Word: turkish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last Wednesday, walls began to shake and buckle in Muradiye, a hardscrabble, mud-and-stone mountain town near the Turko-Iranian border. Soon houses were crumbling across an area of 300 sq. mi. The worst Turkish earthquake in nearly 40 years, measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale,* had convulsed the eastern part of the country, with Muradiye at its epicenter. At week's end it was estimated that 5,000 people had died in the quake and its aftershocks; countless thousands of others were suffering from hunger and exposure...
...strong Turkish Third Army, stationed along the nearby Russian frontier, was pressed into the rescue operation, along with helicopter and air force units. But relief efforts during the first 24 hours were badly muddled. A gasoline shortage hindered rescuers until the government released emergency supplies. Drugs were in chronically short supply. Hundreds of bottles of freshly donated blood were left behind in Istanbul because Turkish airline authorities were unable to provide air transport for delivery. The reason: many of their planes were en route to Saudi Arabia, loaded with Moslem pilgrims intent on making the hadj. Only 400 tents...
...student leaders in the summer of 1973, he decided to proceed with a political maneuver that would buy him time. He abolished the monarchy, made himself president of a republic, and installed a civilian premier who promised elections in 1974. It was an attempt to impose a Brazilian or Turkish style solution to the crisis, with the fascist junta actually retaining full power behind a facade of fake democratic procedures. It was, of course, again vocally rejected by democratic public opinion and political leaders. The students were also promised elections for university students councils, but under the control of government...
...junta's criminal activities against the Republic of Cyprus, providing a pretext for the Turkish generals to proceed with their occupation of northern Cyprus, speeded the disintegration of the junta's power base in the army. As the Pike report showed, these activities were closely monitored by Kissinger and the Pentagon, who failed to lift a finger to prevent them despite the regular contacts between Ioannides and the CIA in Athens. The innocent blood that flowed abundantly in Greece and Cyprus brought about the restoration of democracy to its birthplace. Cyprus is, of course, still bleeding, with...
...will draw from the ideals upheld by the founders of her nation and the unique achievements of her glorious past. It is important for all the world that she succeeds. I want, on the occasion of the Bicentennial, to convey to the American people the warmest wishes of the Turkish nation for the further pursuit of the ideals of their great democracy...