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...years their strength had been cut from 35% of the elected mukhtars (village headmen) to 17%. Ismet Inonu, leader of the opposition Republicans (and onetime President of Turkey, succeeding the late great Kemal Ataturk) took to the Assembly floor to accuse the government of intimidation at the polls. Premier Adnan Menderes lost his usual sangfroid. Inonu was a "liar," he cried, who "spoke with the coldbloodedness of a professional criminal." He added, staring at Inonu, "God will deal with...
...people said yes, by a landslide. On the basis of nearly final returns, the Democrats won 508 out of 541 seats. Celal Bayar would undoubtedly be chosen President, and would undoubtedly reappoint his strongman Premier Adnan Menderes, who is a first-class orator, a wily politician, and a millionaire. For the U.S., the result-though it assured a comforting continuity-was less important than the resounding demonstration of Turkish democracy at work...
...treaty of friendship, signed last year in Ankara, into a military-assistance pact. Arriving in Istanbul aboard a Yugoslav training ship, Tito barely had time to deposit his luggage at Dolmabaghché Palace before he was whisked off to Ankara to confer with President Celal Bayar and Prime Minister Adnan Menderes...
...Turkey, where the democratic administration of President Celal Bayar has been harassed by extremist newspapers, the government hesitated to shut the fanatics up. But more than a year ago, an act of violence changed the mind of President Bayar and his Premier, Adnan Menderes: Ahmed Emin Yalman of Istanbul's Vatan, one of Turkey's leading newspapers, was shot three times one night after his paper warned against the tactics of Turkish religious fanatics. Editor Yalman survived, but Premier Menderes closed up many papers and put dozens of others under close surveillance. Last week the Menderes government took...
...long live" in Greek) as King Paul and Queen Frederika debarked from the cruiser Helle. It was the first visit ever paid to Turkey by Greek monarchs. A gleaming white presidential train took the visitors off to Ankara for a station-side reception by President Celal Bayar and Premier Adnan Menderes. High point of the visit would come when the Greek monarchs placed a wreath on the tomb of Kemal Ataturk, the great Turkish strongman who had whipped their armies...