Word: hurriyet
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...reporting details of the Assembly session. This was intended, said a spokesman, to have "a calming effect." But as old Ismet Inonu left the Anatolia Club that afternoon to walk 400 yards to Ankara's Ish Bank, a crowd of 5.000 formed quickly around him. They shouted "Hurriyet [Freedom]" and began singing the famed marching song that Turks sang at Samsun in 1919 when the late great Ataturk landed to launch the fight for an independent Turkish republic. But not for long. Truckloads of police rolled up and arrested 22 of the demonstrators...
...aging hero rolled past, many an army officer respectfully sprang to attention.) At Sultan Ahmet Square, site of the hippodrome where Byzantine mobs once fought out their political differences, a crowd of 7,000 broke through police lines to cheer Inonu with cries of "Hurriyet!" (Freedom). Police tried tear gas, only to have their grenades thrown back at them by foresighted demonstrators who came equipped with gloves. Undeterred by all the fighting, Inonu moved on to Ankara...