Word: inonu
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...returned the country to civilian rule last October and sponsored parliamentary elections that made Gursel President, but failed to provide a stable majority to enact essential reforms. The result is a freakish two-party coalition government that joins the army-favored Republican People's Party of Premier Ismet Inonu with its archenemies, the political heirs of Menderes gathered in the Justice Party...
Other voices are being heard by wily Premier Ismet Inonu, 77, who, like such aging leaders as Adenauer and De Gaulle, seems to become more important to his nation as he grows older. More than anyone else, he manages to keep Turkey together. Almost deaf, Inonu spends long hours in Menderes' former office listening to reports shouted at him by aides, follows the interminable parliamentary debates over a special white loudspeaker at his desk. Last week he saved his coalition by a rare compromise. The Senate ratified a bill granting immunity from prosecution to the leaders of the abortive...
Wily ex-President Ismet Inonu, 77, became Premier, while ten other members of his Republican People's Party received Cabinet posts. To the Justice Party, political heirs of the late Democratic Premier Adnan Menderes-Inonu's archrival, who was executed by the junta last September-also went eleven portfolios, including the deputy premiership, important in view of Inonu...
...President Ismet Inonu's Republican People's Party, though favored by Gursel and most of the generals, won narrowly in the 450-seat National Assembly, but lost 2 to 1 in the race for 150 seats in the Senate. Biggest gains were scored by the newly formed Justice Party, which made a strong bid for Menderes supporters. The dead man, said the Istanbul newspaper Dunya, "mounted his white horse and toured the country from one end to the other...
Republican Peoples, led by ex-President Ismet Inonu, favored by Strongman Cemal Gursel: Justice, New Turkey, Republican Peasant, all trying to win followers of executed Premier Adnan Menderes...