Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...were they the only ones troubled by the most serious crisis the island has faced since the 1974 invasion by Turkish troops. Because Denktash's action exacerbated already crackling tensions between Greece and Turkey, two NATO allies, it threatened further disruption on the alliance's southern flank at the very moment that NATO faces the volatile issue of deploying U.S. nuclear missiles in Western Europe. Groused the left-leaning Paris daily Libération: "The storm surrounding the Euromissiles wasn't enough. Cyprus had to be thrown in as well...
...surprise of Turkey's military rulers, a careful experiment in guided democracy veered slightly out of control last week. In the nation's first elections since the armed forces took power in 1980, the wrong man won-at least in the eyes of the military. The victor and new Prime Minister was Turgut Ozal, 56, a portly, easygoing former engineer whose conservative Motherland Party romped home with 45% of the 18.3 million votes and 211 seats in the 400-member Grand National Assembly. Said Hasan Esat Isik, a former Minister of Defense: "The Turkish people have shown they...
Only two days before the vote, President Kenan Evren, leader of the military coup three years ago, implicitly urged support for another candidate, retired General Turgut Sunalp, whose Nationalist Democracy Party was supposed to mop up Turkey's heavy right-wing vote. Instead, Sunalp's party straggled in a poor third with 23% of the vote, behind the moderate leftist Populist Party, which scored...
Ozal, however, may be just the kind of new blood that Turkey needs. He and his chief aides are technocrats who want to apply the best computer-age methods to politics. Ozal's greatest appeal to the voters lay in his record in dealing with the economy. As an undersecretary in the last civilian government, and subsequently Deputy Prime Minister in the military administration, he orchestrated an austerity program from 1980 to 1982 that brought inflation down to 30%, from an annual rate of 120%, while tripling the value of Turkish exports. In the future, Ozal told TIME Correspondent...
When Ozal takes office later this month, his powers will include the right to end the three-year state of martial law. But he will still be operating under the watchful eyes of Turkey's generals. Well aware of that fact, Ozal says that he intends to be "very careful. We should not let anarchy return to Turkey. But everybody should agree that martial law is not permanent...