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...built by Premier Adnan Menderes and completed two years ago, just before Menderes was toppled by a military coup that led to his trial and hanging. Now the cavernous, wood-paneled Grand National Assembly building houses 450 Deputies in Byzantine comfort. Each man sits in a well-padded blue leather chair; on his desk is a row of white, green and red buttons linked to an enormous electronic vote-counting machine behind the speaker's platform. The only trouble with the gadget is that it does not work. Since opening day last fall, neither has Parliament...
Wily ex-President Ismet Inonu, 77, became Premier, while ten other members of his Republican People's Party received Cabinet posts. To the Justice Party, political heirs of the late Democratic Premier Adnan Menderes-Inonu's archrival, who was executed by the junta last September-also went eleven portfolios, including the deputy premiership, important in view of Inonu...
...Turkish elections three weeks ago, no party won a clear mandate, but the Republicans, favored by the armed forces and by General Cemal Gursel's junta, suffered a setback while the Justice Party, drawing supporters of executed Premier Adnan Menderes, showed considerable strength. In the wake of these results, as the parties maneuvered to form a new government, the country's top military brass* gathered ominously in Ankara. Out to the politicians went an invitation as crisp as a parade-ground command: form a coalition government of all major parties, with Gursel as President, or face a military...
...members are no longer active soldiers; nonetheless, for the confrontation with the military, they donned their old uniforms and strapped on side arms. The military's conditions: in addition to accepting Gursel as President, the new coalition government must guarantee to uphold changes made since the overthrow of Adnan Menderes, including the dismissal of some 7,000 officers thrown out because of alleged ties with the Menderes regime...
Gursel has yet to appoint the Premier who will head the new government. But whoever the man and whatever his stature, the job awaiting him is formidable. Adnan Menderes is dead and buried, but his ghost has not been laid; Turkey once again has an elected government, but the threat of another military regime toppling the government remains, and the country's long-deferred hope of stable democracy is still far from assured. President Gursel himself gave oblique recognition to these facts of current Turkish political life. Said he: "Our Second Republic even now is on trial...