Word: turkeys
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...transit, access to petroleum and absence of Soviet military bases." But how willing are the countries involved to have the U.S. intervene to protect those interests? A quarter of a century ago, the U.S. tried to answer that by helping to organize a Southwest Asian defensive alliance that included Turkey, Iran and Pakistan, but the fall of the Shah last year brought the end of that alliance...
...biggest disaster that has befallen Western interests in the area in the past decade remains the collapse of the Shah?for which Moscow was not responsible. And the worst threat to Western interests in the near future is a spread of turmoil to Iraq, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, for which the Soviets might or might not be responsible?and for which Carter's proposals offer no remedy...
This does not mean, of course, that the area is beyond salvation. In a negative sense, Soviet aggression often brings a sobering new sense of the need for defensive action. The Saudi monarchy, the Pakistani military government and the crisis-prone leaders of Turkey may be sufficiently frightened by the example of Afghanistan, and impressed by the new look of the Carter Administration, to become more amenable to U.S. efforts to protect them and help them put their houses in order. Perhaps the Saudis will be more receptive to American pressure for a crackdown on corruption, one of several slow...
...Central Treaty Organization (CENTO) as part of a global network of anti-Soviet alliances. In effect, Dulles was drawing a line in the dust that the Soviets dared not step across lest they incur the thermonuclear wrath of the West. That line ran along the northern frontiers of Turkey, Iran and Pakistan, which were all members of CENTO. In keeping with Afghanistan's policy of nonalignment, it remained beyond the American "security perimeter" and was therefore vulnerable to its giant neighbor...
...Turkey's relations with Iran are nonetheless strained. Ankara last month recalled the families of its Iran-based diplomats after the Ayatullah Khomeini declared, "The regimes of Egypt, Iraq and Turkey are standing up thanks to bayonets...