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...Some longtime members of the Democratic Party have resigned in disgust. More ominous are the first signs of disaffection in Turkey's heretofore scrupulously nonpolitical army. The government admitted last week that it had arrested eight active army officers on charges of "plotting," and popular Defense Minister Semi Ergin resigned, apparently in protest against the arrests. (His successor: Ethem Menderes, no kin.) Foreigners watch Adnan Menderes' headlong economic rush, and wait unhappily for the day of reckoning. "Menderes is a master brinksman," says one U.S. observer, "and somebody has to outbrink him sooner or later." Even Menderes himself...
Kasim Gulek, leader of the opposition Republican People's Party, criticized the government for not raising wheat prices even more. The Freedom Party's Feridun Ergin pointed an inflationary moral: "This new price will not satisfy the farmers. In 1951 it took 400 kilos of wheat to buy a good suit of clothes. In 1957 it takes 860." Others predicted that the new wheat price increase would have to be financed by printing 60 million to 70 million pounds of new currency, thus further reducing the value of the Turkish pound, which already could be bought...
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