Word: cemal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that the ebullient Premier was really in jeopardy. His party commanded an almost 3-to-1 majority in the Assembly, and outside the sophisticated urban centers, his popularity among the peasant population remained high. Until the radio blared its stunning news, many Turks had never even heard of General Cemal Gursel, the longtime professional soldier who led the revolt...
...General Cemal Gursel (pronounced Jem-fl/ Goor-sell) is a professional soldier whose troops affectionately call him Cemal Aga (Big Brother Cemal). Silver-haired. scrub-mustached and corpulent (5 ft. 10 in., more than 200 Ibs.), he was born of a conservative, middle-class family in Eastern Anatolia 65 years ago, was commissioned a lieutenant in the Ot toman army at 19. As a World War I artillery officer, he fought the British at the Dardanelles and in Palestine...