Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hagman-J.R. himself -to the country, the switchboard was swamped with requests for his private phone number. Citizens of such troubled Middle East nations as Lebanon and Jordan find the show a welcome diversion, a fantasy land where oil-rich Americans have fun making themselves miserable. And in Turkey, the head of the Muslim fundamentalist National Salvation Party presented a 16-page ultimatum that included "the elimination of Dallas from television programs" because it is "degrading and aims at destroying Turkish family life...
...square sockets of blue eye-shadow, widen as if receiving a communication of great profundity. The music swoons, surgest she scratches a few words in her little black book. More music. Cut back to the painting. Back to Angie. What is she writing? DePalma shows us: "Pick up Turkey...
...anybody in Ankara should have attended the Belgian embassy's National Day reception last week. But as the evening wore on, the partying diplomats and politicians made a chilling observation: not a single Turkish general or admiral was present. Within hours of the reception, rumors were sweeping Turkey's capital that the country's top military commanders were in an emergency meeting plotting a takeover. As it turned out, the officers were merely attending a military wedding, but the wave of jitters was a barometer of the mood in a country where terrorist violence has claimed...
...Turkey has been bedeviled by leftist violence since the late 1960s; with the rightists increasingly hitting back over the past ten years, the mood of violence is reaching a dangerous level. Gangs of extremists from both sides compete to take over and dominate whole villages and neighborhoods. Recently the army had to move into the Black Sea town of Fatsa, where a leftist government had assumed power with the help of an underground revolutionary group and was running things its own way. Sadly, the country's political leaders have been unable to unite completely in the face...
While the military has issued dire warnings that it will "not allow Turkey to be trampled underfoot by those who want to split the country," the soldiers appear unwilling to be dragged into a coup. Senior officers privately admit that there is little they can do to stop the killings beyond what they are already doing in the 20 provinces in which the army administers martial law. Moreover, intervention by the army would upset Turkey's Western allies, which are in no mood to tolerate a military dictatorship in a NATO country. A coup would also jeopardize the flow...