Word: turkish
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...planned White House meeting Wednesday with President Clinton, Turkish Prime Minister Tansu Ciller told TIME that her massive raids against Kurdish rebels across the Iraqi border are nearing an end, which should assuage growing nervousness on the part of U.S. and other Western allies concerning the military operation. Ciller also said that oil-producing nations are aiding Islamic opposition within Turkey, long a key democratic and economic Western ally. In an interview with TIME editors in New York, Ciller said she had begun to withdraw some of the 35,000 Turkish troops from the anarchic region of northern Iraq...
Nina Solarz, wife of former New York congressman Stephen Solarz, agreed today to plead guilty to two misdemeanor charges of writing a bad check on her husband's House bank account and improperly taking $7,500 from the American Friends of Turkish Women, a charity she runs. Mrs. Solarz admitted that she knew her husband's House account was overdrawn when she ordered a congressional staffer to write a check for $5,200 in 1990. She is not expected to serve jailtime. Ex-Rep. Solarz, who himself had a large number of overdrafts from the House Bank, was cleared...
...central Germany, police arrested four Kurdish militants in connection with a string of fire bombings targeted at Turkish property across the country. Over the past month, more than 100 Turkish travel agencies, stores, banks, newspaper offices, mosques, cultural centers and meeting halls in 15 German cities have been hit by Molotov cocktails. Officials suspect the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party, which has waged an 11-year war for an independent Kurdish homeland...
...Turkish forces invaded Iraq to attack Kurdish separatists fighting an 11-year-old guerrilla war in southeastern Turkey. The incursion, Turkey's largest military intervention since its invasion of Cyprus in 1974, involved 35,000 troops. Said Turkish Prime Minister Tansu Ciller: "We are determined that in this final operation, the job will definitively be done...
What is evident is that both men live luxuriously by Kurdish standards, with foreign cars and cushy mountain retreats. Most Kurds, while not starving, barely eke out a living with the help of relief supplies from the U.N. and Turkish Red Crescent. This year's harvest has been good, but prices have skyrocketed because of the factional fighting. Children maimed by terrorist bombs, which each party accuses the other of planting, lie with gangrenous limbs in hospitals where there is little medicine or equipment to treat them...