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...more novel Menderes gimmick is an agency to control all newspaper and magazine advertising. Advertisers must place their ads with the agency, and Minister of State Emin Kalafat allocates them to whatever publication he chooses. So far, the agency has not worked too well: some advertisers are insisting on having their ads placed in the publications of their own choice. But if Turkey's publishers had any doubts about the power of the government's new club, they had only to consider the case of 33-year-old Metin Toker. Last year Toker spent seven months in jail...
...AHMED EMIN YALMAN...
...poisoned arrows, and many a gentle rebuke from Stanley's elephant gun. Before Stanley died peacefully in bed in 1904, he seemed compelled again and again to try to re-enact his first and greatest triumph. He was a one-man missing-persons bureau when he went after Emin Pasha (real name: Eduard Schnitzer), German-born governor of a British-controlled province in the Sudan. The Pasha had been trapped in the interior during the Mahdi's uprising, was even more reluctant to be found than Dr. Livingstone. Stanley set out with an expedition that included eight white...
Said Vatan's Editor Ahmet Emin Yalman, Menderes' powerful press backer in two elections: "Laicism is one of the principal cornerstones of modern Turkey. To make concessions on this subject for political reasons is an action not befitting a head of government." Istanbul's Cumhuriyet, another past supporter of Menderes, denounced any plan to "touch the foundation pillar of the Ataturk era." The opposition Republicans and the new Freedom Party blasted Menderes' pronouncement as "unconstitutional" and conceived in failure. Though only last month the government had shut up two newspapers for saying less. Menderes made...
...Turkey, where the democratic administration of President Celal Bayar has been harassed by extremist newspapers, the government hesitated to shut the fanatics up. But more than a year ago, an act of violence changed the mind of President Bayar and his Premier, Adnan Menderes: Ahmed Emin Yalman of Istanbul's Vatan, one of Turkey's leading newspapers, was shot three times one night after his paper warned against the tactics of Turkish religious fanatics. Editor Yalman survived, but Premier Menderes closed up many papers and put dozens of others under close surveillance. Last week the Menderes government took...