Word: adnan
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Free elections get further away in Turkey, while political problems multiply. When he first overthrew ex-Premier Adnan Menderes (TIME, June 6), General Cemal Gursel. the straightforward fighting man who runs Turkey's 50-man military junta, estimated that it would be three months at most before elections to install a new civilian government could be held. Last week, exactly three months after his coup, Gursel postponed the elections until next May 27, his first anniversary in power. Even if voting should be delayed a bit beyond that date, he added, "you may take it as definite that...
TURKEY A month after they seized power, Turkey's new military masters were still everybody's heroes. Even onetime Democrats were claiming they had been taken in by deposed Premier Adnan Menderes and hailing General Cemal Gursel's 38-member Committee of National Unity as Turkey's saviors. But abroad fears grew that Turkey's military rulers might be planning a permanent Nasser-or Kassem-type dictatorship rather than turn the country back to civilian rule...
Second Roundup. In the first hours after the almost bloodless overthrow of former Premier Adnan Menderes, the task of putting the Turkish Republic back on the democratic track seemed as straightforward as taking a hilltop. The army was solidly behind Gursel and his "National Union Committee" of generals, colonels and junior officers; the people had welcomed them with joy; their enemies were in their hands. Moderation was the order of the day. Leaders of Menderes' Democratic Party were released almost as fast as they were arrested; at the start of the week only 150 were in custody. General Gursel...
...revolution began at midnight and was over within six hours. Shortly before dawn, radios rasped: "The Turkish armed forces have taken over the administra tion of the country." Thus, in a blink of history's eye, ended the ten-year rule of highhanded, dictatorial Premier Adnan Menderes...
Throughout the third straight week of martial law in Istanbul and Ankara, demonstrations burst out almost daily against Premier Adnan Menderes' government. They were not particularly large and nobody got killed, but their persistence argued that the ruling Democrats, triumphant in three elections since 1950, were slipping in popular esteem. Even President Celal Bayar was worried enough to urge Menderes to consider seeking peace with the opposition Republicans. But the Premier was still tough. Cried Menderes, in a speech at Izmir: "These street demonstrations of children will not make me resign." This week, to get the children...