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There was only a brief ceremony for the 30 students receiving their college degrees in a drab, grey building behind the Turkish Parliament in Ankara. Barely a handful of people were present. The students had no caps and gowns; nor were their diplomas engraved in traditional fashion-just plain typed certificates. But if the surroundings were drab last week, the occasion was not. It was the first graduation of the Middle East Technical University, organized to overcome the lag in technical education in the underdeveloped Middle East, and to do it in a hurry. Says the school's American...
This buoyant calm was shattered just two nights after the revolution when one of the new government's most hated prisoners, former Interior Minister Namik Gedik, suddenly leaped out of his bed on the top floor of Ankara's military academy. Shrieking "Ya Allah" (O God), he plunged through an unopened double glass window to his death. The hysterical suicide of the boss of Menderes' national police, the man held responsible for beatings and killings of anti-Menderes student demonstrators, shocked the new government and stirred the avenging wrath of the soldiers behind it. Abruptly abandoning...
...Cabinet, almost entirely composed of able technicians, met nonstop in one room of Ankara's government building, the junta held round-the-clock sessions a few doors down the hall. Eating meals brought from a nearby restaurant and sleeping in his office ("I make the bed myself. That's why it looks so bad"), General Gursel hopped from one meeting to the other...
...Herd. On the morning of the revolution, General Gursel was fetched by military jet from his Izmir home. By 9:30 a.m., he was sitting at Menderes' desk in Ankara, proclaiming himself provisional head of government and the armed forces. "I tried to reason with the politicians, but they were blinded by ambition. We had to act," he told the nation in a radio broadcast. "They ignored my advice. They thought the Turkish nation was a senseless herd." He added: "I have no intention, I repeat, no intention whatever of being a dictator.'' The whole purpose...
...Start. Few army coups have ever been more popular. In Istanbul people hung out flags, danced in the streets and yelled: "Freedom, freedom!'' Cheering throngs in Ankara hoisted soldiers, sailors, airmen on their shoulders. The army, most Turks felt, had snatched the country from the hands of the privileged few in power and restored it to the people...