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Running Conflict. The broadcast ultimatum came as a stunning shock to Prime Minister Suleyman Demirel, 46, who was fond of saying that only a parliamentary majority could depose him. But the military left him no room for maneuver, and he quickly resigned...
...last time Turkey's generals overthrew an elected government was in 1960 when they ousted Demirel's predecessor, Adnan Menderes, for corruption and repression, and hanged him. Before returning the country to the politicians, the soldiers framed a new constitution that was adopted in 1961, and they took a certain pride of authorship in seeing it work. The course of government under Demirel was a source of ever-increasing dismay to them...
Functioning Normally. Demirel, a onetime engineer turned reform-minded politician, seemed unable to pacify the country's warring factions. He lost considerable personal prestige by using his influence to swing a reported $2,000,000 in bank loans for his two businessmen brothers, Sevket and Ali, and then trying to block a parliamentary investigation of the affair. When four U.S. airmen were kidnaped two weeks ago (see box), Demirel left it to others to appeal to the kidnapers to spare the airmen's lives. His weak performance finally exhausted the patience of Turkey's generals...
Afraid that the latest incident could bring down his shaky government, Premier Süleyman Demirel ordered troops to raid Middle East Technical University outside Ankara, a center of leftist student activity. Students threw sticks of dynamite and fired pistols from dormitory roofs: one student and one soldier were killed. Disturbances erupted elsewhere in Ankara as college and high school students went on a rampage, and Demirel reluctantly considered imposing martial law. The reason he hesitated was that his Justice Party has a narrow margin in Parliament (225 to 220), and its rejection of a proposal to proclaim martial...
Plain Paper Bag. The 1961 constitution took away much of the urban elite's power and gave it to the peasantry, which put Demirel's Justice Party in office in 1965. U.S. support for Demirel's government irritated the urban elite, which consists of students, intellectuals, professionals and a largely leftist press...