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...generals, replaced the democratically elected government of Premier Süleyman Demirel. Evren, 62, a political moderate who heads the junta, said in a radio announcement that the army had moved to prevent "followers of fascist and Communist ideologies, as well as religious fanatics, from destroying the Turkish Republic...
Twice before, in 1960 and 1971, the military had intervened to get the civilian government on track; each time the generals handed power back to the politicians as soon as possible. Indeed, the Turkish constitution authorizes the military to step in whenever the security of the state is in jeopardy. As their repeated warnings to the government indicated, Evren and his colleagues were anything but eager to take over. They were aware that a suspension of parliamentary government would threaten vital economic aid from the West and that military rule might even encourage further terrorist activity...
...welcome diversion, a fantasy land where oil-rich Americans have fun making themselves miserable. And in Turkey, the head of the Muslim fundamentalist National Salvation Party presented a 16-page ultimatum that included "the elimination of Dallas from television programs" because it is "degrading and aims at destroying Turkish family life...
Everybody who was anybody in Ankara should have attended the Belgian embassy's National Day reception last week. But as the evening wore on, the partying diplomats and politicians made a chilling observation: not a single Turkish general or admiral was present. Within hours of the reception, rumors were sweeping Turkey's capital that the country's top military commanders were in an emergency meeting plotting a takeover. As it turned out, the officers were merely attending a military wedding, but the wave of jitters was a barometer of the mood in a country where terrorist violence...
...hustling on defense. The boy himself is being slyly propositioned by marvelously straight-faced Pilot Graves. "Have you ever seen a grownup man naked?" he inquires in the same tone he might use to describe the flight plan. Eliciting no response, he tries a subtler approach: "Do you like Turkish prison movies...