Word: ankara
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Midas was no legend. Generations of kings bearing his name reigned over Phrygia from the great city of Gordium,* now a desert waste 70 miles southwest of Turkey's Ankara. Two years ago an archaeological expedition mounted by the University of Pennsylvania, scratching the Gordian ground, broke through to tombs, closed up eight centuries before Christ. One contained the bones of Midas' line. Also found in the tombs were a four-poster bed (bearing a five-ft.-three-skeleton), inlaid screens and tables, riding gear, weapons and quantities of bronze objects, from giant caldrons ornamented with winged figures...
Flying into Ankara last week to celebrate Greece's post-Cyprus reconciliation with Turkey, Greek Premier Constantine Karamanlis was greeted by a scene of happy unity-crowds of cheering adults and waving children docilely respecting a human fence of smart, white-gloved soldiers. Had he arrived two hours earlier...
Karamanlis would have seen something different: the police and armed forces of the Turkish Republic forcibly attempting to prevent ordinary citizens of Ankara from welcoming ex-President Ismet Inonu. 74, leader of Turkey's Republican People's Party and leading opponent of Premier Adnan Menderes' ruling Democrats...
...political differences, a crowd of 7,000 broke through police lines to cheer Inonu with cries of "Hurriyet!" (Freedom). Police tried tear gas, only to have their grenades thrown back at them by foresighted demonstrators who came equipped with gloves. Undeterred by all the fighting, Inonu moved on to Ankara...
Aegean provinces. The Menderes government's attitude became clear at the start: on his departure from Ankara, police refused to let any of Inonu's supporters into the railway station. When he tried to speak from the train to a crowd of Republicans at Eskisehir, a city of 125,000, engine whistles blasted throughout his speech, and a freight train was backed onto the main line between Inonu and the crowd...