Word: gursel
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Died. Cemal Gursel, 71, president of Turkey until last March, a career army officer who in 1960 headed a military junta that toppled and eventually executed Premier Adnan Menderes, then, insisting on a new constitution and free elections in 1961, was voted President in a coalition government; after a series of strokes last February put him into a coma from which he never awoke; in Ankara...
...cheering supporters last week, he ran into a crowd of hostile Republicans, and the two groups eyed one another dangerously. "Leave them alone," Demirel cried to his friends. "If they want to kill me, let them. I shall die for the nation." His antics prompted ailing President Cemal Gursel, 70, head of the junta that overthrew Menderes, to hint that if Demirel tries strong-arm tactics now or after the election, the military will force him to desist. "We are not a mature nation," said Gursel. "We take many roads, legal and illegal and sometimes dangerous, to exploit the people...
Whether he would stay resigned was a question; Inönü quit once before, in 1963, only to accept reappointment by President Cemal Gursel. Whatever the case, Turkey seemed a step closer to a showdown between the nation's feuding factions...
...Again. For the time being, at least, the army was sticking to its pledge of political neutrality, but no one could be sure how long the military would resist the idea of restoring "stability" by staging another takeover. By week's end Turkey's President, General Cemal Gursel, came to Inonu and asked him to form a new Cabinet; conceivably he might succeed, by persuading one of the small parties to join a coalition and picking, up enough defectors elsewhere to scrape up a parliamentary majority. After all, Inonu's immediate aim was not a stable government...
Shouts & Whispers. Under the constitution, President Gursel has little real power, but he continues to exert pressure on the politicians. Regularly, he climbs into the presidential Cadillac, speeds from his seaside villa near Istanbul to buttonhole and prod key politicians and military commanders. Gursel today is a spry 67, has almost fully recovered from a partial paralysis he suffered 17 months ago; he has also broken the chain-smoking habit and is proud of it. "During those first days," he recalls, "I felt that someone had me by the throat and voices were whispering in my ear 'Smoke, smoke...