Word: istanbul
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Istanbul Democratic leaders were responsible for financial hanky-panky while expropriating choice Istanbul real estate under a Menderes scheme to modernize the ancient city. Faithful Democratic Party supporters were handsomely compensated for their expropriated properties, while Republicans were shortchanged. Still to be proved: that Menderes was personally culpable...
...Democratic Party leaders actively fomented the disastrous 1955 anti-Greek riots in Istanbul, in which 4,000 Greek-owned stores were sacked and burned, three Greeks killed. But all that the prosecution could prove against Menderes personally was that he had ordered up a vigorous but nonviolent demonstration against the local Greeks as a protest against Greek demands in Cyprus. Against proud and unbending ex-President Bayar, nothing at all was proved...
...nothing in the evidence seemed to justify the death penalty that State Prosecutor Altay Egesel so frequently demanded for both Menderes and Bayar. (So far, death has been demanded for Bayar on four separate counts, for Menderes on seven, including the comparatively trivial Istanbul expropriations case.) In the eyes of many, the circus-like atmosphere of the trials demeaned such points as the prosecution was able to make. Sharp sallies against Menderes & Co. by Prosecutor Egesel and the presiding judge are applauded by a courtroom claque, responses by the defendants jeered...
Earlier, with knapsack on his back and a sketching pad in his pocket, he had traveled to Prague, through Serbia and Rumania, to Istanbul and Athens. He spent six weeks examining the Acropolis, and in his autobiography, in which he grandly refers to himself in the third person, he told what those six weeks meant. "The columns are still lying on the ground. Touching them with his fingers, caressing them, he grasps the proportions of the design. Amazement! Reality has nothing to do with books of instructions. Here everything was a shout of inspiration, a dance in the sunlight. Such...
Before long, 22 of the coffin snatchers were securely locked up in Istanbul. The incident served as a reminder that Menderes, though currently on trial for his life, and his Democratic Party, though officially banned, still have a following. Gursel's junta, after nine months in power and nearly as many months of hesitation, recently gave all political parties except Communists and Menderes' Democrats the go-ahead to operate freely once again. Eleven new parties materialized, including one made up wholly of army officers forcibly retired by the junta. The scramble for the Democrats' onetime...