Word: istanbul
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...live attitude, Premier Gursel declared sternly: "Former ministers will have to account for their deeds." Once more jeeps rolled through Ankara making mass arrests. By midweek 403 out of 406 Democratic Deputies were in jail, most of them on Yassiada Island, eleven miles out to sea from Istanbul...
...coup was a total surprise. Despite four weeks of sporadic anti-Menderes demonstrations by students and cadets in Ankara and Istanbul, few had suspected that the ebullient Premier was really in jeopardy. His party commanded an almost 3-to-1 majority in the Assembly, and outside the sophisticated urban centers, his popularity among the peasant population remained high. Until the radio blared its stunning news, many Turks had never even heard of General Cemal Gursel, the longtime professional soldier who led the revolt...
Last month, when Menderes proclaimed martial law and ordered troops to put down student demonstrations in Istanbul and Ankara, the army found itself forced to act against its own people. Police had killed at least a dozen students who were protesting the Premier's appointment of an all-Democratic committee with starchamber powers to investigate the "subversive" activities of the opposition Republicans. Officers of the middle rank-colonels, majors, captains-began planning active revolt. They first asked Inonu to be their leader. The old soldier refused...
...Start. Few army coups have ever been more popular. In Istanbul people hung out flags, danced in the streets and yelled: "Freedom, freedom!'' Cheering throngs in Ankara hoisted soldiers, sailors, airmen on their shoulders. The army, most Turks felt, had snatched the country from the hands of the privileged few in power and restored it to the people...
...newspapers to start publishing again. Ahmet Emin Yalman, dean of Turkish journalism, published his first art:'c':e since his release from prison last month: "The Turkish armed forces are marching forward with giant steps on the road opened by Ataturk." General Gursel fetched seven professors from Istanbul to help draft a provisional constitution. One was Istanbul University President Siddik Sami Onar, who was badly beaten by Menderes' police when he protested their rough treatment of student demonstrators last month...