Word: turkeys
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...with military hardware. American base rights in Spain and Thailand have been a quid pro quo for weapons. Using arms sales to gain bases, however, sometimes makes the exporting country a hostage of the recipient. Ankara now threatens to expel the U.S. from some of its vital bases in Turkey because Congress stopped deliveries of military...
Reaction in Athens was equally bitter. As Greek warships and planes headed out to sea to protect contested waters between Greece and Turkey, Premier Constantine Caramanlis denounced the Turkish-Cypriot action as a "new Turkish coup." Although Greek defense officials acknowledged their inability to land successfully any kind of expeditionary force on Cyprus, one military commander in Athens warned that the situation was "only a breath" away from...
...which found itself in the awkward position of having alienated both of its crucial allies on NATO'S eastern flank, the crisis could hardly have come at a worse moment. Only the week before, Turkey had threatened to close American bases and reassess its participation in NATO in response to Congress's cutoff of U.S. military aid (TIME, Feb. 17). Moreover, the confrontation came just as U.S. relations with Athens were on the mend. Said George Mavros, chief opposition leader in the Greek Parliament: "It's unprecedented. I blame [Secretary of State Henry] Kissinger, and I blame...
There were hints that much more serious consequences might ensue-ranging from the closing of NATO'S vital early-warning installations in Turkey, which monitor troop movements and missile activity in the Soviet Union, to a gradual shift in the country's foreign policy toward a more neutral stance. As Parliamentary Deputy Haluk Ulman put it, "If the U.S. decides that it can live without Turkey, then Turkey must learn to live without the Western world." Turkish-Cypriot Leader Rauf Denktash, moreover, warned that the aid cutoff might provoke the proclamation of an independent Turkish-Cypriot state...
...suspension of arms assistance and sales involves a total package of more than $200 million, including $90 million in sales, $80 million in grants, and $10 million for supply services. Also covered by the ban is a $230 million contract for the modernization of Turkey's U.S.-made M48 tanks, which was to have begun in two years...