Word: inonu
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...handed rule. But many Turks wondered whether the death penalty was justified for this offense and for the grab bag of other charges raised against Menderes and his fellow defendants in court. Among the charges: inciting anti-Greek riots in 1955, threatening the life of former Turkish President Ismet Inonu, organizing a riot to destroy a newspaper, profiting from the sale of a dog received as a gift from the King of Afghanistan...
...sentences could be reversed by General Gursel's junta, and there was considerable pressure for reversal. The U.S. and British embassies told the Turkish Foreign Affairs Ministry that they feared serious repercussions if the death sentences were carried out; Indian Ambassador J. K. Atal called on ex-President Inonu, leader of the Republican Party, asking him to intervene and throw his considerable weight behind a bid for clemency. Inonu refused to interfere. As for the junta, a spokesman had stated before the verdict: "We aren't concerned about foreign opinion." But Gursel obviously cared for the thoughts...
Besides the constitutional issue, the referendum was widely accepted as a test of strength for ex-President Ismet Inonu's Republican Party. The new constitution won, but not by a landslide. Surprisingly, almost 4,000,000 voted...
...Menderes and other top Democrats ordered harassment of opposition Republican Party politicians. Item: a crowd of Democratic Party followers was ordered by Menderes to demonstrate against Inonu in May 1959, overzealously pelted Inonu's car with stones and beat on it with sticks. Item: on Menderes' order, the army harassed Inonu on a political stumping tour in Anatolia, held up his train for three hours, turned him away from a village he was attempting to visit. Item: Democratic Party goons in the Anatolian towns of Canakkale and Geyikli bullied, attacked and injured Republican politicians, though not provably...
Deep Worry. Impatient with a trial in which their former leaders have been continually harassed, humiliated, cajoled and insulted, ex-Democrats are showing mounting defiance. Statues and pictures of Kemal Ataturk, the professed idol of both Gursel and Inonu, are defaced and disfigured regularly in provincial Democratic strongholds. Anonymous hate letters trickle in to members of the junta. And although the junta ostensibly ignores these signs, indications are that privately it is deeply worried. Thousands of ex-Democrats have been clapped in jail on the strength of mere denunciations, and only last week 161 were rounded up in an alleged...