Mr. Ecevit himself, after some quarrel in the past, has made his peace with the generals and therefore will be backed by them. Unfortunately he could soon be in need of this support in order to keep his new coalition partners of the National Action Party at distance. Europeans would say that a working democracy on the threshold of the third millennium should be quite different. But they forget that the Islamic world is only writing the year 1377.
Turkey's prime minister Bulent Ecevit
Source: The Economist
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