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Kohl is also expected to ignite a controversy by tackling one of West Germany's most touchy social issues: the fate of some 1.6 million Turkish Gastarbetter (guest workers) in the country. The Turks are the country's largest single foreign minority; most of them entered West Germany during the booming 1950s and 1960s, when there was a desperate shortage of labor. Now they are widely criticized for taking jobs away from West Germans or, conversely, consuming welfare benefits. Kohl has already warned that "the number of foreigners cannot remain at its current level." The Schmidt government tried...
...describing a milieu as familiar to him as the inside of a movie studio is to most Hollywood directors: a Turkish prison. This is not the glossy torture chamber of Midnight Express-no theatrical sadomasochism here, no melodramatizing of the color scheme, no soft-focus sexual groping-but a place where ordinary men endure the restless boredom of confinement. Five of them are given a week's pass to visit their families, and find that the same restrictions face them and their women on the outside. The country is a prison, every liberating impulse is indictable, and the more...
...inside are long, green and dimly lit; the walls are bare except for a spray of handwritten signs and arrows and random words scrawled on them, often in several handwritings. One of these appears every few yards: "Polish, Hebrew, Chinese." "Sufism, Hebrew, Polish, Czech." "Polish, Chinese, Hebrew, Tech Writing." "Turkish in 6 Divinity...
...report traces Agca's terrorist roots back to his native Turkey, where he had rubbed shoulders with extremists of both right and left. In July 1979 Agca pleaded guilty to the murder of moderate Turkish Journalist Abdi Ipekci; he escaped from prison five months later. In July 1980 Agca appeared in Sofia, Bulgaria. According to NBC, he spent seven weeks in the best hotels there, received a counterfeit Turkish passport and mingled with members of the Turkish Mafia, which has long run a thriving drugs-for-guns trade with the cooperation of Bulgaria's hard-line Communist regime...
...ourselves in the position of appearing to trade their protection for our own. But in fact President Kennedy had long since reached the conclusion that the outmoded and vulnerable missiles in Turkey should be withdrawn. In the spring of 1961 Secretary Rusk had begun the necessary discussions with high Turkish officials. These officials asked for delay, at least until Polaris submarines could be deployed in the Mediterranean. While the matter was not pressed to a conclusion in the following year and a half, the missile crisis itself reinforced the President's convictions. It was entirely right that the Soviet...