Word: ertugrul
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Second Reason. In their anger at the ministers who had tried to use the military as a tool to perpetuate tyranny, the officers blurted a new reason for vengeance. Speaking for the National Union Committee, Colonel Ertugrul Alatli announced that bodies of opponents of the Menderes regime had been found in circumstances that indicated they had been beaten to death in Menderes' jails and preserved for secret disposal later. Said a junta statement: "Some martyrs have been buried in unknown places, some thrown in wells, some kept in cold storage plants and even some cut up to be used...
...Manhattan, TIME Associate Editor Robert McLaughlin and Researcher Irene Ertugrul met with economists and Japanese experts, conferred with Japanese diplomats, writers and historians, read books ranging from cultural treatises to military histories to immerse themselves in the hierarchic quality and other-worldish flavor of Japanese life. For TIME readers who would like to experience the Japanese essence at greater length, they recommend a partial bibliography...
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