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...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...
...Hint. The next move is up to Premier Menderes, who has hinted that he might begin by relaxing enforcement of his controversial laws. One conspicuous place where he might start is the case of Kasim Gulek, the Columbia University Ph.D. who is secretary-general of the opposition Republican Party. Gulek missed last week's party congress; he was in Istanbul to defend himself against one of the dozen or more harassing charges the government has brought against him, trying to silence his political speaking...
Pears & Hazelnuts. For a while Gulek tried to counter the police with Gandhian tactics-simple handshaking tours. For the last 100 miles of his trip he abandoned ship and moved by car along the lush southeastern shore of the Black Sea, where the corn grows eight feet tall and string beans climb way up over a man's head. In this country, where peasants came out to the road to present him with such local delicacies as pears and, hazelnuts, the handshaking tactics worked well enough. But in towns, where clouds of policemen sealed him off from the populace...
After 13 hours' detention, Gulek was at last freed on bail and allowed to return to Istanbul. Gulek is already appealing an earlier sentence for "insulting the National Assembly," but some prison barber has yet to claim that gold-plated watch from Premier Menderes...
...Besides Gulek's own display of personal courage, one sign that democracy is not yet dead in Turkey was the big black headlines in Istanbul's newspapers on Gulek's Black Sea trip. Despite the Menderes press-muzzling laws, the papers circumspectly managed to get the idea across...