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...Turkey there is probably no man whom Premier Adnan Menderes would rather see behind bars than stocky Kasim Gulek, 51-year-old leader of the opposition Republican People's Party. As Gulek tells it, Menderes once promised that on the day Gulek finally went to jail the prison barber who cut off his thick black locks would be rewarded with a gold-plated watch. "That Menderes," says the opposition leader in his fluent American English,* "is a full-blooded Iroquois. He wants to scalp...
Last week shrewd Kasim Gulek deliberately offered Menderes an opportunity for scalp-lifting. Premier Menderes, faced with rising criticism of his ruinously inflationary economic policies, has grown increasingly thin-skinned. Six weeks ago Menderes pushed through Parliament a repressive law which forbids political meetings or demonstrations except in the 45 days immediately preceding elections. (Turkey's next general elections will be held in 1958.) To test the new law, Opposition Leader Gulek decided to make a political tour of Turkey's isolated Black Sea ports...
...Kindly Desist." Setting out from Istanbul by ship, accompanied by newsmen, Gulek ran into government obstructionism right from the start. At his first big port of call, the tobacco town of Samsun, the local governor not only refused Gulek permission to hold a public meeting, but also decreed that he could not even hold a closed meeting with local Republican People's Party committeemen. Coolly, Gulek answered: "We have a perfect right to hold a meeting in our own party home." To the 300 people who braved police surveillance to crowd into Samsun's small, stifling party headquarters...
...every stop after Samsun, police interference steadily increased. At Giresun, where a detachment of soldiers with fixed bayonets surrounded him the moment he stepped ashore, Gulek tried waving to onlookers, only to be warned by the police chief: "You are creating a political demonstration by waving. Kindly desist." At fabled Trebizond, where Xenophon's weary Ten Thousand finally reached the sea, the police tried to whisk Gulek from the dock to party headquarters in a car. When he insisted on making the trip by foot, they used clubs and jeeps to scatter the crowds that gathered to catch sight...
...decree lost its power, young Turks began to flock to it. In the 1920s, the new republic was hungry for new ideas, and eventually Robert could claim such alumni as Selim Sarper, Turkey's Ambassador to the U.N., Haydar Cork, Ambassador to the U.S., and Kasim Gulek, secretary-general of the Republican People's Party. Robert has never tried to Americanize its students; it has merely tried to give them a first-rate liberal arts program which includes the best of U.S. teaching. As a result, it is so thoroughly trusted that today...