Word: ankara
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Among archaeologists, a step backward is a step forward-and last week a giant step backward was reported by British Digger James Mellaart, 31, assistant director of the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, Turkey. In the ruins of Hacilar, an ancient Anatolian town 200 miles southwest of Ankara. Mellaart has discovered the remains of a culture so sophisticated as to shatter all previous notions about Late Neolithic man. In Hacilar 7,500 years ago, women wore jewelry, artists produced the first known realistic sculptures of the human figure, kids played at marbles and men at asik, a game resembling...
...bloodless military coup overthrew the regime of Premier Adnan Menderes, Turkey appears at last on its way to a restoration of constitutional government. Portly General Cemal Gursel is back in charge after being laid low for a month by a slight paralysis; an appointed Constituent Assembly is gathering in Ankara this week to set up new elections...
...hide the facts, word got out last week: Turkey's Strongman General Cemal Gursel, 66 and portly (5 ft. 10 in., 200 Ibs.), had suffered a partial paralysis of the left arm and side that also affected his speech. As relatives secretly gathered at his bedside in Ankara, anxious members of the ruling junta held hurried conferences with Gursel's doctors to determine what to say to the public and when...
...Gursel's 16 attending physicians, Dr. Ismet Karacan, who had been an assistant to Harvard Neurologist Dr. Raymond Adams, suggested calling him in. Dr. Adams flew from Boston to Ankara. Last week, after Dr. Adams had examined General Gursel, the relieved panel of doctors announced that the general's disability was only a "minor circulatory disturbance in the nervous system." At week's end the general, his paralysis gone, was beginning to transact state business from his bed, was expected to be fully restored and back at his desk in a matter of weeks...
Speeding through Ankara just after sunup one morning last week, police squads knocked on door after door. To the men who answered-all key armed forces officers and members of the National Unity Committee that has been running Turkey since the May 27 revolution-the police presented documents, with blunt instructions to sign them immediately. As they complied, the officers found themselves simultaneously resigning from the Unity Committee and retiring from the army. Thus neatly did Turkey's boss, laconic General Cemal Gursel, purge the 14 men who had been opposing his plans to restore democracy to Turkey...