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...Istanbul, Turkey's President and Premier were standing at the airport. The honor guard was drawn up, the bands ready to play-but the Iraqi guests never arrived. In alarm, Turkish President Celal Bayar and Premier Adnan Menderes took off for their capital at Ankara to consider their next move. Another pact partner, Iran, closed its border and alerted its army. But these were but feeble protective responses. Without Iraq the Baghdad Pact would be meaningless...
...Turkish gossip columns printed a curt and sober announcement last week: "Because of an agreement with the Turkish Newspaper Owners' Syndicate, we are discontinuing our society columns." Though the ban was made to seem a do-it-yourself affair, it was actually inspired by none other than Premier Adnan Menderes himself. The columnists, it seemed, had been giving too much gaudy publicity to The marriage of a former Miss Turkey to the mayor of Izmir, who also happens to be a cousin of the Premier's wife. Among other morsels, the columns reported that the Izmir city council...
Such items, in a country where editors can be jailed for criticizing the government or its members, offer one of the few opportunities left to Turkey's editors to get in some sly jabs at Menderes and his governing Democrats. But Adnan Menderes seems to feel that even a little is too much, and that he can never have too many clubs to beat the press with. Last November he invoked the well-worn dictator's device of taking over control of all newsprint. Newspapers were forbidden to import any newsprint of their own, thus leaving them...
...Premier Adnan Menderes seems to believe that the simplest way to end domestic criticism of his government is to pass a law against it. After his re-election last fall, Menderes rammed through another in a series of restrictive laws making it a criminal offense for a newspaper to print anything said in Parliament that the Assembly president deems "defamatory to Parliament or its members." Opposition Deputies protested that the law could be used to prevent publication of legitimate criticism of the government. The Istanbul newspaper Cumhuriyet sent a copy of the statute to Professor Husein Kubali, a Sorbonne-trained...
...signs of disaffection in Turkey's heretofore scrupulously nonpolitical army. The government admitted last week that it had arrested eight active army officers on charges of "plotting," and popular Defense Minister Semi Ergin resigned, apparently in protest against the arrests. (His successor: Ethem Menderes, no kin.) Foreigners watch Adnan Menderes' headlong economic rush, and wait unhappily for the day of reckoning. "Menderes is a master brinksman," says one U.S. observer, "and somebody has to outbrink him sooner or later." Even Menderes himself once moodily remarked: "You know, I'm the kind that prefers a fast, flashy sports...