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...Turkish officials identified the conspirators as members of Dev Sol, a leftist group responsible for killing an American near the Incirlik air base, outside Adana, during the allied bombing campaign against Iraq. According to the daily Milliyet, the group was planning to assassinate Bush in Ankara with a remote-controlled bomb that was to be planted either in Ataturk's Mausoleum, which he visited, or in a parked car that would explode as the President's limousine left the mausoleum. Maps found by police suggested that explosives were also to have been placed under the lids of sewage drains...
During his two-day visit to Turkey, George Bush watched whirling dervishes perform, sailed down the Bosporus and seemed calm and relaxed. That was pretty remarkable, considering that a few days earlier Turkish officials had foiled an elaborate plot to kill the U.S. President. Acting on information developed by Turkey's National Intelligence Organization, police mounted a series of raids on eight safe houses in Istanbul, killing 10 people and capturing 12 others involved in the attempt...
...Bolshoi tour was actually supposed to come from Entertainment Corporation U.S.A., a subsidiary of a British firm. But as the deadline neared, the sponsors filed for bankruptcy and the whole tour seemed in jeopardy. To the rescue, like some plumed boyar galloping across the steppes, came Ara Oztemel, a Turkish-born Armenian American who heads an East- West trading corporation named Satra (and plays a hot saxophone on the side). And so the show could go on. But the Bolshoi leaders are aware that they still face a daunting challenge. "Our task is not to return to the world stage...
...government of Kuwait has yet to be delivered. The Kuwaitis promised Ozal the money last autumn as thanks for his country's membership in the anti-Iraq coalition. The Turks claim they lost millions of dollars in fees by shutting down an Iraqi oil pipeline that cut through Turkish soil. U.S. officials are pressuring the Kuwaitis to pony up a substantial chunk of the aid before President Bush visits Turkey later this month...
Over time, though, returning home or at least relocating to one of the tent cities may begin to look more appealing to the Kurds than continuing to squat in their miserable mountain asylums along the border. Turkish forces patrolling their side of the frontier may speed up that reassessment. "When the weather gets better," says a U.N. worker, "the Turkish military will get the journalists out, then give the refugees a survival kit and push them out, at gunpoint if necessary." Other relief specialists add that within a month, the streams in the mountains will dry up, forcing the Kurds...