December 1983: Military Rule in Turkey Ends with Election of New Prime Minister

Turgut Ozal is elected prime minister in Turkey, ending three years of military rule (see September 1980). [Foreign Policy Research Institute, 9/1999; Nation, 8/23/2002] Turgut Ozal continues to strengthen the pro-US strategic alliance that was proposed during a 1979 meeting arranged by Albert Wohlstetter (see 1979).