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...turn a new page in our relations with the countries of the eastern Mediterranean... [It] is a crucial step toward strengthening the vital southern flank of NATO." Washington expects that the Turks will reciprocate soon by allowing the U.S. to resume electronic monitoring of Soviet military activity from Turkish bases, which the Turks closed down three years...
Resuming full-scale shipments of arms to Turkey will strengthen NATO's southern flank. Almost twice the size of California, with a population of about 42 million, Turkey shares a 370-mile border with the Soviet Union. The 500,000-man Turkish armed forces are deservedly renowned for their ferocity. With more than 300 warplanes and nearly 3,000 tanks, they help tie down about 26 divisions of the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact, which otherwise might be deployed against NATO forces in Central Europe. Its location enables Turkey to monitor Soviet warships, including submarines, passing from the Black...
...controversial policy dates back to 1974 when Greek Cypriots overthrew the government of Cyprus, and Turkey invaded the island to protect the Turkish minority there. Using U.S. weapons that were specifically prohibited for other than defense purposes, the Turks eventually seized nearly half the island. They have been occupying it ever since...
...supposed to pressure the Turks to withdraw and accept a negotiated Cyprus settlement. Instead, the main result is that Western defenses have been weakened. Although a loophole in the embargo has enabled the Turks to receive some $425 million in U.S. arms, Washington officials are worried that the Turkish armed forces are seriously deteriorating. In addition, the U.S. wants to recover five key intelligence-collecting bases in Turkey, from which it had been electronically monitoring the Soviet Union, but which the Turks closed in retaliation against the embargo. As Carter summed up the problem, the embargo "has driven a wedge...
...getting the Senate to vote to lift the embargo was not simple. Senators were subjected to considerable pressure by the pro-Greek lobby. Democrat Paul Sarbanes of Maryland, for example, asserted that the embargo must remain because "at no point have there been concrete actions by the Turkish forces to return any of the fruits of their aggression." On the other side, the Administration applied more pressure than on any foreign issue since the Panama Canal treaties and the Middle East plane deal. Every Senator was reached at least once, and many met personally with Carter. The President had three...