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...unexpected atmosphere of sweetness and restraint has fallen on Turkey's landscape of savage political warfare, and no Turk can imagine how long it will last. Premier Adnan Menderes' economic troubles seem to be at the bottom of it. While exploiting his Democratic Party's 455-to-86 Assembly majority to enact a whole series of laws curbing the press and restraining political discussions, the tough-minded Premier has pushed his all-out campaign to expand Turkey's productive capacity so far that Turkey is heading for a stern economic reckoning...
...Premier Adnan Menderes expressed dismay, moved in tanks, and arrested 4,300 rioters. But many observers were convinced that someone had organized the riots, at least at the start-perhaps to divert attention from Turkey's growing economic distress. They pointed out that the rioters arrived in well-organized squads, equipped with crowbars and iron claws to pry open steel shop shutters, and that the government did not stop the riot until around midnight, when it had shown signs of becoming a general protest against the regime. Menderes suspended five newspapers for charging the government with failure to stop...
...Illiberal & Undemocratic." Turkish Prime Minister Adnan Menderes. who argues that Greek control of Cyprus would pose an intolerable threat to Turkey's security, found the Radcliffe constitution "logical material for negotiation" and Lennox-Boyd's partition talk "an interesting, attractive idea." Yet one high British official who should know insists that "partition could never work because . . . you would have to shift whole villages. There is no one area where Turks predominate." Greek Foreign Minister Evangelos Averoff denounced the British plan as "illiberal and undemocratic" and angrily pressed Greece's demand for a U.N. debate on self-determination...
...founded a magazine critical of Turkey's economic plight. To Feyzioglu, the government's action against the professor was a serious blow "to the principle of university autonomy." In almost any other country such a remark might have gone unnoticed. But it was too much for Premier Adnan Menderes...
...Turkey there is probably no man whom Premier Adnan Menderes would rather see behind bars than stocky Kasim Gulek, 51-year-old leader of the opposition Republican People's Party. As Gulek tells it, Menderes once promised that on the day Gulek finally went to jail the prison barber who cut off his thick black locks would be rewarded with a gold-plated watch. "That Menderes," says the opposition leader in his fluent American English,* "is a full-blooded Iroquois. He wants to scalp...