Word: turkish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bargain. "I want to ski the down hill course where Bill Johnson won the gold medal," states Philadelphian John O'Neil. Though he cannot understand the words, Rizo Uzicanin recognizes the glint in the American's eye and beams at him from his stall in the old Turkish market. Such tourist fantasies are warmer to Uzicanin than the handcrafted woolens hanging from his shop front. "I've been on this corner 64 years," he says, "since I was a boy of seven with my father. We have never seen the prosperity that we have here since the Olympics...
...Cyprus with NATO arms, and since then it has occupied 37% of the island. Neither Turkey nor Greece has any business being in Cyprus. Cyprus is not Greek territory, but there are ethnic bonds of language, culture and history between Greece and Cyprus. What has NATO done to curb Turkish aggression...
...Turkish leaders have never accepted the legal status quo in the Aegean. They want either the partition of the Aegean or co-sovereignty over the region. They want half of the continental shelf in the eastern Aegean, and claim that Turkey, rather than Greece, has air-defense responsibility for an area that includes some of Greece's most important islands. It looks like the beginning of the dismemberment of Greece. Since all NATO exercises in the Aegean validate the Turkish viewpoint, we do not participate in them...
...military aid going to Turkey. Papandreou in turn hardened his stand toward NATO. Henceforth, he told a parliamentary group of his ruling Socialist party, Greece would not participate in any NATO exercises, in the Aegean or elsewhere, "unless the alliance changes its stance with regard to Greek- Turkish differences." By adding that condition, the Prime Minister left himself a loophole. Greece cannot afford to lose even an unsatisfactory U.S. aid package. Papandreou knows all too well that it would be impossible to replace such assistance with aid from any other source, including the Soviet Union...
Although his most recent and more somber release. "The Razor's Edge," was less popular at the box office than his comedy films, Murray said he was happy with his first attempt at a serious role. Moreover, Murray said, the World War I drama "was a big success at Turkish Army bases...