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...Turkish officials identified the conspirators as members of Dev Sol, a leftist group responsible for killing an American near the Incirlik air base, outside Adana, during the allied bombing campaign against Iraq. According to the daily Milliyet, the group was planning to assassinate Bush in Ankara with a remote-controlled bomb that was to be planted either in Ataturk's Mausoleum, which he visited, or in a parked car that would explode as the President's limousine left the mausoleum. Maps found by police suggested that explosives were also to have been placed under the lids of sewage drains...
...left. His films-slow, ruminative, defiantly indigenous-smolder with an ideologue's indignation and a poet's ironic compassion. For these heresies and others, Güney has spent half of his adult life in prison. In 1974, while filming a scene in a crowded restaurant in Adana, Güney and his wife were insulted by a right-wing judge. A gun was fired; the judge died. At Güney's hearing, men stood up to proclaim that they, not he, had killed the judge. Güney was found guilty; he remained in jail...
Well, almost. Incidents of renewed terrorism marred the junta's uneasy post-coup honeymoon. Vowing opposition to the military regime, leftist guerrillas ambushed and killed a tank captain in Adana and a senior police officer in Istanbul. A left-wing extremist was killed in Istanbul when friends tried to free him from police custody. In the meantime, the military's roundup of suspected extremists continued, with more than 2,000 under arrest by the end of the week, and the offices of some 150 labor unions were closed down. The junta also ordered citizens to remove all political...
...Turkey's 67 provinces, the left-leaning, 150,000-member national teachers union called a nationwide strike. The result: six people were killed and more than 3,500 students and teachers were detained in clashes between strikers and government forces in Istanbul, Ankara and the Mediterranean city of Adana. In Ankara, when police and troops pursued rioters into the teeming, jerry-built slums outside the city, some demonstrators opened fire on them with machine guns...
Among a people who sing folk songs of their bandits, death is likely to make a hero of Kocero. In the Turkish city of Adana, youngsters have already formed a "Kocero Admirers' Club." And despite repeated government statements that he is dead, Kocero lives still for the peasants of southeastern Turkey...