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Snatched out of school in 1917 to serve in the Ottoman army, Adnan saw no combat in World War I, but made up for that deficiency after the war, when Greece, backed by Britain and France, set out to annex large chunks of the defeated and disintegrating Turkish empire. As a member of the Turkish underground, Menderes took part in a rebellion against the Greek forces occupying his native Aydin. Later, as an army lieutenant, he served under Mustafa Kemal Ataturk in the offensive that recaptured Izmir from the hapless Greeks. (Among the factors contributing to the defeat...
...midst of this turmoil, young Adnan Menderes confined his energies to the management of his estate. He was often seen riding across his fields at midnight for a last check. "He learned on the farm," says a friend, "that the work went best when he tended to it personally from beginning to end, and he got in the habit. Today he's still like a farmer watching his crops." He sold or gave the bulk of his properties to families that lived on them, then converted the 3,000 acres he still had into one of Turkey...
...Ataturk and his heirs. In 1950, in the scrupulously honest election insisted upon by aging President Ismet Inonu, the Democrats rode into power on a surprising landslide, winning 408 Assembly seats to the Republicans' 69. Celal Bayar, the elder statesman of the Democratic Party, replaced Inonu as President. Adnan Menderes became Premier of Turkey...
...Boldly, Adnan Menderes set out to alter all this-at first by his announced program of relying on free enterprise. He rewrote Turkey's laws to encourage foreign investment by such means as easy profit transfers and the promise of generous exploitation terms to anyone who found oil. He encouraged private investment in textile production and light industry. Among his first acts was abolition of the rigid import controls that the Republicans had established at the beginning of World War II. The consequence was that the Turks, starved for almost a decade for the products of Western industry, began...
...Blood Feud." Adnan Menderes chooses to treat such criticism of his policies as personal persecution. "This," he once shouted in response to a series of political attacks, "is not democracy; it is a blood feud!" He has cracked down on the urban intellectuals who are his bitterest opponents, just as they were Ataturk's. In one repressive move after another, he persuaded the Grand National Assembly to bar university professors from politics, authorize the forcible retirement of judges unsympathetic to the government, and establish heavy fines and prison sentences for newsmen whose writings could be considered "harmful...