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...Cabinet, Demirel, 41, a Western-minded economist, is Deputy Premier, and his resurgent party holds ten of 22 Cabinet posts. As the political heir of the late irresponsible but popular Strongman Adnan Menderes, the Justice Party is still distrusted by the real power in Turkey, the army. Demirel wants to show that he can regain the army's confidence and that the army-backed Inönü is not indispensable...
Since the 1960 overthrow and hanging of Strongman Adnan Menderes, Turkish politics has basically consisted of a feud between army-backed Premier Ismet Inönü and the opposition Justice Party formed by Menderes' resurgent followers. In municipal elections 15 months ago, the Justice Party won a startling 46% of the vote. Last week Menderes' ghost was on the go again...
...ADNAN SAKA...
Turkey seems to be in the grip of a perpetual crisis. After the army toppled the corrupt, free-spending regime of Premier Adnan Menderes in 1960 and executed him, the military ruled ineffectually for 18 months, then let civilians take over. Durable Ismet Ino-nu became Premier, decided to try to hold the country together amidst the lingering bitterness without curbing parliamentary democracy. Probably no one else could have done it. Inonu, 80, seemed like an embodiment of Turkey's past: born under the Sultanate, he was one of Kemal Ataturk's most dashing revolutionary generals, first became...
Bayar himself was doing nothing to calm things; he publicly attacked the court at Yassiada that sentenced him to prison 18 months ago; tearfully, he embraced the son of the late Premier Adnan Menderes, Bayar's colleague who was sent to the gallows by the Yassiada tribunal...