Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Said Ecevit: "There has been ample freedom in Turkey for 50 years. Those who oppose the regime here hanker for an authoritarian regime, whether of the right or the left. Because our people are attached to democracy [the extremists] cannot get support...
...Under certain conditions we can solve our problems. These include a reasonable degree of political stability and international financial aid for the next two years, beginning without delay. The reason I am optimistic is that Turkey has a vast number of well-trained and well-educated people. We have unexploited mineral resources. We can earn more from tourism than from exports. And we can export construction and engineering services to regional countries. But we are in a very volatile situation. The opposition has chosen this particular period to stir up a government crisis, which will hamper our opportunity to restore...
...Government has been watching the seemingly chronic economic and political crisis in Turkey with alarm, frustration and a measure of self-recrimination. TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott reports...
When Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev sat down in Vienna last week for a 90-minute private session, with only their interpreters present, one of the most sensitive issues between them concerned Turkey. The U.S. wants to send U-2 spy planes into Turkish airspace to monitor missile tests from the Tyuratam launch site in Kazakhstan, about a thousand miles inside the U.S.S.R. To verify Soviet compliance with the missile modernization provisions of SALT II, American intelligence must be able to get as close as possible to launches from Tyuratam. Before the fall of the Shah, the U.S. relied largely...
...Cyprus crisis five years ago will never be fully repaired. Many in the Government see the U.S. as having abused a valued friendship. Says one U.S. diplomat: "People tend to forget that our three most important and successful postwar ventures in promoting democracy were Germany, Japan and Turkey." After a pause, he adds ruefully, "Of course, the Turks have practiced democracy so well that it often gets them tied into knots, as is happening right...