Word: turkeys
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...even giving has its problems. Secretary of Defense Frank Carlucci irritated his Tokyo hosts last month by calling for increased Japanese aid to nations that he termed vital to "our collective security." Carlucci named * the Philippines as one such country and added Turkey, Portugal, Pakistan and Afghanistan to the list. The appalled Japanese disavowed any ties between aid to the Philippines and American interests. Filipinos, however, scarcely doubt that recent Japanese donations have been partly aimed at inducing Manila to renew the leases on U.S. bases on favorable terms...
...Although Turkey's Prime Minister Turgut Ozal, 61, has led his nation to a new level of economic and social advancement during five years of leadership, last week was one that he may want to forget. First, Ozal's historic meeting in Greece with Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou to settle differences between their nations ended in an affable but thorough stalemate. Back home in Ankara, while Ozal was addressing a rally of his center-right Motherland Party, a man in the crowd opened fire with a gun, wounding the Prime Minister in the thumb...
Today's tourists are discovering a Turkey that transcends popular stereotypes. In Istanbul they jam the Topkapi Palace to gaze at the 400-room harem of the sultanate and to view its incomparable treasury of emeralds, diamonds, gold and ivory. They pack the Blue Mosque and the other masterpieces of Mehmet Aga, Turkey's great 17th century architect. Bargain hunters fill the cavernous covered bazaar looking for rugs, leather goods and gold. To the south, near Izmir, tour guides jockey for position at the ruins of Ephesus, where the main attraction is the Temple of Artemis, one of the Seven...
...million people visited Turkey, a 20% increase over the previous year. The tourists injected about $1.3 billion into a faltering economy; the annual inflation rate is a devastating 70%. This year the country expects to reap about $2 billion from an anticipated 3 million visitors. These numbers still pale beside the 7 million tourists who flock each year to neighboring Greece, a country that boasts about a fifth of Turkey's population of 55 million. But, according to a recent report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, tourism in Turkey is growing faster than...
Partly because of their long-standing prejudices and misconceptions, Americans accounted for only 6% of foreign visitors last year. "We were a bit frightened about Turkey," says Chuck Pyfer, a physician from Eugene, Ore., who is backpacking through the country with his wife Kathy. "All our friends asked us, 'Why would you ever want to go there?' " After first visiting Greece and one of its islands, Kos, about six miles off the Turkish coast, the Pyfers decided on the spur of the moment to see Bodrum. They loved what they found. "The people are gentle and gracious, and the villages...