Word: turkish
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Navy's streak of misfortune continues. A Sea Sparrow missile fired off the aircraft carrier Saratoga slammed into the bridge of a Turkish destroyer in the Aegean Sea, killing five sailors including the ship's captain. Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Frank Kelso could offer no explanation for the accident, but preliminary indications were that human error was to blame. The incident, which occurred during NATO joint maneuvers, is being investigated by a team of three senior U.S. admirals...
...million in Turkey. A close American ally, Turkey is one of the few secular democracies in the Islamic world, making it an important positive influence in the Middle East as well as in Central and Southwest Asia. The mere prospect of independence for the Iraqi Kurds would inspire their Turkish brethren to step up the guerrilla war they have been waging against Ankara since the early 1980s...
That is largely why Bush let Saddam's army suppress the Iraqi Kurds and drive them into the mountains along the Turkish and Iranian borders, where many starved or froze to death. It was only because the Western media publicized those horrors that the Administration belatedly came to the Kurds' rescue. Along with other members of the anti-Saddam coalition, the U.S. has established an umbrella of armed force to safeguard the Iraqi Kurds above the 36th parallel. The area is now a de facto Kurdish state. It has an army and a democratically elected parliament, and it is developing...
...talks due to resume in October, the U.N. may be able to sponsor the creation of a "bizonal and bicommunal federal state": each of the two communities would have its own territory but share a number of ministries and government functions. Bulent Aliriza, a once -- and perhaps future -- Turkish Cypriot diplomat, who is currently a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, sees the makings of "the first settlement of an ethnic conflict in the new world order...
Cyprus is perhaps the best example of what might be called the John Donne principle of world affairs: no country is an island, entire of itself; every country is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. The "intercommunal" enmity between Greek and Turkish Cypriots has always been an extension of the regional feud between Greece and Turkey proper...