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...Turkish election campaign was conducted in the shadow of the gallows. Hardly any of the candidates mentioned it, but everyone recalled the execution of ex-Premier Adnan Menderes and two members of his government by General Gursel's military junta. Despite occasional arrests in the campaign weeks, the voting itself was calm and clean. Result: a sharp rebuff to the junta and the 17-month-old revolution...
Republican Peoples, led by ex-President Ismet Inonu, favored by Strongman Cemal Gursel: Justice, New Turkey, Republican Peasant, all trying to win followers of executed Premier Adnan Menderes...
Turkey seemed calm but uneasy. Since the execution of ex-Premier Adnan Menderes, ex-Finance Minister Hasan Polatkan, and ex-Foreign Minister Fatin Rustu Zorlu, for "crimes against the Turkish constitution" (TIME, Sept. 22), the big question was whether Strongman Cemal Gursel would allow free elections to take place, as promised, next month. Cryptically last week, he warned of "provocative elements" that might prevent the election. Obviously disturbed by the executions, the entire Cabinet reportedly offered its resignation, then agreed to stay on at Gursel's insistence...
...eleven months, when Turks referred to "The Island," it was understood that they meant Yassiada island, off Istanbul, where former Premier Adnan Menderes, ex-President Celal Bayar and 588 lesser functionaries were on trial, some of them for their lives. Last week the long proceedings on The Island were over, and the end was grim...
More than 10 million Turks streamed to the polls last week to vote on a new constitution, the first the country has had since the regime of Premier Adnan Menderes was overthrown nearly 14 months...