Word: turkish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been spokesman for such proposals as SALT II, the Panama Canal, and lifting the Turkish arms embargo...
...Israel, release two Palestinian prisoners in Egypt and provide a flight to a friendly Arab country. The gunmen, reported to belong to the Revolutionary Eagles of Palestine, part of a Syrian-backed faction of the P.L.O., threatened to blow up the building unless their demands were met. Two Turkish guards were killed and one Egyptian hostage died trying to escape. Heavily-armed Turkish troops took up positions around the building. Then several Palestinian guerrillas were flown in from Damascus to try to bring an end to the siege. After negotiating with them, the raiders on Sunday morning released their remaining...
...issue dramatizes the increased importance of the U.S.-Turkish relationship in the wake of the upheaval in Iran. It also illustrates the deterioration and current delicacy of that relationship. Before the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974 and the subsequent arms embargo imposed by Congress it would have been unthinkable for any government in Ankara to solicit a Soviet blessing for some thing like U-2 overflights. There is now widespread resignation in Washington that the damage done by the Cyprus crisis five years ago will never be fully repaired. Many in the Government see the U.S. as having abused...
...Carter Administration, like the Ford Administration, tends to blame Congress for overreacting to the Turkish occupation of Cyprus. The invasion was provoked by years of Greek-Cypriot repression of the Turkish minority on the island and by an abortive Athens-instigated coup in Nicosia. Ethnic loyalties have unquestionably played an unhelpful part in U.S. policy. An influential circle of a dozen or so legislators of Greek heritage rammed through the 1974 embargo, which was lifted only last year. The same "Greek lobby" was instrumental last week in blocking House approval of a $50 million military grant to Turkey. Since...
State Department and White House officials are hoping that four factors will curb the anti-Turkish feelings on Capitol Hill...