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From: cdp@uiucdcsb.CS.UIUC.EDU
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Subject: Re: American troops in Turkey, S. Korea
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Date: Sun, 26-Jan-86 16:05:00 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan 26 16:05:00 1986
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Written cramer@kontron.UUCP 

>Turkey had an election a little while back.  While the election process
>wasn't as democratic as the U.S. or Western Europe, by comparision
>with the elections in Hungary (which you have expressed such enthusiam
>for) and the elections in Nicaragua, Turkey's election was quite democratic.

Mr Cramer, there is not "much" or "little" democracy. Either there is democracy
somewhere or there isn't. In Turkey as every informed person knows there is
still dictatorship of the most brutal form, where political prisoners and
minorities such as armenians and kurds (sp?) are tortured and sentenced to 
death every day. Don't forget that chief is still the brutal dictator 
Evren (sp?). Europe has virtually broken any relations with Turkey.