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...Turkish elections three weeks ago, no party won a clear mandate, but the Republicans, favored by the armed forces and by General Cemal Gursel's junta, suffered a setback while the Justice Party, drawing supporters of executed Premier Adnan Menderes, showed considerable strength. In the wake of these results, as the parties maneuvered to form a new government, the country's top military brass* gathered ominously in Ankara. Out to the politicians went an invitation as crisp as a parade-ground command: form a coalition government of all major parties, with Gursel as President, or face a military...
...Turkish election campaign was conducted in the shadow of the gallows. Hardly any of the candidates mentioned it, but everyone recalled the execution of ex-Premier Adnan Menderes and two members of his government by General Gursel's military junta. Despite occasional arrests in the campaign weeks, the voting itself was calm and clean. Result: a sharp rebuff to the junta and the 17-month-old revolution...
...President Ismet Inonu's Republican People's Party, though favored by Gursel and most of the generals, won narrowly in the 450-seat National Assembly, but lost 2 to 1 in the race for 150 seats in the Senate. Biggest gains were scored by the newly formed Justice Party, which made a strong bid for Menderes supporters. The dead man, said the Istanbul newspaper Dunya, "mounted his white horse and toured the country from one end to the other...
Since no one party won a decisive majority, Gursel moved quickly in the political vacuum, announced his candidacy for the presidency of the Second Turkish Republic (the President is chosen by the newly elected Parliament). Gursel urged a national coalition of the four parties that contested the election, but the stability of such a combination, unprecedented in Turkish politics, was doubtful. The Justice Party, the Republican's chief rival, was anxious to remain an opposition group. Leaders of the New Turkey Party had split with Menderes & Co. even before the coup. And the small, reactionary Republican Peasant and Nation...
...known this week; probable victory for Republican and Gursel...