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Tito was in Turkey this time to try to convert the Yugoslav-Greek-Turkish treaty of friendship, signed last year in Ankara, into a military-assistance pact. Arriving in Istanbul aboard a Yugoslav training ship, Tito barely had time to deposit his luggage at Dolmabaghché Palace before he was whisked off to Ankara to confer with President Celal Bayar and Prime Minister Adnan Menderes...
...Istanbul's Dolmabaghché Palace, from whose mullioned windows one can look out over the Bosporus to Asia Minor, there lay sick abed a medium-sized, lean, 59-year-old man with receding colorless hair and a cultivated, fixed stare. The celebration was held because 15 years ago this soldier-statesman - born simple Mustafa, then called Mustafa Kemal (Perfection), later renamed by Turkey's legislators Kamâl Atatürk (''Perfection, Father of All Turks") - had pronounced: "I decide that Turkey become a Republic with a President...
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