Word: inonu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Call for Liberty. Early in 1945, with Ataturk seven years dead and soldierly Ismet Inonu ruling Turkey in his place, Menderes abruptly ended his long obscurity. Boldly moving front and center, Menderes joined Banker-Statesman Celal Bayar and two other Deputies in presenting a resolution demanding that the government at long last put into effect the democratic liberties promised by the Turkish constitution. Soon the four rebels launched their own Democratic Party-the first genuine opposition party to be allowed by the ruling Republicans since Kemal Ataturk put Turkey on the road to democracy...
...smallest villages for votes, developed a highly effective way with a crowd. He promised civil liberties, an end to economic restrictions, free enterprise instead of the state-directed economy favored by Ataturk and his heirs. In 1950, in the scrupulously honest election insisted upon by aging President Ismet Inonu, the Democrats rode into power on a surprising landslide, winning 408 Assembly seats to the Republicans' 69. Celal Bayar, the elder statesman of the Democratic Party, replaced Inonu as President. Adnan Menderes became Premier of Turkey...
Secure in this conviction, he ignores the thrusts of the opposition Republicans, now led by ex-President Ismet Inonu. They charge that Menderes' development has been by impulse rather than plan, point to factories set up where there are no facilities to bring in the coal to fuel them, to a sugar refinery that closed within two weeks of its opening because no. sugar beets were grown in the area. Even more bitterly, they accused him of using development funds as a bottomless pork barrel with which to woo the peasant vote-a charge at least partly borne...
...bitterness of their third straight election defeat, Turkey's Republicans erupted with cries of "Fraud." Ex-President Ismet Inonu's party had quintupled its strength, won in a third of Turkey's provinces. But Premier Adnan Menderes' Democrats still held a better-than-2-to-1 margin, with 424 seats to 178 for the Republicans. Angrily the Republicans accused Menderes of "stealing" the election by scratching opposition voters' names from the rolls...
...government refused to release the popular vote totals, which, according to unofficial counts, gave the opposition 51.6% of the vote. "Serious illegalities in the elections have destroyed peace among our citizens," cried the 73-year-old Inonu, who had inherited the mantle of power from the late Kemal Ataturk, only to lose to the Democrats' Menderes in 1950. The Republicans ignored the fact that it was they who had set up the system by which a party with a minority of popular votes could win a sizable majority in the Assembly...