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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...generals clearly had been provoked by an ugly outbreak of Turkey's apparently incurable disease: political violence. The week before New Year's, in defiance of the martial law in force in 19 of Turkey's 67 provinces, the left-leaning, 150,000-member national teachers union called a nationwide strike. The result: six people were killed and more than 3,500 students and teachers were detained in clashes between strikers and government forces in Istanbul, Ankara and the Mediterranean city of Adana. In Ankara, when police and troops pursued rioters into the teeming, jerry-built slums...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: A New Year's Warning | 1/14/1980 | See Source »

...latest mayhem brought the death toll from two years of extremist violence in Turkey to more than 2,500. Eight to ten people have been killed each day since Demirel, 55, became Premier. The combatants in the daily armed street battles are from both extremes. On one side are rightist gangs like the "Gray Wolves," often associated with the National Action Party, an ultraconservative group. On the other are the more numerous leftist, often campus-based, organizations such as the Marxist-Leninist Armed Propaganda Squad and the Turkish Workers and Peasants Liberation Army. There have also been signs, some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: A New Year's Warning | 1/14/1980 | See Source »

...major cause of Turkey's political polarization and consequent violence is economic. Turkey has still not pulled away from the edge of bankruptcy that it faced last year, when 24 predominantly Western nations promised it $1.5 billion in emergency assistance. Since then inflation has soared to an annual rate close to 100%, unemployment continues to hover stubbornly around 20% and industry, because of oil and other raw material shortages, is running at less than 50% capacity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: A New Year's Warning | 1/14/1980 | See Source »

Some observers believe that the sheer intractability of Turkey's economic woes may be the surest deterrent to a military takeover: the generals themselves do not believe they have any solutions. Another restraining factor may be the delicate state of U.S.-Turkish negotiations and the question of U.S. use of Turkish bases. In 1975 the U.S. imposed an arms embargo on Turkey as a penalty for its 1974 invasion of Cyprus. In return, Ankara closed down four of the U.S.'s 26 bases and listening posts in the country. When Congress lifted the embargo in 1978, Turkey received...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: A New Year's Warning | 1/14/1980 | See Source »

...center Republican People's Party. Yet there was one sign of a benefit from the memorandum. As the Assembly last week began discussing tougher antiterrorism legislation, Ecevit announced that his party would support the package with only minor changes. If that sort of cooperation should also fail, Turkey's military could well feel compelled to install its own system of government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: A New Year's Warning | 1/14/1980 | See Source »

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