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Five hundred autos filled with Justice Party followers formed a traffic-snarling motorcade to escort the 79-year-old Bayar from prison to his Ankara home. Next day, huge crowds milled around the house, and 10,000 supporters massed near parliament to shout his slogans. Two sympathetic Turkish air force pilots happily buzzed the city in their jets...
...midafternoon in Ulus Square, in the heart of Ankara, shoppers, office workers and bystanders jammed the streets. At the railroad station near by, a retired Turkish air force general heard a noise and looked up. The Middle East Airlines jet-prop Viscount was coming into a low-hanging cloud bank on its way toward a landing at Ankara airport. And then, to his horror. the general saw a Turkish air force C-47 Dakota cargo plane lumber into the same cloud from the opposite direction. In a flash of flame, the two rammed headon, dumping flaming wreckage into the crowds...
...back. Gulek and two other dissident leaders were summoned before the party's disciplinary committee and suspended for a year on charges that they had made damaging public political statements. But many party members thought the punishment was too severe. Last week, as 1,300 Republicans gathered in Ankara for their annual convention, 600 of the delegates signed a petition demanding that Gulek and the two others be reinstated...
...bombed and strafed a Turkish village along the border between the two countries. Next day Turkish jets, catching two more Iraqi raiders inside Turkey, attacked and crippled one of Kassem's planes, which limped back across the frontier and crashed in Iraq. Angry diplomatic notes were exchanged between Ankara and Baghdad; in a fiery broadcast, Baghdad charged that Turkey not only was helping the Kurds but also had violated Iraqi air space with its jets...
...Something of a tradition: site of the first American campus outside the U.S. is Istanbul's Robert College (1863). Americans also helped found Ankara's Middle East Technical University...