ECEVIT CALLED IRATE ON SPY-FLIGHT PLEA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000400380021-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 8, 2004
• Sequence Number: 21
• Publication Date: May 24, 1979
• Content Type: NSPR

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21. ?,?AY 1979
ON SPYFL1GHT PLEd'
ECV1T CALLED IRA
Turkey's Premier Insists Moscow
Must Consent to Plan by U.S; for Monitoring Missiles,
By NI CFIOLAS GAGE At that point Mr. Ecevit is- said to have
SpeciaitoTF New York Times 'erupted in anger, charging that Washing
ton was trying. tool_ink permission'for the'
ANI{ARA.,.Turkey, May 23 --"Prime,] ;flights with'promised economic aid-and'
'vlinist I3 l E
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t
.
Asked what' kind of'an- understanding j ! the opposition Justice Party, whose lead-,
he would like Moscow and Washington to' ! er, Suleymanr,Demirel;. has-come--:out'
en
cevit is furious at what
he feels are efforts by. Washington-taut:;
pressure on him- to accept U-2 flights over
Turkey to monitor missile- tests.. in the
Soviet Union, according to high Turkish.
officials.
Mr. Ecevit. also, remains._at odds with
the United States, the officials said, over
his insistence that_Moscow first give. its.
.consent to the: U-2; flights.. The Turkish -
Foreign Ministry disclosed recently that. i
Turkey would allow 'the reconnaissance
planes to fly over Turkish territoryonly if
the Russians did not.obj ect. `.
American diplomats ..here say'that'
some kind . of tacit consent may come
from the Russians because thay are as,
eager for the new treaty limiting, strate-
gic arms to'win Senate approval: as the
Carter Administration. But they feel that.
if Mr. Ecevit insists on formal Soviet cols-;,
sent he will not get it.
ter Hikmet Cetin.' said today .that he'
wanted one that made?,itclear td'the
Turkish public that.the` Soviet Union did -
not object: -I!-,;M
qi'
`Affects. the WholeCouiitry't r s)-r
Mr. Cetiti saitt that`evei' `if'L`te Soviet
Union gave its consent-'there-was- no
guarantee that Toslteywotd"d approve_t'
U-2 flights, ?whicfr the United "States-says'
fare needed'to coiripensate'for the loss of
electronic listening posts' in Ira.rr: The
Government. ae awholewill have to sup.
port it," he-said,- "the'Security Council;'
perhaps even' Parltarnent''This:affects-'
?" w,: _.
the whole country
American dipl6raats-Tierel6elieve,that
while the new, arms ?agreemerit between'
the Unitea: Stateg'and the-Soviet Union
does not directly'iiivolve 'Pttrl