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When Premier Suleyman Demirel, 42, swept to power 14 months ago, his victory was credited largely to Turkey's growing disdain for the eager flirtation with Russia carried on by his chief opponent, foxy former Premier Ismet Inönü, 83. In recent months, however, Demirel has begun some mild flirting of his own. He has received Rumanian Premier Ion Gheorghe Maurer and Bulgarian Foreign Minister Ivan Bashev, sent official delegations to Poland, Russia and Albania. Last week Demirel welcomed his biggest Communist visitor yet: Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin, the first Russian Premier ever to visit Turkey...
...first glance, all this might seem to be a radical departure for a man of pronounced pro-West sympathies. But in fact Demirel was simply making gestures that would muffle the critics in Turkey who feel he is too friendly to the West. An ambitious politician with big plans for development and reform, Demirel took office with one stiff strike against him: he was the political heir of ex-Strongman Adnan Menderes, whom the army overthrew in 1960 and executed. As a result, the army was at first suspicious of him, and the left-of-center opposition...
...rallying anti-Nasser leaders into a single alliance. So far, Feisal has strong support from non-Arab but strongly Moslem Iran, as well as Tunisia; he also enjoys sympathy from Jordan, Morocco and Kuwait. This month the King plans to visit Turkey's Premier Suleyman Demirel and, in September, Morocco's King Hassan II and possibly Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba...
...little administration had done nothing to enhance him with the voters, Inönü hoped to appeal to a radical strain in Turkish public opinion with a new and unaccustomed stance as a "left-of-center" friend of Russia. Turks aren't very radical. They vastly preferred Demirel's calls for renewed cordiality toward the West, new incentives for private enter prise and a promise "to get Turkey moving again." Left, so to speak, at the post (with only 30% of the vote), Inönü last week faced demands for retirement from many...
...five smaller parties at the expense of the large one, the Justice Party, with a majority of the vote in 62 out of 67 provinces, will hold only 240 seats out of the 450 in the Nation al Assembly (Inönü's Republicans get 134). Besides, Demirel himself showed that he knows where the real power lies. "The Turkish army," said he politely, "is a great asset to the nation. I don't know of any other army in the world that turned power over to a civilian Parliament only a year and a half after...