ABSTRACT
Diversity and adaption are thus the major trends of the day and possibly for the indefinite future. They inevitably make for uncertainty as far as political-military commitments are concerned. Domestic disorders will be likely where institutions are weak; that is, mutatis mutandis, a problem common to almost ail Mediterranean countries. The Communist "conversion to the alliance" remains therefore highly conditional. Events on the southern flank—and the alliance's reaction to them—therefore have to be seen in a wider geographical context. Turkey's economic and social problems are sharpened by an unchecked population growth of 3 percent and an unprecedented shift of population from rural areas into towns that have growing slums and social discontent. Negotiations with the United States on major military and exchange agreements have been suspended because of differing Greek, Turkish, and US views on the terms under which Greece could return to the alliance.
