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...General Gursel briskly set to work to abolish all trace of the repressive measures Menderes had imposed. He freed 200 students and nine newsmen, licensed 14 banned newspapers to start publishing again. Ahmet Emin Yalman, dean of Turkish journalism, published his first art:'c':e since his release from prison last month: "The Turkish armed forces are marching forward with giant steps on the road opened by Ataturk." General Gursel fetched seven professors from Istanbul to help draft a provisional constitution. One was Istanbul University President Siddik Sami Onar, who was badly beaten by Menderes' police when...
...government took pains to assure Turkey's allies that the new regime was dedicated to maintaining Turkey's commitments to NATO, CENTO and the West. One of Gursel's first acts was to dispatch a colonel to inform U.S. Ambassador Fletcher Warren: "Tell the U.S. that we want to build a Turkey on the model...
...week's end, Gursel shipped Menderes and other top officials to an island in the Sea of Mamora for safekeeping, and declared that they might not be freed before the promised elections. His explanation: "A little rest might do Menderes and his party good." Meanwhile Ismet Inonu was hailed by cheering crowds wherever he went...
General Cemal Gursel (pronounced Jem-fl/ Goor-sell) is a professional soldier whose troops affectionately call him Cemal Aga (Big Brother Cemal). Silver-haired. scrub-mustached and corpulent (5 ft. 10 in., more than 200 Ibs.), he was born of a conservative, middle-class family in Eastern Anatolia 65 years ago, was commissioned a lieutenant in the Ot toman army at 19. As a World War I artillery officer, he fought the British at the Dardanelles and in Palestine...
After the war. when Greece tried to grab off large chunks of defeated Turkey, Gursel joined the forces of the late great Kemal Ataturk, helped to expel the Greek armies and to convert Turkey from an Islamic sultanate to a secular republic...