CODEL BYRD MEETING WITH PRESIDENT EVREN

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• Publication Date: February 1, 1988
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SUBJECT: CODEL BYRD MEETING WITH PRESIDENT EVREN
2. SUMMARY: THE KEY FEATURE OF CODEL BYRD'S FEB. 11
MEETING WITH THE TURKISH PRESIDENT WAS EVREN'S STRONG
EXPOSITION OF HIS PERCEPTION THAT TURKEY NEEDS
GREATER SUPPORT AND GREATER UNDERSTANDING OF ITS
CONTRIBUTIONS TO NATO. SEN. BYRD REASSURED EVREN
THAT TURKEY HAS FRIENDS IN THE U.S. WHO HAVE TAKEN,
AND WILL TAKE, CONCRETE ACTIONS IN SUPPORT OF
TURKEY. THE SENATOR COUPLED THESE REASSURANCES WITH
STATEMENTS THAT TURKEY'S FRIENDS ARE NOW LOOKING FOR
POSITIVE SIGNALS FROM TURKEY, AND HE CALLED
SPECIFICALLY FOR TURKISH RATIFICATION OF THE MARCH
1987 DECA SIDE LETTER AND MOVEMENT BY THE GOT ON
OTHER MILITARY ISSUES IT HAS PLACED ON HOLD WHILE
DEFERRING SIDE LETTER RATIFICATION.' SEN. BOREN
REINFORCED THESE SENTIMENTS, OUTLINING SPECIFICALLY
WHAT HAD BEEN DONE LEGISLATIVELY FOR TURKEY AND
PUTTING PARTICULAR STRESS ON THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF
SENATOR BYRD.
3. ANSWERING SEN. WARNER'S QUERY, EVREN CALLED THE
INF TREATY A VERY POSITIVE DEVELOPMENT. HE NOTED THE
IMPORTANCE OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS FOR STABILITY AND SAID
IT WAS ESSENTIAL TO IMPROVE NATO (AND TURKEY'S)
CONVENTIONAL CAPABILITIES WHILE EFFORTS TO ELIMINATE
NUCLEAR WEAPONS CONTINUED. EVREN COUNSELED PRUDENCE
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4. SEN. PELL RAISED CYPRUS -- WHICH HE CALLED "THE
BIG PROBLEM MARRING" U.S.-TURKISH RELATIONS -- AND
COMBINED CONGRATULATORY WORDS ON DAVOS WITH URGINGS
THAT TURKEY FOCUS ITS ENERGIES ON THE USSR, NOT
GREECE, AND THAT U.S.-TURKISH PARTNERSHIP HAS A
BRIGHT FUTURE ONCE CYPRUS AND "THE PROBLEMS OF GREEKS
IN CONSTANTINOPLE" ARE RESOLVED. EVREN WELCOMED
DAVOS AS A VERY POSITIVE PHASE OF TURKISH-GREEK
RELATIONS. HIS RESPONSE ON CYPRUS HIGHLIGHTED THE
UNSYG'S PROPOSALS WHICH TURKEY HAD TWICE ACCEPTED,
AND HE EXPRESSED THE HOPE THE COMING GREEK-CYPRIOT
ELECTION WOULD PRODUCE A WISE LEADER WHO WOULD RETURN
TO THE UN TABLE. EVREN ALSO DEFENDED TURKISH
MILITARY ACTION IN CYPRUS, FOR IT SAVED LIVES. END
SUMMARY.
5. PRESIDENT EVREN MET WITH SENATORS BYRD, PELL,
BOREN AND WARNER, ACCOMPANIED BY THE AMBASSADOR AND
DCM (NOTETAKER), FEBRUARY 11 FROM 5:30 TO SHORTLY
AFTER 7 P.M. WITH EVREN ON THE TURKISH SIDE WERE MFA
UNDER SECRETARY FOR BILATERAL POLITICAL AFFAIRS
NURVER NURES, PRESIDENTIAL ASSISTANT ALI TAYGUN
(INTERPRETER), AND A NOTETAKER FROM THE PRESIDENTIAL
STAFF.
THE PRESIDENT BEGAN THE MEETING-WITH A WELCOMING
DISCOURSE IN WHICH HE STRESSED THE IMPORTANCE OF
VISITS BETWEEN THE U.S. AND TURKEY, PARTICULARLY
THOSE INVOLVING MEMBERS OF THE U.S. CONGRESS. MANY
AMERICAN CITIZENS, HE THOUGHT, DO NOT EVEN KNOW
TURKEY'S LOCATION ON THE MAP: AND THOSE WHO DO OFTEN
THINK OF TURKEY ONLY IN THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT OF
OTTOMAN INVADERS AT THE GATES OF VIENNA OR CONQUERING
THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA.
7. FOR SOME REASON, EVREN OPINED, WESTERNERS ACCEPT
OTHER EMPIRES, SUCH AS THOSE OF THE GREEKS AND
ROMANS, OR THE BRITISH, WHILE LOOKING ON THE OTTOMANS
AS BARBARIANS. HOWEVER, WHEN PEOPLE COME TO TURKEY,
EVREN CONTINUED. THEY FIND A HOSPITABLE PEOPLE WITH A
HUMAN APPROACH TO PROBLEMS.
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8. EVREN MADE CLEAR THAT HE BLAMED TURKEY'S PAST
LACK OF INTEREST IN PROMOTING ITSELF FOR-THE IMAGE HE
FELT IT HAS IN THE U.S. NOTING HIS FATHER'S
TEACHINGS TO HIM, HE SAID IT WAS A TURKISH TRADITION
NOT TO'BOAST BUT TO WAIT FOR OTHERS TO ADMIRE ONE'S
QUALITIES. NOW, HE SAID, THE TURKS KNOW THEY NEED TO
DO BETTER IN PROMOTING THEMSELVES ABROAD.
9. THIS. IS ONE REASON, HE SAID LATER, WHY HE HAS
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BEEN INTERESTED IN VISITING THE UNITED STATES, WHERE
HE WOULD BE ABLE TO REACH AMERICAN AUDIENCES THROUGH
TELEVISION AND THE PRESS, AND THROUGH VARIOUS GROUPS
TO WHOM HE COULD RELATE THE SACRIFICES TURKEY IS
MAKING FOR U.S. AND ALLIED SECURITY. (OF COURSE, HE
ADDED IN AN ASIDE, IT WOULD REMAIN TO BE SEEN HOW
MUCH COVERAGE HE WOULD GET IF HE DID SO, BECAUSE "FOR
THE U.S. IT IS NOT 'DOG BITES MAN' BUT VICE VERSA
THAT GETS THE HEADLINES.")
10. MAJORITY LEADER'S OPENING REMARKS: THE
IMPORTANCE OF TURKEY; NATO; AND THE NEW SOVIET
LEADERSHIP.
SENATOR BYRD RESPONDED BY INDICATING HOW MUCH HE
SHARED THE PRESIDENT'S DESIRE TO SEE MORE VISITS TO
TURKEY. HE SPOKE OF THE PROFOUND IMPRESSION HIS
FIRST VISIT TO TURKEY IN 1955 AS MEMBER OF A 7-MAN
HFAC DELEGATION, INCLUDING DR. WALTER JUDD, FORMER
MEDICAL MISSIONARY IN CHINA. THAT VISIT HAD LEFT A
LASTING IMPRESSION, THE MAJORITY LEADER SAID, WHICH
KEPT BRINGING HIM BACK AND WANTING OTHER AMERICAN
REPRESENTATIVES AND SENATORS TO VISIT TOO. AS SHEBA
HAD FOUND WHEN SHE VISITED SOLOMON, HE ADDED, "THE
HALF HAS NEVER YET BEEN TOLD."
11. SPEAKING FOR HIS CURRENT CODEL, BYRD SAID IT HAD
ONLY A ONE-WEEK TRIP TO MAKE; AND THE DECISION TO
INCLUDE ANKARA ALONG WITH LONDON, PARIS, BONN AND
ROME SHOWED HOW IMPORTANT TURKEY LOOMED IN THE EYES
OF THIS TOP-LEVEL GROUP.. MOSTLY, HE SAID, THE CODEL
WAS INTERESTED IN DISCUSSING THE INF TREATY AND THE
SITUATION CREATED BY THE NEW SOVIET LEADERSHIP. IN
THE USSR, HE ADDED, THE OLD IS BEING SWEPT AWAY. THE
KEY QUESTION IS WHETHER THERE IS NEW WINE, OR ONLY A
NEW BOTTLE.
12. THE CODEL ALSO WANTED TO SHOW EUROPEANS THAT
SENATORS OF BOTH PARTIES ARE UNDEVIATING SUPPORTERS
OF NATO, SUPPORT FOR WHICH IS SO INGRAINED IN THE
U.S. THAT IT CANNOT BE CHANGED OR QUESTIONED,
REGARDLESS OF WHICH PARTY IS IN POWER. OF COURSE, HE
ADDED, THE U.S. WELCOMES THE POSSIBILITY OF CHANGE
WHICH MR. GORBACHEV OFFERS; BUT WE ARE WATCHING
THINGS CAUTIOUSLY, CONSTANT IN OUR SUPPORT OF THE
ALLIANCE.
13. SUMMING UP HIS OPENING REMARKS, THE MAJORITY
LEADER REITERATED HIS LONG-STANDING AND UNWAIVERING
SUPPORT FOR TURKEY. HE EXPRESSED HIS ADMIRATION FOR
TURKISH LEADERSHIP, IN ITS EXPANSION OF TRADE AND
GNP, IN THE VISION SHOWN AT DAVOS, AND IN ITS
APPROACH TO ITS NEIGHBORS IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND THE
SOUTHWEST ASIA REGION.
14. CHAIRMAN PELL: DAVOS; CYPRUS; AND THE SOUTHERN
FLANK.
AFTER OPENING WITH COMPLIMENTS ON THE SULEYMAN
EXHIBITION, WHICH IMPRESSED MANY AMERICANS, AND THE
VALOR OF TURKISH SOLDIERS IN KOREA, PARTICULARLY AS
PRISONERS WHERE THEY KEPT THEIR DISCIPLINE WHILE
OTHERS "CRUMBLED," SENATOR PELL ACKNOWLEDGED TURKEY'S
IMPORTANT RESPONSIBILITIES ON THE SOUTHERN FLANK.
"WE WANT TO SEE THE TIME COME WHEN YOU CAN DEVOTE ALL
YOUR ENERGIES," HE SAID, "TO THE SOVIET UNION AND NOT
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TO GREECE." IN THIS CONTEXT HE CONGRATULATED EVREN
ON DAVOS AND EXPRESSED HOPE IT WOULD LEAD TO PROGRESS
IN "THE BIG PROBLEM MARRING OUR RELATIONS, THE
OCCUPATION OF CYPRUS BY TURKISH TROOPS USING AMERICAN
WEAPONS." WHEN THAT IS RESOLVED, HE SAID, AND WHEN
THE PROBLEMS OF GREEKS IN CONSTANTINOPLE ARE
RESOLVED, I SEE A BRIGHT FUTURE PARTNERSHIP." IN THE
MEANTIME, THE CHAIRMAN SAID, THE U.S. WOULD WANT TO
DO ALL IT COULD TO HELP IN THE EFFORT TO FIND
SOLUTIONS TO GREEK-TURKISH PROBLEMS.
15. CHAIRMAN BOREN: INTELLIGENCE COOPERATION; DECA
SIDE LETTER.
UNDERLINING WHAT SENATOR BYRD HAD SAID ABOUT FIRST
IMPRESSIONS--SAYING HE HAD BEEN SO IMPRESSED BY
FORMER AMBASSADOR PARKER HART'S TALES OF TURKEY THAT
HE WENT TO ISTANBUL AT AN EARLY AGE--SENATOR BOREN
SAID HE NOW SEES TURKEY FROM HIS SENATE COMMITTEE'S
PERSPECTIVE. HE EXPRESSED IN SOME DETAIL HIS
APPRECIATION FOR THE EXCELLENT COOPERATION BETWEEN
THE U.S. AND TURKEY AND CONCLUDED BY EXPRESSING
ADMIRATION FOR EVREN'S CONTRIBUTIONS TO TURKEY'S
CURRENT STABLE COURSE AND FOR HIS "VISION AND WISDOM"
IN RESTORING DEMOCRACY AFTER LEADING THE 1980
MILITARY INTERVENTION.
16. SAYING HE MIGHT BE ABOUT TO EMBARRASS THE,
MAJORITY LEADER, BOREN SPOKE OF SENATOR BYRD'S
IMPORTANT EFFORTS IN CONGRESS ON TURKEY'S BEHALF.
MILITARY AID TO TURKEY HAD NOT BEEN CUT, HE NOTED,
DESPITE A VERY TOUGH BUDGETARY ENVIRONMENT, AND WORK
WAS BEING DONE TO GAIN A GOOD RESULT ON THE FMS
REFINANCING FRONT. THESE EFFORTS WERE IMPARTING AN
UPWARD MOMENTUM TO CONGRESSIONAL WORK IN SUPPORT OF
TURKEY. THEY WERE A GOOD SIGN, HE SAID, WHICH CALLED
FOR GOOD SIGNS IN THE OTHER DIRECTION. HE THEREFORE
EXPRESSED HOPE THAT TURKEY WOULD RATIFY THE MARCH
1987 DECA SIDE LETTER AND THAT EVREN WOULD VISIT THE
U.S.
17. SENATOR WARNER: GREETING FROM PRESIDENT REAGAN.
INTRODUCED BY THE MAJORITY LEADER AS THE
REPRESENTATIVE OF THE MAJORITY PARTY IN THE WHITE
HOUSE.AND_A FORMER SECNAV. SENATOR WARNER BROUGHT
GREETINGS TO PRESIDENT EVREN FROM PRESIDENT REAGAN.
NOTING HIS PAST EXPERIENCE HELPING TO BUILD UP THE
TURKISH NAVY IN THE EARLY 1970S, THE SENATOR PRAISED
NOT ONLY TURKEY'S CONTRIBUTIONS TO NATO BUT ALSO THE
CLOSE WORKING RELATIONS BETWEEN U.S. AND TURKISH
DEFENSE PERSONNEL. HE EXPRESSED AGREEMENT WITH
SENATOR BYRD THAT THE INF TREATY WOULD BE RATIFIED
AND ASKED EVREN'S ASSESSMENT OF THE IMPACT OF THAT ON
NATO, AND OF A START AGREEMENT SHOULD ONE BE REACHED
IN THE NEAR FUTURE.
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18. EVREN'S RESPONSE: DAVOS; INF; GORBACHEV;
CYPRUS; ECONOMIC PROBLEMS AND GRIEVANCES.
AFTER THANKING THE SENATORS, THE PRESIDENT NOTED
BRIEFLY THAT USUALLY SUCH DELEGATIONS FEEL OBLIGED TO
ADD AN ATHENS VISIT TO THE ITINERARY, OR THE GREEKS
FEEL OFFENDED. HOWEVER, HE ADDED, SINCE
GREEK-TURKISH RELATIONS HAD NOW ENTERED A VERY
POSITIVE PHASE THERE SHOULD BE NO REASON FOR ATHENS
TO TAKE OFFENSE. HE THEN TURNED TO INF, TERMING IT A
VERY POSITIVE DEVELOPMENT CREATING A GLOBAL SENSE OF
CONFIDENCE.
19. NO ONE CAN DENY, EVREN SAID, THE BENEFIT OF
REMOVING A WHOLE CATEGORY OF POWERFUL NUCLEAR
WEAPONS. AT THE SAME TIME, HE EXPRESSED DOUBT AS TO
WHETHER EUROPE AND THE WORLD COULD HAVE PASSED
THROUGH SUCH A PERIOD OF PEACE AND STABILITY WITHOUT
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NUCLEAR WEAPONS. WHILE TRYING TO ELIMINATE THEM, HE
SAID, IT WAS ESSENTIAL TO IMPROVE NATO'S STRENGTH IN
THE CONVENTIONAL FIELD. OTHERWISE THERE WOULD BE A
MAJOR IMBALANCE IN FAVOR OF THE USSR. THUS, EVREN
CONCLUDED, TURKEY WELCOMES THE INF AGREEMENT BUT
FEELS THERE SHOULD BE A MAJOR EFFORT DURING THE
THREE-YEAR IMPLEMENTATION PERIOD TO BRIDGE THE GAP IN
THE CONVENTIONAL FIELD.
20. ON GORBACHEV, EVREN SAID IT APPEARED THE SOVIET
LEADER MIGHT BE SINCERE, THOUGH IT WOULD TAKE SOME
TIME TO SEE IF THIS IS "NEW WINE." GORBACHEV SEEMS
TO WANT TO SPEND LESS ON WEAPONS AND MORE ON MEASURES
TO RAISE THE STANDARD OF LIVING OF THE SOVIET PEOPLE,
HE SAID, AND ONE HOPES HE DOES NOT HAVE "ULTERIOR"
ARMS CONTROL MOTIVES. HE IS CLEVER AND ABLE, AND
SHOWED THAT BY EMBRACING ZERO OPTION AS SOON AS HE
LAID HIS GRIP ON POWER. THE WEST SHOULD BE PRUDENT
IN ASSESSING HIM. EVREN ADDED, NOT FORGETTING
CHAMBERLAIN'S RETURN FROM MUNICH PROCLAIMING PEACE.
21. ON CYPRUS,.EVREN SAID DAVOS SHOULD HELP. BUT
SENATOR PELL SHOULD KNOW THE TURKISH SIDE HAD
ACCEPTED TWICE, WITH SOME SACRIFICES, THE UNSYG'S
SETTLEMENT PROPOSALS. NOTHING COULD HAPPEN UNTIL
AFTER THE GREEK-CYPRIOT ELECTIONS, HE SAID, BUT
TURKEY HOPES A PRESIDENT WITH WISDOM AND VISION WILL
COME TO POWER SO BOTH SIDES CAN RETURN TO THE UNSYG'S
TABLE TO TAKE UP HIS PROPOSALS. HE DID NOT MAKE
CLEAR WHETHER THESE WOULD BE OLD OR NEW PROPOSALS.
22. EVREN DISAGREED WITH SENATOR PELL ON HIS POINT
THAT CYPRUS WAS OCCUPIED BY TURKISH TROOPS WITH U.S.
ARMS. TO ACCEPT THAT, HE SAID, WOULD BE TO AGREE
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THAT TURKEY COULD NOT USE ITS FORCES ANYWHERE EXCEPT
WITHIN THE NATO AREA. FRANCE, HE NOTED, FOUGHT IN
ALGERIA WHEN IT WAS FULLY PARTICIPATING, MILITARILY,
IN THE ALLIANCE, AT THE COST OF 1.5 MILLION LIVES.
BY CONTRAST, HE SAID, TURKEY'S INTERVENTION IN CYPRUS
HAD BEEN TO SAVE THE LIVES OF TURKISH CYPRIOTS, WHICH
WERE IN PERIL.
23. TURNING TO SENATOR BOREN'S REMARKS, EVREN
THANKED HIM. COMMUNISTS WITHIN TURKEY AND ABROAD HAD
ATTACKED HIM FOR INTERVENING IN 1980, HE SAID, BUT
THIS WAS ONLY NATURAL. THERE WERE COMMUNISTS,
FASCISTS AND FUNDAMENTALISTS IN ALL COUNTRIES. WHAT
IS IMPORTANT. EVREN SAID, IS THAT THEY BE IN THE
MINORITY; AND THIS HAD BEEN TRUE IN TURKEY'S MOST
RECENT ELECTION.
24. SOME IN EUROPE CRITICIZE TURKEY FOR OUTLAWING
THE COMMUNIST PARTY, HE SAID, BUT THERE ARE EUROPEANS
WHO OUTLAW FASCIST PARTIES. "WE OUTLAW BOTH FASCISTS
AND COMMUNISTS," HE ADDED. WHILE THE DAY MIGHT COME
WHEN THIS MIGHT CHANGE, HE CONTINUED, HE DID NOT
THINK NOW IS THE TIME.
25. EVREN THEN GAVE A LONG DISCOURSE ON U.S.-TURKISH
RELATIONS, STRESSING TURKISH FIDELITY AS A COUNTRY
WHICH HAS ALWAYS HONORED ITS AGREEMENTS. NOTING THE
THREAT TO TURKEY FROM MULTIPLE DIRECTIONS, HE SPOKE
OF THE ECONOMIC BURDEN HIS NATION CARRIES, WHICH
EXPLAINS ITS CONSTANT NEED FOR AID DESPITE HIS REGRET
AS PRESIDENT THAT TURKEY MUST SEEK SUCH ASSISTANCE.
MUSING THAT TURKEY MIGHT BE ABLE TO REDUCE ITS BURDEN
BY DISBANDING SOME UNITS. EVREN WONDERED IF THAT
WOULD BE SATISFACTORY.
26. INSTEAD, HE SAID, TURKEY NEEDS TRADE TO HELP
WITH ITS GROWING DEBT. LOOKING AT ITS SHARE OF THE
U.S. TEXTILE IMPORT MARKET, HE SAID TURKEY HAD ONLY
1.5 PERCENT WHILE HONG KONG, TAIWAN AND KOREA HAD 30
PERCENT. CONSIDERING THAT TURKEY IS AN ALLY, HE
SAID, AND PUTTING ASIDE KOREA, TURKEY SHOULD BE GIVEN
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A BETTER CHANCE TO COMPETE--IN STEEL AS WELL.
27. ON THE FMS DEBT SIDE. EVREN SAID HE HAD TO ADMIT
'TURKEY HAD NOT REALIZED WHAT IT WAS GETTING INTO IN
THE EARLY 19805, WHEN IT WAS BORROWING AT 12-14
PERCENT. NOW TURKEY IS PAYING BACK MORE OR LESS WHAT
IT RECEIVES EACH YEAR IN NEW CREDITS. AID, HE SAID,
SHOULD BE GOING UP. EACH YEAR; INSTEAD IT IS GOING
DOWN.
.28. HAVING "SUMMARIZED THE ECONOMIC AND COMMERCIAL
SIDE," EVREN SAID ARMENIAN RESOLUTIONS AND OTHER
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CONGRESSIONAL ACTIONS HAD GREATLY DISTURBED TURKISH
PUBLIC OPINION, "PLACING BUTTER ON THE BREAD OF
COMMUNISTS WHO WANT TO DRIVE A WEDGE BETWEEN US." HE
ALSO COMPLAINED ABOUT PORTIONS OF THE LATEST
DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT DEALING WITH THE
KURDISH QUESTION.
29. IN RESPONSE TO THE AMBASSADOR'S IMMEDIATE REPLY
THAT NOT A WORD OF THE RECENT REPORT CAN BE READ AS
SUPPORTING OR CONDONING KURDISH SEPARATISM, EVREN
INSISTED IT WAS STILL SEEN THAT WAY BY TURKISH PUBLIC
OPINION. GOING ON IN A MILD AND FRIENDLY, BUT NO
LESS SERIOUS VEIN, THE PRESIDENT SAID TURKEY HAD
BECOME A MEMBER OF NATO TO PROTECT ITS SECURITY BUT
COULD NOT HELP BUT ASK ITSELF WHAT KIND OF AN
ALLIANCE TOLERATES AND CONDONES THOSE WHO SEEK TO
DIVIDE TURKEY. IF THIS KEEPS UP HE SAID (MILDLY,
AGAIN, BUT NO LESS CLEARLY), THERE MIGHT COME A DAY
WHEN THE TURKISH PEOPLE WOULD HAVE TO RE-EXAMINE THIS
RELATIONSHIP.
30. EVREN THEREFORE ASKED FOR CONGRESSIONACHELP ON
THE FOREGOING FRONTS. HE HAD WANTED TO VISIT THE
U.S. LAST YEAR, HE SAID, AND HE BLAMED POSTPONEMENT
ON LAST YEAR'S REFERENDUM, ELECTIONS AND "THE
WINTER." NOW HE WOULD BE INTERESTED, AND HOPED THE
SENATORS WOULD CONVEY THIS. HE ADDED, HOWEVER, THAT
IT WOULD BE VERY HARD IF THERE WERE TO BE AN ARMENIAN
RESOLUTION BEFORE, DURING OR AFTER SUCH A TRIP. THE
AMBASSADOR, HEARTILY SECONDED BY SENATOR BOREN, SAID
HE SAW LITTLE PROSPECT OF THE RESOLUTION'S
RESUSCITATION AND/OR PASSAGE. EVREN AGREED.
IN A FINAL PERORATION, SENATOR BYRD TOOK ON EVREN'S
REMARKS DIRECTLY, SAYING HE COULD UNDERSTAND THE
FEELINGS BEHIND THE PRESIDENT'S RHETORICAL
QUESTIONING OF JUST WHAT KIND OF ALLIANCE IT IS THAT
DOES NOT UNDERSTAND THE SACRIFICES BEING MADE BY THE
TURKISH NATION. HE EXPRESSED HOPE, HOWEVER, THAT
EVREN AND THE TURKISH PEOPLE WOULD NOT LOSE HEART.
32. THE MAJORITY LEADER SPOKE OF THE VERY SERIOUS
BUDGET PROBLEMS NOW BEING EXPERIENCED IN WASHINGTON.
WERE IT NOT FOR THAT SITUATION, HE SAID, THE AID
PICTURE WOULD BE CONSIDERABLY DIFFERENT; BUT EVEN IN
THE FACE OF THAT SITUATION, HE ADDED, TURKEY HAD DONE
PRETTY WELL. AS FOR TURKEY'S SACRIFICES FOR THE
ALLIANCE, THE SENATOR SAID, AMERICANS SHOULD KNOW
MORE ABOUT THEM, AND HE TICKED OFF SOME OF THEM:
--TURKEY'S LONG WARSAW PACT BORDER AND THE THREATS IT
FACES FROM THE EAST.
--ITS DEMOCRATIC TRADITIONS--WHERE ELSE HAS THE
MILITARY TAKEN OVER THREE TIMES AND RETURNED CONTROL
EACH TIME TO CIVILIAN LEADERS?
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RECEIPT FOR C. RICHARD D'AMATO
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ALSO PASS INFO SECDEF WASHDC, JCS WASHDC, USNMR SHAPE
BE, USCINCEUR VAIHINGEN GE, AND USDOCOSOUTH NAPLES IT
E.O. 12356: DECL: OADR
TAGS: OREP (BYRD, ROBERT), PREL, TU, US
SUBJECT: CODEL BYRD MEETING WITH PRESIDENT EVREN
--OUR TRADE SURPLUS WITH TURKEY--WITH HOW MANY OTHER
COUNTRIES DO WE HAVE ONE?
SO. SENATOR BYRD SAID, WE HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY TO
SEE THAT TURKEY'S CONTRIBUTIONS ARE KNOWN. AND TO GET
ACROSS THE IDEA THAT WHEN THE WATER LIFTS FOR THE
TURKISH BOAT IT LIFTS US ALL AS WELL.
33. TURNING TO ARMENIAN RESOLUTIONS, THE SENATOR
DECLARED WITH ELOQUENCE THAT AS LONG AS HE IS
MAJORITY LEADER NO ARMENIAN RESOLUTION WILL BE CALLED
UP IN THE U.S. SENATE; AND HE ADDED THAT SO LONG AS
HE IS IN ANY POSITION HE WILL STEP IN TO KILL ANY
FUTURE RESOLUTION.
34. FINALLY, THE SENATOR SAID, IT BEHOOVES BOTH THE
UNITED STATES AND TURKEY TO WORK TOGETHER AND FOR
BOTH COUNTRIES TO DO THEIR BEST. TURKEY COULD
GREATLY HELP, HE SAID, BY RATIFYING THE DECA SIDE
IF TURKEY COULD DO THESE THINGS,
THE SENATOR SAID, HE.000LD GO TO PEOPLE IN WASHINGTON
AND SAY, "I TOLD YOU." THUS, THE MAJORITY LEADER
CONCLUDED, HIS MESSAGE WAS, "DON'T DESPAIR. CAST THY
BREAD UPON THE WATERS AND IT WILL RETURN TO YOU AGAIN
AFTER MANY DAYS."
REINFORCING THIS, SENATOR BOREN SUMMED UP
CONGRESSIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS FOR TURKEY:
--THE ARMENIAN RESOLUTION HAD BEEN DEFEATED;
--MILITARY AID HAD NOT BEEN CUT;
--"7-10" HAD NOT BEEN WRITTEN INTO LAW; AND
--CONGRESS HAD PASSED NEW LEGISLATION ON FMS CREDITS.
NOW, HE HOPED, TURKEY WOULD GIVE ITS FRIENDS IN
CONGRESS, IN BOTH PARTIES, THE RIGHT GESTURES TO KEEP
THE MOMENTUM GOING.
36. THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN CLEARED BY CODEL.
STRAUSZ-HUPE
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