Word: inonu
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...fall in 1960, Premier Adnan Menderes made a practice of padlocking hostile Turkish newspapers, imprisoned journalists by the hundreds; police once threw a newsboy into jail for hawking a headline about a minister's resignation. At the time, the loudest protests came from wispy old Opposition Leader Ismet Inonu, who denounced "those who would seek to establish a coercive regime." But now that he is in power himself, Premier Inonu, 78, shows signs of falling into Menderes' old habits...
...Inonu's troubles came from a group of rebels led by Kasim Gulek, 57, a fiery Republican who has always spoken his mind no matter what the risk. An able economist who studied at Istanbul's U.S.-financed Robert College, Columbia University and the Sorbonne, Gulek shouted defiance at the late Premier Adnan Menderes when it was not at all healthy to do so, was arrested in 1956 for "insulting the National Assembly" in public speeches...
When the army took over, Gulek made no secret of his desire to be the next Republican Premier. Even after Inonu got the job last year, Gulek rose in party councils to declare that Inonu was too old and weak. "It is either me or him," Gulek told a Republican caucus...
Three weeks ago, Inonu struck back. Gulek and two other dissident leaders were summoned before the party's disciplinary committee and suspended for a year on charges that they had made damaging public political statements. But many party members thought the punishment was too severe. Last week, as 1,300 Republicans gathered in Ankara for their annual convention, 600 of the delegates signed a petition demanding that Gulek and the two others be reinstated...
...serious challenge to Inonu's leadership, but the wily Premier had a powerful reply. He told the rebel sympathizers that he would quit if their petition was approved. That would bring back the army dictatorship. In the showdown vote, only ten delegates dared to oppose Inonu, and some 150 abstained. The rest obviously agreed that Ismet Inonu was still indispensable...