Word: demirkirat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Suleyman Demirel, 41, is a hardheaded peasant's son, a construction engineer who once worked with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, later amassed a private fortune as an Ankara contractor. He inherited the party and prestige of Turkey's slain strongman, Adnan Menderes, and adroitly harnessed the demirkirat, or iron grey horse, which was the symbol of Menderes' Democratic Party, for his own Justice Party...
...campaign for leadership of the Turkish government, Demirel was attacked by his opposition as too pro-American. As it turned out, that seemed to be a compliment. Demirel last week rode the demirkirat to an overwhelming victory, received 55.5% of the vote, far more than anyone had expected, and took over as Premier...
...military, which holds the real balance of power, still bans any direct reference to the slain strongman or the use of his Democratic Party's name, but Demirel's Justice Party uses as its symbol an iron-grey horse-and the word for that, in dialect, is demirkirat. The demirkirat has become so popular that in one Black Sea village a Justice Party supporter last week knifed a Republican who, he felt, was singing a folk song about a grey horse without the proper respect...
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