Word: turkish
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wiped out. Since the Neolithic Age, the Anatolian peninsula has been a crossroads of conquerors and civilizations. By official count, it is home to 20,000 monuments, 10,000 tombs, 5,000 mounds that may conceal buried settlements and 3,000 ancient cities belonging to 36 various pre-Turkish cultures. It is a virtual supermarket for antiquities -- and looters take their fill...
...desperately needs a program of austerity, Demirel is reluctant to impose such a remedy. In Turkey, where electoral rhetoric is colorful and expansive, Demirel customarily promises a lot more than his competitors. In the recent campaign, he told audiences that he would like to give two keys to every Turkish citizen -- one for a house, the other for a car. Demirel's political road show included a white stallion, the emblem of his party, and a rider. Horse and rider would rear up at the end of a fiery speech by Demirel, who would have sworn to sweep away Ozal...
...separatists that is spreading in the southeastern part of the country, where nearly half of Turkey's 12 million Kurds live. Ozal tried to start a dialogue with the Kurds. Demirel is expected to take a tougher stand. Fighting has already crossed the border into Iraq. Over the weekend, Turkish planes bombed Iraqi areas from which Kurdish guerrillas staged a raid into Turkey that killed 17 soldiers. The Kurdish issue could conceivably prevent Demirel from forming a new government with the Social Democratic Populist Party, which came in third in the election with 20.8% of the vote...
...problem was that the center-right U.D.F. polled just 34.5% of the vote, to the Socialists' 33.5%. This means that the U.D.F., if it is to rule without the former communists, will need the support of the Turkish minority, whose party won 7.4% of the vote and 24 seats in the new 240-member parliament. But the ethnic Turks, who were widely persecuted under the communists, are asking for at least one ministry -- a demand that the Socialists, in turn, are using to fan fears of Turkish separatism. Exactly how the U.D.F. deals with this dilemma will demonstrate to what...
...Batan, Mexico, he spends his days in silent battle with threats to the world's wheat crop. Recently Skovmand discovered a rare strain of wheat from eastern Turkey that is resistant to the Russian aphid, an invader that has so far cost American farmers $300 million. By using the Turkish strain to develop hearty new hybrid wheats, CIMMYT breeders may help growers outwit the aphid...