Word: inonu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Republicans were led by their old hero, Ismet Inonu, 73, World War II President and chosen successor of the late great Kemal Ataturk himself. They charged that Menderes' reckless extravagance had only created economic chaos, that foreigners now refuse to ship Turkey even vital medicines without cash on the barrelhead, that the only thing Turkey has plenty of is yok (nothing). They complained that Menderes had suppressed freedom of the press, packed the courts to rubber-stamp his decisions, and altered the election code to keep opposition parties from forming coalition slates. Yet the windup rallies in Istanbul were...
...point those who might be willing to forgive Menderes for rushing the economy ahead too fast were less willing to forgive his rushing Turkey's democracy backward so quickly. Democracy came to modern Turkey during the long, enlightened dictatorship of Kemal Ataturk (1923-38); his chosen successor, Ismet Inonu, was beaten at the polls in 1950, and obeying the popular mandate, turned over power to the Democrats. Last week Republican Inonu, a frail but forthright 72, waved Turkey's bill of rights before the assembly and charged that the Menderes government had trampled on freedom, suppressed the press...
...Committee blandly concluded that Hodja Boyar "spoke in a moment of religious ecstasy and should be forgiven," and it seemed foregone that the entire Assembly would next agree. But when the motion reached the floor, it ran into eloquent and unyielding opposition from 72-year-old ex-President Ismet Inonu, Ataturk's successor and now leader of the opposition Republican People's Party. He invoked a strong feeling: though Turkey remains a Moslem country, a whole generation of Turks has been brought up to believe that progress and democracy became possible only after Ataturk abolished the fez, separated...
Retreat. When Ismet Inonu speaks, even autocratic Adnan Menderes listens. And this time Inonu had the backing of President Celal Bayar, who for all his loyalty to the Democratic Party of Menderes, went out of his way to tell students at Turkey's Air Force Academy last week: "We must never give reaction a chance to return to Turkey." Within 24 hours after President Bayar spoke, Turkey's legislators by an almost unanimous vote refused to pardon Hodja Boyar. For all Turks who believe in separation of church and state, it was a sweet victory, except...
Menderes immediately introduced a bill restoring the lost province. Then his budget sailed through-opposed by Inonu's followers, but with such decorum and restraint as the Assembly had not witnessed in years. Last week, at a party congress in Izmir, Inonu saluted Menderes' pledge as "the beginning of a new political era in Turkey." Inonu set out politely but firmly the terms on which the party of the late great Kemal Ataturk would back "Mr. Menderes' announced policy of political peace": 1) removal of political pressure on the courts; 2) freeing of the press from restrictive...