, he arranged for a mob to do the job. There was indeed a prison break, and the two Americans escaped with thousands of other prisoners. They made their way overland to Turkey with the commandos, and from there flew to the U.S. Said Chiapparoni when he arrived in Dallas last week: "I always wanted to work with a company that cares about its people...
Violence has been intensified by social tensions arising from the economic crisis. Turkey never recovered from the oil price hikes of 1973-74; it has teetered on the edge of bankruptcy since. Turkey has run out of foreign exchange, and its foreign debt has tripled since 1970, to $12 billion. The government says the annual inflation rate is 42%, but independent estimates put it closer to 60%. An industrial slump has idled half of plant capacity and pushed unemployment to 20%. There are daily blackouts of electrical power, and shortages of everything from margarine to light bulbs. Even traditional Turkish...
...Soviet Union has been glad to offer $1.8 billion in economic aid over the past decade as part of its courtship aimed at loosening Turkey's ties with NATO. However, despite friendly recent gestures of his own toward Moscow, Ecevit is considered a confirmed Westerner who has no intention of allowing Turkey to drift into neutralism...
Turkish-American relations have decidedly improved since the lifting of the U.S. arms embargo, which had deeply embittered a longtime ally. The continued solidity and loyalty of this large democratic nation bordering on the Soviet Union is important to the West. Turkey provides NATO with airfields, supply and ammunition depots, communication and surveillance stations to monitor Soviet air and naval activities, missile and nuclear-weapons tests...