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...tried to stage new demonstrations against the ruling Democrats during the three-day NATO foreign ministers' meeting were thrown back by troops. The legislative "inquiry" into the opposition Republicans' "subversive and illegal" activities was already well under way in star-chamber secrecy. At midweek, students in Ankara began bandying about the rallying password "55 K" (translation: May 5 at 5 p.m. at Kizilay Square). The password reached the ears of the police, and the Menderes forces thought they saw an opportunity to organize a counter-demonstration to show the world that the mass of Turks still gave their...
Next day the only newspaper published in Istanbul or Ankara was Menderes' Democratic Party organ, Zajer. Its caption (over a photo snapped just before the storm struck in the square): TREMENDOUS OVATION GIVEN OUR PRIME MINISTER SHOWS AFFECTION OF PEOPLE. But Foreign Minister Fatin Zorlu acknowledged that some 50 demonstrators had been arrested after the "ovation," added grimly: "The parliamentary inquiry will take care of them...
...Next day Ankara students took to the streets. Four thousand strong, they massed outside their university buildings, shouting "Freedom!" and "Down with all dictators!" At the law school, guns cracked, and eight ambulances screamed off with injured students. Students also rioted at Izmir. In Istanbul a crowd of about 15,000 collected in Beyazit Square, but the crowd seemed more interested in watching the students than in joining them in their protest. Troops were able to break up the demonstration by deliberately marching and countermarching until they had pushed everybody out of the square...
...students, he said, had become "tools of conspirators" and "fanatic party followers." He called their demonstrations "plots against the country's security." "They will soon learn," he said in his disarmingly soft voice, "what it means to stand against the state." In the morning, the Premier visited Ankara student dormitories-and got no back talk from the students...
...began its work by banning all political activity for three months and suspending four newspapers for reporting details of the Assembly session. This was intended, said a spokesman, to have "a calming effect." But as old Ismet Inonu left the Anatolia Club that afternoon to walk 400 yards to Ankara's Ish Bank, a crowd of 5.000 formed quickly around him. They shouted "Hurriyet [Freedom]" and began singing the famed marching song that Turks sang at Samsun in 1919 when the late great Ataturk landed to launch the fight for an independent Turkish republic. But not for long. Truckloads...