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...start. It was bad enough to begin with the trivial charge that ousted President Celal Bayar -onetime companion in arms to the late great Kemal Ataturk-had gypped the government in the sale of a shaggy dog. Last week the prosecution seemed intent on proving only that ex-Premier Adnan Menderes, married and the father of three sons, was indiscreetly fond of girls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: A Time of Trial | 11/14/1960 | See Source »

...months the Turkish army regime has labored like so many busy Hollywood stagehands. They were preparing a vast public trial of the civilians they ousted from power, President Celal Bayar and Premier Adnan Menderes. Last week, on the fortress island of Yassiada in the Sea of Marmara, in a converted basketball court where Turkish recruits once sweated and exercised, the show began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: The Shaggy-Dog Case | 10/24/1960 | See Source »

Scheduled to follow Bayar was former Premier Adnan Menderes, a hollow-eyed, sunken-cheeked wreck of his once plump and sleek self. In a barely audible voice, he earlier told the court he had been kept in solitary confinement for more than four months, had been allowed only 27 minutes with a defense lawyer two days before the trial. Complained Menderes: "My nerves are shattered." The main charge against him was "activities contrary to the constitution." But the first specific was that he had fathered a child by a Turkish opera singer, and then had given orders to kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: The Shaggy-Dog Case | 10/24/1960 | See Source »

...U.A.R. jet who swooped helplessly down to an emergency bellylanding near Amman after reconnoitering along Jordan's frontier. But the Syrian lad who climbed out of the cockpit seemed too young to be shot, too honest and helpful even to punish severely. Instead, the Jordanians decided that Lieut. Adnan Madani, 24, would make a useful propaganda weapon to embarrass Gamal Abdel Nasser. By trotting Madani out as a "defector," Jordan could "prove" that Syrians were unhappy in Nasser's U.A.R...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Man's Job | 10/24/1960 | See Source »

...Turkey's former Vice Premier and Foreign Minister, Mehmet Fuat Koprulu, 69, a respected professor and one of the founding members of the Democratic Party. Koprulu's part had been apparently minor. The chief culprits, said the Turkish government, were already in custody-President Celal Bayar, Premier Adnan Menderes, and ex-Foreign Minister Fatin Zorlu. This is the story as told by a : spokesman for Turkey's new military junta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: The Phony Incident | 10/17/1960 | See Source »

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