Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...city, had been taken before the Turks agreed to rechannel their pursuit of, as they phrased it, "political and military balance," into negotiations in Geneva. Only 18 per cent of the total population of Cyprus is Turkish, while 80 per cent of the island's people are Greek. Nonetheless, Turkey proposed to separate the two nationalities and reserve over a third of the land in Cyprus for the ethnic Turkish minority...
...Ford administration has never questioned the partition of Cyprus. President Ford seems to believe that American security is tightly linked to other nations and their social structure and Cyprus--even Greece--seems less amenable to American interests than Turkey. Since the overthrow of the legitimate Cypriot government. NATO experts have visited Turkish occupied territory to study the possibility of setting up NATO bases there; President Makarios had resisted similar plans in 1964. Ford contends that Turkey's location is "critical" because, along with Iran, it seals the Soviet Union from the Arab oil producers...
Congress declined to join Ford in ticking off the strategic assets of the three disputing nations before it imposed an arms embargo on Turkey in February. Congressional law authorizes the use of American supplied weapons by foreign countries for defense purposes only and Turkey clearly violated this law. In May the Senate reversed its decision under pressure from the administration. It is doubtful that a simple resumption of aid--if the House also approves this--will promote any gestures of good will towards the Greek Cypriots or the United States, since the threat on an embargo never induced any compromises...
...grandly promised $250 million in aid and a nuclear reactor. To Sadat's chagrin, Congress delayed action on Nixon's promises. Moreover, Congress was giving "my good friend Henry," as Sadat has come to call Kissinger, a great deal of trouble. First Congress challenged his policies on Turkey and the Soviet Union, then two weeks ago no fewer than 76 Senators signed a letter advocating aid for Israel (TIME, June 2). Arab officials see this as evidence of erosion in Kissinger's domestic position, and they fear that it may spread to the Middle East problem...
...VIEW OF HIMSELF. With all the respect I have for [Turkey's] Atatürk, he was living in his time, as my father was living in his time. Neither of them made land reform. But I have. Neither of them thought of workers participating in profits and being co-owners of factories. That is why I say we do not have to copy anybody, any ideology. We have enough brains to devise what is best for ourselves...