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...illegitimate child proved false; Menderes admitted readily that he had fathered the child in an illicit affair with an opera singer, but proved he had nothing to do with its death, which seemed to be of natural causes. Charges that Menderes threatened ex-President (and Republican Party leader) Ismet Inonu with assassination could not be substantiated...
With elections to take place no later than Oct. 29, and possibly as early as July, the likeliest prospect is a landslide for the Republicans of old (76) ex-President Ismet Inonu, heir of the late great Kemal Ataturk. In coffeehouses the Turks cheered the return to democracy, happily discussed the merits of the new and old parties over rose-scented glasses of raisin liquor. As Nasreddin Hodja, a popular medieval sage, once declared: "When God wishes to make a man happiest, he causes him to lose his donkey, then find it again...
...years, Gursel rounded up all 14 and packed them off as "advisers" to embassies abroad. "Some of them should have been shot." Gursel told a friend. "They are lucky I'm around." Still Edgy. Gursel s victory has been welcomed by Turkey's moderates. Ex-President Ismet Inonu, still leader at 76 of the old opposition Republican People's Party, told friends he was "delighted." But in the prevailing atmosphere of uncertainty, business is at a standstill, and hoarding is widespread (1,000-lira notes have virtually disappeared from circulation). Businessmen complain that government officials...
Apparently unworried, ex-President Ismet Inonu, whose Republican Party as things now stand should prove an easy election winner over Menderes' smashed Democratic organization, last week pronounced the revolution "legitimate." But some other Republican Party leaders were not so optimistic. Said one: "It is easier to make a revolution than to end it. Those who have made the revolution are bound to be fearful about what would happen if the Democrats came back to power." At week's end Minister of State Sefik Inan said he doubted that new elections could be held before October at the earliest...
...week's end, Gursel shipped Menderes and other top officials to an island in the Sea of Mamora for safekeeping, and declared that they might not be freed before the promised elections. His explanation: "A little rest might do Menderes and his party good." Meanwhile Ismet Inonu was hailed by cheering crowds wherever he went...