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...independent Senator without party affiliation. Chances are that Urguplu was picked by President Cemal Gürsel only as a temporary Premier while a political battle is fought out between the two real antagonists on the Turkish political scene-the Republican Party's Inönü and the Justice Party's Suleyman Demirel, who brought Inönü down with an opposition attack in Parliament...
Whether he would stay resigned was a question; Inönü quit once before, in 1963, only to accept reappointment by President Cemal Gursel. Whatever the case, Turkey seemed a step closer to a showdown between the nation's feuding factions...
...Again. For the time being, at least, the army was sticking to its pledge of political neutrality, but no one could be sure how long the military would resist the idea of restoring "stability" by staging another takeover. By week's end Turkey's President, General Cemal Gursel, came to Inonu and asked him to form a new Cabinet; conceivably he might succeed, by persuading one of the small parties to join a coalition and picking, up enough defectors elsewhere to scrape up a parliamentary majority. After all, Inonu's immediate aim was not a stable government...
Chaos & Coups. The aim of General Cemal Gursel's coup had been to eliminate financial chaos and corruption, invigorate the stagnant economy, restore political liberty. While the ghost of the hanged Menderes still haunted the nation, the army returned the country to civilian rule last October and sponsored parliamentary elections that made Gursel President, but failed to provide a stable majority to enact essential reforms. The result is a freakish two-party coalition government that joins the army-favored Republican People's Party of Premier Ismet Inonu with its archenemies, the political heirs of Menderes gathered...
Five weeks after indecisive Turkish elections substituted shaky civilian rule for a military junta, the nation still had no functioning government. But after prodding by Junta Strongman Cemal Gursel, now President, squabbling politicians last week finally formed a Cabinet, result of a shotgun wedding between the two parties that most strenuously campaigned against each other and then received an almost equal share of the popular vote...