Word: inonu
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...instead of joining in the parliamentary free-for-all, grey, old (72) Republican Ismet Inonu, Turkey's respected World War II President who was so spectacularly overturned by Menderes' Democrats in the 1950 elections, rose from his third-row Opposition bench to say: "I appreciate the pressure on the government to pass this budget. I am prepared to help, provided I have a promise to open a debate on the problems of the political regime." To start with, gruffed the old pasha, let the government reconstitute the little province of Kirsehir, which it split up three years...
...Pasha." That afternoon Menderes, who for years has suggested that Inonu is little better than a superannuated blunderer, rose at his front desk to praise "my pasha" as "a statesman who holds an assured place in history as one of Turkey's greatest men." Then he said: "The government is willing to consider all the issues presented by the Opposition if they are presented in moderate ways...
...country's desperate plight and the government's shortcomings in coping with it have been reported fully in opposition (Republican) and independent newspapers in Istanbul and Ankara, which vigorously protested the gag. Warned Opposition Leader General Ismet Inonu, former Turkish President: "We are going toward totalitarianism." The only hope was that Turkey's newspapers, which boldly and cleverly evaded a less repressive press law of 1954, might find ways to make the new restrictions unenforceable...
...Turkey, the government used martial law in Istanbul and Ankara to close five of the nation's biggest newspapers-one indefinitely, four for two weeks. Chief reason: most of them had printed a request from ex-President Ismet Inonu for a parliamentary investigation into the government's handling of the destructive riots against Turkey's Greek minority {see FOREIGN NEWS...
Last week, the opposition Republicans angrily struck back. Totting up the results of recent local elections, they discovered that in four years their strength had been cut from 35% of the elected mukhtars (village headmen) to 17%. Ismet Inonu, leader of the opposition Republicans (and onetime President of Turkey, succeeding the late great Kemal Ataturk) took to the Assembly floor to accuse the government of intimidation at the polls. Premier Adnan Menderes lost his usual sangfroid. Inonu was a "liar," he cried, who "spoke with the coldbloodedness of a professional criminal." He added, staring at Inonu, "God will deal with...