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...some fashion, this rapidly worsening situation. She invited Greece and herself--and, most important, Turkey. Turkey, one could say, has a legitimate interest in Cyprus, since the island lies within sight of her southeastern shore and since one-fifth of the Cypriot populace is Turkish; but the government in Ankara had, to this point, been quite nonchalant about the whole affair. Confronting Greece with Turkey was like waving a red flag in front of a bull. In no time at all the struggle for Cyprus had a third participant...
...food is wretched, the beds are lumpy and the place has no central heating. But to Turkey's top newsmen, a stay at the "Ankara Hilton" has become a matter of personal and professional pride. Reason: the wryly nicknamed "Ankara Hilton" is the special bullpen in Ankara's Central Prison for newsmen who have dared to criticize the government of Turkey's Premier Adnan Menderes...
...Western institution of the free press. For the first four years of his administration, relations between government and press were good. Shortly after the 1954 elections the opposition press became bitingly critical, and the administration began to strike back. Sweeping Menderes-backed laws can check a newsman into the "Ankara Hilton" for any story that lessens the public's regard for the Premier or his administration...
Last week the Ankara Court of Appeals upheld jail sentences for five more newsmen, including Managing Editor Nihat Subasi of the daily Ankara Ulus, official organ of the opposition Republican People's Party, and Managing Editor Tarik Halulu of the weekly newsmagazine Akis. Since the first press-gag law was passed in 1954, a score of newsmen have been imprisoned for crimes ranging from criticism of Menderes' financial policies to the suggestion that the Premier married for money. What is more, Menderes has suspended publication of Akis, has even dared to close down Ulus, the newspaper founded...
...with what they called a seven-year adventure in partnership-even though it is a queer partnership when the Greeks refuse to be a partner. Partnership would divide the Greek Cypriot majority and the Turkish Cypriot minority on Cyprus into separate legislative councils, and would bring the Athens and Ankara governments into a kind of tridominium rule with Britain. This, the Greeks argued with good cause, would merely freeze the hatreds of the island for the next seven years...