Word: inonu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hearing insistent rumors that the government will hold elections this fall to fill 21 vacant seats in the Grand National Assembly, Inonu decided to tour...
Aegean provinces. The Menderes government's attitude became clear at the start: on his departure from Ankara, police refused to let any of Inonu's supporters into the railway station. When he tried to speak from the train to a crowd of Republicans at Eskisehir, a city of 125,000, engine whistles blasted throughout his speech, and a freight train was backed onto the main line between Inonu and the crowd...
Reaching Usak, where he had scored his 1922 triumph, Inonu saw police scatter the welcoming crowd with tear gas, made his way with difficulty to the house of Republican Deputy Riza Salci. It was instantly surrounded by gendarmes, and during the night a fire started mysteriously and had to be put out by the Usak fire brigade. The next day, the local police chief announced that he had been suspended from duty because he refused to obey the provincial governor's order to shoot anyone who left Salci's house that night...
Pelting Bricks. By morning Usak was jammed with Democratic toughs rushed into the city by truck from neighboring towns. They rioted through the streets, beating up newsmen and breaking photographers' cameras. On his way to the, railroad station, Inonu found the street blocked by a solid wall of opposition Democratic toughs. He insisted on walking through them, and as he approached, Turkey's old hero shouted: "Aren't you ashamed?" The answer was a barrage of stones. Struck on the head, Inonu was knocked down but, struggling bloodily to his feet, grimly continued his march through...
...Inonu's train pulled out, bound for Izmir, it was pelted by bricks, and two reporters aboard were injured. The provincial governor at Izmir (Smyrna) canceled a ball scheduled in Inonu's honor, and two theaters that had been hired by Republicans for mass meetings were padlocked by the building inspector as "unsafe." Just in case Inonu had not vet taken the hint, Turkey's Interior Minister, Namik Gedik, went on the air at week's end, warned that there would be "further trouble" if the old soldier persisted in his tour...