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Whose Memory? Later that day, at the separate trial of three Turkish cops charged with beating Sergeants Dale McCuistion and James King in an attempt to extract confessions from them, the Americans fared no better. The accused cops produced a parade of witnesses who claimed to have been present at the questioning of McCuistion and King and to have seen no signs of brutality. But when Sergeant McCuistion asked the judge to question one of the witnesses more closely on timing, the judge coolly remarked: "Well, who would think of marking down the date anyway." Nor did the court make...
This was not the opinion of Sergeant Proietti. Wrote he: "Did you know that since our apprehension until now, the Turkish police broke the [NATO Status of Forces Agreement] on 7 different occasions, excluding the beatings. What makes me sick is that our government is accepting it without an argument...
...flight of an arrow is impressive, as is the "freestyle" record of 937.13, done with a foot-held bow [Aug. 31]. The latter distance probably exceeds the best done by the Turks in the 15th and 16th centuries, but it must be remembered that all Turkish shooting was done with a hand-held bow. That the Turks were claiming distances approaching 1,000 yds. is, to the best of my knowledge, inaccurate. They measured their distances in a unit called guz, the exact value of which can only be approximated; my conclusion is that...
Seven weeks ago, when Turkish police arrested four U.S. sergeants stationed at NATO's southeastern headquarters in Izmir for alleged currency violations, U.S. Consul in Izmir Donald B. Eddy publicly pooh-poohed reports that two of the sergeants had been tortured into making confessions. Informed that a senior U.S. officer in the NATO command had supported the brutality charges, Eddy firmly informed newsmen: "In my opinion it is impossible for a responsible American officer to make such a statement." Last week the Izmir public prosecutor's office formally charged Police Inspector Yilmaz Capin and Policeman Ilhan Suyolcu with...
Banned by the court from discussion of the trial, Turkey's press last week dutifully made no direct reference to it. But in the newsmagazine Akis, which bitterly opposes the heavy-handed regime of Turkish Premier Adnan Menderes, there appeared, under the title "Ugly American," a feature story illustrated by a picture of career Diplomat Fletcher Warren. After deploring U.S. ambassadors who play footie with dictators, Akis recalled that Warren was U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela in the days of Dictator Perez Jimenez, concluded with the laconic statement that he is now Ambassador to Turkey...