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INFO EUR l51USIE 001CIAE 001DODE 001GPM 041H 021INR 071L 03,NsC 101 
P 0~1RSC 011SP 021SS 251NSA 021SA 011SAH 021SAL 011ACDA t61IO 131 
R 221025Z AUG 68 FM AMEMBASSY ANKARA TO SECSTATE WASHDC 178 
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SUBJECTiTURKS PRESS COVERAGE CZECHOSLOVAKIA 
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l• TURK PRESS BANNER HEADLINES CZECHOSLOVAKIA UNDER SOVIET OCCUPATION WITH PHOTOS1 MAPS1 AND STORIES UNIVERSALLY CRITICAL. DETAILEDCOVERAGE OF EVENTS GIVEN, I,E• CHRONOLOGY, NATO MINISTERS MEETING1 USNSC MEETING CALLED1 OCCUPATION PRAGUE RADIO• TURK RADIO REPORTS UNSC MEETING WHICH TOOK PLACE TOO LATE FOR INCLUSION IN PRESS• PARALLEL WITH 1956 SOVIET CRUSHING OF HUNGARY FREQUENTLY MADE• 
2o TURKISH LEADERS ALL POLITICAL PERSUASIONS CONDEMN ACTION IN STRONG TERMS· TLPPRESGEN AYBAR STATED "SOVIET UNION IS BEHAVING LIKE ANY OTHER GREAT POWER• SOVIET CLAIMS THAT ' IMPERIALIST POWERS ARE PREPARING COUNTERQREVOLUT!ON IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA ARE FAR FRM CONVINCING1 ESPECIALLY NOW 
WHEN CZECH ~EOPLE ARE FIRMLY BEHIND THEIR LEADERS. WE FEAR 
SOVIET INTERVENTION WILL LEAD TO UNCONSTRUCTIVE DEVELOPMENTS OF' WHICH AMERICAN IMPERIALISM WILL i TAKEADVANTAGEQ" NUMBER OF STUDENT AND LABOR ORGANIZATIONS ISSUED DECLARATIONS CONDEMNING 
SOVIET AC~ION AND THE STUDENT LEADERS PLACED WHITE WREATH IN FRONT CZECH EMBASSY AND BLACK WREATH IN FGNT OF SOVIET EMBASSY. FONMIN CAGLAYANGIL CUT SHORT HOLIDAY AND , RETURNED 
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TO ANKARA EVENING AUG 21 BUT SAID TOO EARLY TO COMMENTo MlNFINANCE BILGEHAN, WHEN ASKED WHETHER US COULD DO SVILAR THING TO RURKEY1 STRONGLY DENIED POSSIBILITY DECLARtND "AMERICANS ARE PHASlNG · OUT THEIR DEPARTURE F'ROM TURKEY BY HANDING OVER THEIR INSTALLATIONS ONE BY ONE~" 
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3o CONDEMNATION OF SOVIET ACTION THEME EDITORIAL COMMENT ALL PAPERS WITH EMPHASIS · THAT SOVIETS NOT "INVITED"• INDEPENDENT YENI GAZETE -HAS BEHAVED EXACTLY SAME WAY IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA1 ABDIIPEKCI IN Mi~LlYET SHARES THIS VIEW ANO NOTES SOVIET MOVE "HAS SAVED US FROM ITS DIFFJCULT POSITI~N IN VIETNAM"• LEFTIST SELCUK IN CUMHURIYET · TERMS ACT DESPICABLE AGRE SS I 0 N AND BEL I EVES I T W I LL "ENC 0 UR AGE '' AMER I CAN AG GRESS I 0 N IN VIETNAM• PRO~JP ADALET BELIEVES · NOVOTNY WILL ESTABLISH SOVIET PUPPET REGIME IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA, CALLS ON FREE WORLD TO ACT WITH WARNINGTHAT 0 STANDING BY AND WATCHING YOUR NEIGHBOR•S DISASTER IS BEGINNING OF YOUR OWN", 
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