Foreign Minister Quits in Turkish Policy Rift
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<i> Reuters</i>
ANKARA, Turkey — Foreign Minister Ali Bozer resigned Friday in an apparent rift over his virtual exclusion by President Turgut Ozal from Turkey’s policy-making in the Persian Gulf crisis.
Bozer told a news conference that he handed his resignation to Prime Minister Yildirim Akbulut two weeks ago after returning with Ozal from a visit to Washington and New York.
Bozer, a 65-year-old law professor who became foreign minister in February, was known to have been dismayed when he was excluded from Ozal’s White House meeting.
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