Word: celal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ruled for twelve years, and was regarded by his enemies as a vengeful and haughty dictator. In 19461-eight years after Ataturk's death-the people voted for the first time, and returned Inonu's Republicans by a landslide. The Democrats, led by another Ataturk lieutenant, Banker Celal Bayar, charged that they had been jobbed. In 1950 the Democrats, who had built up a strong appeal to Turkey's peasants, won by a reverse landslide. At this key point, having permitted a free election and lost, Inonu stepped down gracefully, and thereby became the father of Turkish...
...convert the Yugoslav-Greek-Turkish treaty of friendship, signed last year in Ankara, into a military-assistance pact. Arriving in Istanbul aboard a Yugoslav training ship, Tito barely had time to deposit his luggage at Dolmabaghché Palace before he was whisked off to Ankara to confer with President Celal Bayar and Prime Minister Adnan Menderes...
...Turkey, where the democratic administration of President Celal Bayar has been harassed by extremist newspapers, the government hesitated to shut the fanatics up. But more than a year ago, an act of violence changed the mind of President Bayar and his Premier, Adnan Menderes: Ahmed Emin Yalman of Istanbul's Vatan, one of Turkey's leading newspapers, was shot three times one night after his paper warned against the tactics of Turkish religious fanatics. Editor Yalman survived, but Premier Menderes closed up many papers and put dozens of others under close surveillance. Last week the Menderes government took...
...departed for his month-long tour of the U.S., Turkey's President Celal Bayar pushed through the Grand National Assembly a law designed to attract private U.S. money. The law guarantees foreign investors the right to take 100% of their profits out of the country, and 100% of their principal, too. Another evidence of Turkey's hospitality toward foreign capital is a bill, expected to pass soon, which opens the nation's oil resources to exploration and development by non-Turkish companies. At present Turkey produces practically no oil, thus is forced to spend about...
...tried to industrialize his nation through a cumbersome form of state socialism. The Turkish constitution, written in the 1920s, declared the nation to be "etatist" (i.e., state socialist). But as the Turks saw the disappointing returns of state socialism, the etatist ideology withered. In 1950 the voters elected Celal Bayar, an outspoken advocate of free enterprise, as President...