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Those are only a few of the voices of Islam, as powerful and compelling today as the muezzin's ancient call of the faithful to prayer. The voices speak Russian and Chinese, Persian and French, Berber and Malay, Turkish and Urdu?and Arabic, of course, the mother tongue of the Prophet Muhammad and language of Islam's holy book, the Koran. Islam is the world's youngest universal faith, and the second largest, with 750 million adherents, to about 985 million for Christianity. Across the eastern hemisphere, but primarily in that strategic crescent that straddles the crossroads of three continents...
...Muslims and the Alevis, a Shi'ite sect, has recently injected a dangerous new element into the country's chronic political instability. Ancient rivalries between the two groups are being exploited by both right-and left-wing extremists. Last December Sunni gangs massacred a hundred Alevis in the southern Turkish town of Maras. But unlike the Shah's Iran, Turkey has a functioning democratic system, and no single issue or popular figure unites the opposition. The government is fearful, however, that "political opportunists" will try to capitalize on religious rancor. Premier Bülent Ecevit has launched a vigorous television...
...vital step would be to shore up the friendly Bulent Ecevit government in Turkey. Said Tahtinen: "We have to find a way to keep the present Turkish government afloat, to provide it $2 billion a year for the next five years to prevent a collapse." The aid should come, Tahtinen felt, not only from the U.S. but from other NATO countries and possibly Saudi Arabia, "which has an interest in stability in the region...
Bill: What's wrong with getting people that speak Arabic, Persian, and Turkish and Urdu out there in the boondocks getting in touch with religious leaders...
...Turkish-American relations have decidedly improved since the lifting of the U.S. arms embargo, which had deeply embittered a longtime ally. The continued solidity and loyalty of this large democratic nation bordering on the Soviet Union is important to the West. Turkey provides NATO with airfields, supply and ammunition depots, communication and surveillance stations to monitor Soviet air and naval activities, missile and nuclear-weapons tests...