Word: turkishly
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...What started this, essentially, was a row between Turkey's prime minister, Bulent Ecevit, and its president, Ahmet Necdet Sezer. Ecevit is a classic Turkish machine politician, who's used to looking the other way at corruption in order to hang on to power. Sezer, meanwhile, was put up by the three-part coalition that was in power as a puppet, someone who would go along to get along. But like a Supreme Court Justice who doesn't vote the way you want, he's turned into a reformer and a real thorn in the side of those in power...
...This currency crisis started when Sezer accused Ecevit of being soft on corruption at a meeting Monday of Turkey's National Security Council - and pushed a copy of the Turkish constitution across the table at him. One of Ecevit's aides threw it back at Sezer, and Ecevit stormed out of the meeting - right into the arms of the waiting press pack, and snapped, "This is a serious crisis...
...paymaster for the political machine. Debts are routinely written off as political favors, and the operating loss for these banks is staggering because of it. Turkey's financial stability is seen by the markets to depend on getting the banks under control, but of course in the Turkish government this is difficult medicine to swallow...
...With Turkish politicians, the harder they're pressed, the harder they dig in. No one resigns out of accountability here. In fact, no one ever resigns for any reason whatsoever...
...most part, Turks believe that the Armenian lobby is wilfully misrepresenting history. The version taught in Turkish schools is that Armenians allowed themselves to be caught up in Great Power politics in an attempt to create their own state during World War I. Pro-Turkish historians dispute that 1.5 million Armenians died, but even they admit that between 300,00 and 600,000 perished. However Turks also died as the result of Armenian atrocities committed behind the lines of the advancing Russian army...