NEAR EAST/AFRICA DIVISION INTELLIGENCE SUMMARY FOR WEEK ENDING 30 NOVEMBER 1949

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• Publication Date: November 30, 1949
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EAR EAST/AFRICA DIVISION
11 T"ELLIGENCE SUMMARY Vol. Iii No. 47
-)r Week Ending
10 November 1949
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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The right to strike .................................. I
Opposition says walkouts should be legalized
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Iraqi Jewish problem ..................................2
Government threatens expulsion of Iraqis
Noted in Brief
Turkey, Iraq, Italian Colonies ................... 3
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he right toto strike: The opposit :c r.-, DennocraUc Party, in the course
.Z its current drive to win the support of Turkey's small but politi-
cally significant wage-earning population, has ventured to challenge
a hitherto sacrosanct aspect of Turkish labor policy. Although strikes
have never been legal under the Turkish Republic, the Democrats
are now openly asserting that the right to strike must be recognized
if Turkey is to be a properly functioning democratic state. The govern-
5aeut--to its credit--has responded to this challenge by frankly oppos--
iug any such concession. In a recent speech delivered in Adana,
Turkey's fourth largest city, the Minister of Labor characterized the
strike as an outmoded weapon which might boomerang rather than the
magic talisman which the Democrats evidently considered it
to be. He concluded, rather hopefully, that the Turkish worker would
have no desire to risk wounding himself by using so "fabled" (i.e.
axrtiquated) a weapon.
In the exchange thus far, the Democrats have the better of it.
The Turkish voter tends to be more realistic and less susceptible to
oratory than his counterpart in ether countries, however, and his vote
will finally hinge largely on his conclusion as to which party will pro-
vide him the most tangible benefits.
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TOTED IN BRIEF
of Turkey
The charged that a ]at #ias M4 V ,Jresident In=
was being organized by prominent members of the opposition Nation
Party are apparently being hastily abandoned for lack of sufficient
evidence. Why the charges were levelled at all, under these cir-
cumstances, is still a mystery, especially since complete abandon-
ment of the case would undou btedlt discredit the government more
than its target
't'he fte -t a[ ]kft J finally pre' ailed Upon Nuri Said, who resigned
as prime minister on 7 November, to resume his old duties. Recent
attempts to set up a new cabinet can now be relaxed, although Nuri
may ruake some much-needed changes in the government's makeup
after the opening of Parliament on 1. December.
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The UN General Assembly's 21 November resolution on the Italian
u yes brought jubilation to the Tripolitanians, who were promised
a united independent Libya 1954. The decision to give Italy a 10-
jear UN trusteeship over Italian Somaliland, however, is opposed by
majority of the population there ;even though they are then to get
their independence, and the Itsli ttis will probably be confronted with
considerable unrest when they take over, The disposition of Eritrea
was postponed to next year's session of the General Assembly, when
a newly created investigating commission will submit its recommeztda.
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