Word: altay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before mounting the makeshift gallows, Menderes had turned to Altay Egesel, chief prosecutor at the Yassiada trial, and said: "Please tell my son never to mix in politics. When one is in politics one cannot control his destiny." Last week Yuksel Menderes, 31, who had announced his intention of running for deputy on the New Turkey Party ticket in Aydin, his father's birthplace, withdrew his candidacy for "personal reasons...
...nothing in the evidence seemed to justify the death penalty that State Prosecutor Altay Egesel so frequently demanded for both Menderes and Bayar. (So far, death has been demanded for Bayar on four separate counts, for Menderes on seven, including the comparatively trivial Istanbul expropriations case.) In the eyes of many, the circus-like atmosphere of the trials demeaned such points as the prosecution was able to make. Sharp sallies against Menderes & Co. by Prosecutor Egesel and the presiding judge are applauded by a courtroom claque, responses by the defendants jeered...