Word: turkish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Turkish Air Force jets boomed over the southern provincial capital of Maras, (pop. 136,000) early last week, while crack army and commando units took up positions in the usually quiet milleniums-old market city. But not even that show of Turkish government force was enough to quell thousands of Muslim rioters who rampaged for four days through Maraş, killing 102 people and injuring nearly 1,000. Additional armored vehicles and paratroops had to be moved in. Finally, an exhausted Premier Bülent Ecevit declared martial law in 13 provinces where clashes also had occurred. Said Ecevit...
...Sunni-Alevi split has been worsened by the left-right division of Turkish politics. In order to maintain his parliamentary majority, Ecevit has had to deal cautiously with extremist sentiment while carrying out a left-of-center program. Although the Premier was successful in ending the 3½-year-long U.S. arms embargo against Turkey, lifted last August, he also made some friendly overtures to the U.S.S.R. The gestures toward the Soviets have exacerbated feelings among extremist Ecevit opponents. One slogan shouted by Sunnis last week: COMMUNISTS TO MOSCOW...
...fall, Carter had run up an impressive string of victories on foreign and defense policies: ratification of the Panama Canal Treaty, sale of high-performance jet fighters to Egypt and Saudi Arabia, an end to the Turkish arms embargo, abandonment of the Navy's plans for a fifth nuclear-powered aircraft carrier...
...jolts did not have to bring belly laughs. As always, people liked to be scared. Probably the biggest hit of the fall was Midnight Express, the hyped-up story of an American college boy's escape from a Turkish jail. Without any visible means of box-office support, i.e., genuine stars, or even a few recognizable players, Express has already made $52 million. At the same time, the era of the disaster movie appears to be over. It cost $14 million to shoot The Swarm-the price of honey being what it is these days-but audiences decided that...
...grossing movies of the fall was Midnight Express, a true (well, partly true) story of American College Student Billy Hayes' 1975 escape from a Turkish prison. One of the surprise critical successes of 1978 was the movie life of Rock Singer Buddy Holly, who died in a plane crash in 1959. The next couple of years will loose a flood of screen biographies. Filming is completed on Heart Beat, the story of the three-way romance of Beat Generation Heroes Neal Cassady and Jack Kerouac and Cassady's wife Carolyn. Nick Nolte and Sissy Spacek play the Cassadys...