Word: turkishly
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...safe side, the West Germans demanded that a number of Afghan, Turkish and East European exiles living in the country report to the police twice a day. Failure to comply would have meant a one-year prison sentence. Most of the names on the list were supplied by the Soviet embassy in Bonn...
...lavish gourmet feast, and the guests, clad in evening gowns and tailored suits, talk of Herodotus and scientific ethics over white wine, blanched vegetables and cheddar cheese fondue. In the seat of honor, Emily Vermeule, professor of Fine Arts, discusses her excavations in Cyprus during the Turkish invasion. It is Jim Mitchell's dream come true...
...NATO. Here is a unique problem: we belong to NATO, but this alliance refused to guarantee our frontiers [against Turkish attack]. Turkey has made many claims on operational control of the eastern Aegean, on the continental shelf, on control of air space. Many times Turkish leaders have even hinted that islands of the eastern Aegean are not necessarily Greek. We have to maintain a high level of readiness and modernize our armed forces. This costs us enormously when we should be spending our resources on education, health and development...
...Holland, Belgium, West Germany have been modernizing Turkish forces at a spectacular rate, so that the equilibrium in short order will be undermined...
...alienation from the U.S. The Johnson Administration made certain statements critical of the [military] dictatorship [that ruled Greece from 1967 to 1974], but in substance the U.S. and NATO accepted it. The second blow came in 1974 when Turkish troops armed by NATO and the U.S., using arms in violation of American law, invaded Cyprus. The third blow, and one still very much alive, is Turkey's claim on the Aegean while the U.S. modernizes Turkey's arsenal...