Word: gursel
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Free elections get further away in Turkey, while political problems multiply. When he first overthrew ex-Premier Adnan Menderes (TIME, June 6), General Cemal Gursel. the straightforward fighting man who runs Turkey's 50-man military junta, estimated that it would be three months at most before elections to install a new civilian government could be held. Last week, exactly three months after his coup, Gursel postponed the elections until next May 27, his first anniversary in power. Even if voting should be delayed a bit beyond that date, he added, "you may take it as definite that...
There was no sign yet that the general wanted to become a dictator; he had simply underestimated the job. Ousted Premier Menderes left behind a ten-year record of budget deficits totaling $248 million, a foreign debt of $1.3 billion. To avoid bankruptcy, Gursel has canceled half of the 1,314 ambitious public works projects planned or under way in the Menderes era and has postponed work on acres of city rebuilding, including construction of fancy opera houses in Istanbul and Izmir...
...people) gets 15 Parliament seats and 30% of all civil service jobs. Last week the Turkish Cypriot leader, Dr. Fazil Kuchuk, threatened to delay the treaty signing unless all the jobs were handed over at once. Only an appeal from Turkey's Acting President Cemal Gursel, who was anxious for a settlement, brought Kuchuk to the table...
...ceremony was broadcast over a nationwide radio hookup. Afterward. Gursel declared: "History has never witnessed an event like this. I cannot predict how history will evaluate it. What I do know is that the Turkish nation in the past has created great things in the field of governing and has now displayed to the world an example of reform...
Elections Next Spring. But Turkey's soldiers were slowly realizing the job of cleaning up after the Menderes regime was bigger than even Cemal Gursel first supposed. The university professors working on a new constitution now do not expect to finish it until well into July. If elections cannot be held in the fall, they may have to be put off until spring, since large parts of Turkey are snowed in during the winter. The delay has the advantage of allowing time for political regrouping, since an immediate election would undoubtedly produce a landslide for the Republicans and leave...