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Before his fall in 1960, Premier Adnan Menderes made a practice of padlocking hostile Turkish newspapers, imprisoned journalists by the hundreds; police once threw a newsboy into jail for hawking a headline about a minister's resignation. At the time, the loudest protests came from wispy old Opposition Leader Ismet Inonu, who denounced "those who would seek to establish a coercive regime." But now that he is in power himself, Premier Inonu, 78, shows signs of falling into Menderes' old habits...
Fortnight ago, Dr. Adnan Benk, respected professor of philology at Istanbul University, and Afsar Timucin, editor of the cultural magazine Atac, were clapped into prison for another crime with words. Atac had carried Benk's translation of parts of a book that included four quotations from Karl Marx. Prior to releasing the pair last week on bail, an Istanbul judge ignored Benk's argument that the entire book can be read in the Istanbul University library...
...from a group of rebels led by Kasim Gulek, 57, a fiery Republican who has always spoken his mind no matter what the risk. An able economist who studied at Istanbul's U.S.-financed Robert College, Columbia University and the Sorbonne, Gulek shouted defiance at the late Premier Adnan Menderes when it was not at all healthy to do so, was arrested in 1956 for "insulting the National Assembly" in public speeches...
...Turkey's Kayseri State Prison a few weeks ago, inmates held an engagement party for two former Deputies who were among the 460 politicians jailed last year as supporters of executed Premier Adnan Menderes. Last week the engaged couple could look forward to a wedding ball without chains. Approved by the National Assembly was a long-delayed amnesty for all but 53 of the prisoners. Among those still behind bars: ex-President Celal Bayar, 78, serving a life sentence...
...student rioters overturned and burned cars and fought pitched battles with the police, General Ne Win could reflect that similar demonstrations had signaled trouble for other strongmen: Syngman Rhee in South Korea, Adnan Menderes in Turkey. Ne Win gave his army a free hand, and the troops opened fire, killing 16 students and wounding 42. A government spokesman explained that it had been necessary to dynamite the Student Union because "it was a haven for underground leaders, plotting the overthrow of the government," and Ne Win, in a nationwide broadcast, broadly hinted that the student leaders were Communists...