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Even to the most ardent supporter of Turkey's new military regime, the mass trial on Yassiada Island of hundreds of officials of the old civilian government seemed to be off to a shaky start. It was bad enough to begin with the trivial charge that ousted President Celal Bayar -onetime companion in arms to the late great Kemal Ataturk-had gypped the government in the sale of a shaggy dog. Last week the prosecution seemed intent on proving only that ex-Premier Adnan Menderes, married and the father of three sons, was indiscreetly fond of girls...
...months the Turkish army regime has labored like so many busy Hollywood stagehands. They were preparing a vast public trial of the civilians they ousted from power, President Celal Bayar and Premier Adnan Menderes. Last week, on the fortress island of Yassiada in the Sea of Marmara, in a converted basketball court where Turkish recruits once sweated and exercised, the show began...
...arrest of Turkey's former Vice Premier and Foreign Minister, Mehmet Fuat Koprulu, 69, a respected professor and one of the founding members of the Democratic Party. Koprulu's part had been apparently minor. The chief culprits, said the Turkish government, were already in custody-President Celal Bayar, Premier Adnan Menderes, and ex-Foreign Minister Fatin Zorlu. This is the story as told by a : spokesman for Turkey's new military junta...
...Among all the leaders of the Turkish regime overthrown by last May's military revolution, the toughest was President Celal Bayar, 77, a veteran of the bomb-throwing resistance to the Ottoman tyranny before World War I. He is also the man most Turks consider responsible for inspiring the most onerous of the policies of the old government. Last week, on the eve of the scheduled trial of Turkey's deposed rulers, the old terrorist tried to escape the execution he expects. In the island prison near Istanbul where he is being held along with ex-Premier Adnan...
...reformers also are having second thoughts about how to proceed in bringing ex-Premier Menderes, ex-President Celal Bayar and more than 400 other arrested Democratic leaders to trial for corruption. The army reformers are increasingly aware that vindictive, Castro-style blood-letting would only hurt Turkey's world standing, are considerably less bloodthirsty than the press or public in demanding punishment of the old regime. "If the army had wanted to kill all those men," said a Turk appointed to one of the 15 (out of 19) interim ministries assigned to civilians, "it could easily have killed them...