Word: demirel
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...death. Menderes' peasant-based Democratic Party was banned, and the triumphant Republicans of wizened old Ismet Inönü took over. But Menderes' popularity, it seems, has only ripened with time. Barely a fortnight before the nation's general elections, his unofficial successor, Suleyman Demirel, 41, stands a chance of winning the lion's share...
...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...
...Cabinet, Demirel, 41, a Western-minded economist, is Deputy Premier, and his resurgent party holds ten of 22 Cabinet posts. As the political heir of the late irresponsible but popular Strongman Adnan Menderes, the Justice Party is still distrusted by the real power in Turkey, the army. Demirel wants to show that he can regain the army's confidence and that the army-backed Inönü is not indispensable...
...refused to back Turkey all the way against Greece over the embittered Cyprus issue, Ismet Inönü has demonstrated his independence from the U.S. by flirting with Russia. Of late, Inönü-inspired newspapers have been campaigning hard to tag the U.S.-educated Demirel as a Washington stooge, obviously hoping to damage him in the forthcoming elections...
...occasion this time was the presentation of Inönü's 1965 budget, totaling a record $1.6 billion. Though nobody actually had much against the budget, J.P. Leader Suleyman Demirel, 41, a wealthy, U.S.-trained civil engineer, mounted an assault on it to discredit Inönü. The Premier was vulnerable: backed solidly by only 192 members of the 450-seat National Assembly, Inönü ruled with the aid of a mere handful of independents. When the vote came last week, the Justice Party, which has 171 Assembly seats, had rounded up enough support from...