The three longest serving prime ministers (Adnan Menderes, Türgüt Özal, and Recep Erdoğan) have all implemented at least one Eastern oriented initiative (Baghdad Pact 1955, Central Asian Initiative 1991, and "Strategic Depth" 2004) along with their domestic democratization efforts.
There seems to be a relationship between greater democratization and Eastern oriented foreign policy initiatives throughout Turkish political history.
The more Eastern-oriented faction of the Greenbacks, called the "National Greenback Party," held its convention in Chicago that June, and Chambers attended along with others from the Pomeroy faction, hoping to heal the party split.
The record shop was an offshoot of the then numerous leftwing, eastern bloc-oriented bookstores, and was managed by Bill Leader, who later founded Trailer Records.
Many factories in the country's export-oriented eastern provinces are already losing electricity from the grid during the daytime for one to three days a week.
The only real support for the West comes from western Ukraine, which has generally been far more hostile to the Russians than has been the more Russia-oriented eastern part.
Easterners were exposed to Western ideas and life-styles, and Westerners too, learned about Eastern culture and its spirituality-oriented cosmology.
Invoking that heritage, the network is making the hour from 8 and 9 Eastern time on weeknights its family-oriented hour.
Executives of the broadcasting board said they were heartened that Radio Sawa, a youth-oriented radio station that mixes Western and Eastern pop and was also supposedly doomed, had built an audience of at least 15 million throughout the Middle East.
This process occurs more intensively in the post-socialist Central and Eastern European countries, where the adoption of a market-oriented economy after the era of socialism and the implementation of EU policies were the greatest challenges of recent decades.
It made it easier for a mostly white American audience to identify with him, to keep one foot set firmly in their achievement-oriented, conquest-oriented Western culture while hesitantly planting another foot in the contemplative Eastern notions of nonviolent, peaceful acceptance of a larger harmony.
