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...Best Bike. Until he became Premier in 1950, Adnan Menderes (rhymes roughly with trend-in-dress) had never administered anything but the family farm near the southwestern Turkish town of Aydin, where he was born in 1899-he does not remember the month or day. He was orphaned soon after birth, thereby fell heir to 30,000 acres of cotton and wheat land watered by the river known to the Turks as the Menderes and to the ancient Greeks as the Meander. (It was affection for his birthplace that led the dynamic Adnan to choose so undescriptive a surname when...
...made up for that deficiency after the war, when Greece, backed by Britain and France, set out to annex large chunks of the defeated and disintegrating Turkish empire. As a member of the Turkish underground, Menderes took part in a rebellion against the Greek forces occupying his native Aydin. Later, as an army lieutenant, he served under Mustafa Kemal Ataturk in the offensive that recaptured Izmir from the hapless Greeks. (Among the factors contributing to the defeat of the Greeks: their commanding general's conviction that his legs were made of glass and would break if he moved about...
...elections two weeks ago. But this week when the new National Assembly met for the first time, its strong Democratic majority overruled 67-year-old Celal Bayar and elected him President. Bayar, an advocate of less government interference with business, chose as Premier Adnan Menderes, a wealthy landowner of Aydin...