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...recent bombings, is thought to have been the work of a Maoist guerrilla group known as Dev-genc (a Turkish acronym for "revolutionary youth movement"). Premier Süleyman Demirel has been reluctant to deal harshly with terrorists, lest he acquire the reputation for repression that brought down Premier Adnan Menderes and led to his hanging. Nevertheless, last week Demirel asked parliament to widen his government's powers to control the violence...
...fact Demirel was simply making gestures that would muffle the critics in Turkey who feel he is too friendly to the West. An ambitious politician with big plans for development and reform, Demirel took office with one stiff strike against him: he was the political heir of ex-Strongman Adnan Menderes, whom the army overthrew in 1960 and executed. As a result, the army was at first suspicious of him, and the left-of-center opposition, led by Inönü, did its noisiest best to discredit him as a lackey of the U.S. For months the opposition...
Died. Cemal Gursel, 71, president of Turkey until last March, a career army officer who in 1960 headed a military junta that toppled and eventually executed Premier Adnan Menderes, then, insisting on a new constitution and free elections in 1961, was voted President in a coalition government; after a series of strokes last February put him into a coma from which he never awoke; in Ankara...
Suleyman Demirel, 41, is a hardheaded peasant's son, a construction engineer who once worked with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, later amassed a private fortune as an Ankara contractor. He inherited the party and prestige of Turkey's slain strongman, Adnan Menderes, and adroitly harnessed the demirkirat, or iron grey horse, which was the symbol of Menderes' Democratic Party, for his own Justice Party...
...shadow of a hanged man last week lay across the arid Anatolian plateau. It was that of Adnan Menderes, who was overthrown as Turkey's Premier in 1960, tried by the state, and sentenced to death. Menderes' peasant-based Democratic Party was banned, and the triumphant Republicans of wizened old Ismet Inönü took over. But Menderes' popularity, it seems, has only ripened with time. Barely a fortnight before the nation's general elections, his unofficial successor, Suleyman Demirel, 41, stands a chance of winning the lion's share...