Word: istanbul
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...students' revolt was Menderes' latest move: a bill granting almost dictatorial powers to a special commission (TIME, May 2) designed to investigate the "subversive, illegitimate" activities of the Republican opposition party. Gathering round a statue of the late great Ataturk at the university gate, 1.500 students at Istanbul University began shouting "Hurriyet!" ("Freedom"'), and singing Ataturk's famed song of victory...
Cutting the Bridges. The cops began shooting in earnest, and some 20 students dropped. One student column surged toward Menderes' Istanbul headquarters. "Menderes must resign!" they shouted. "Death to all dictators!" Along the way they spotted and wrecked the lucklessly named "Menderes Drugstore." Tanks and troops headed them off. By opening drawbridges, the authorities stopped another column from crossing the Golden Horn into the heart of the city. The government proclaimed martial law. All Istanbul's cafés, bars and nightclubs were closed. The university was shut down. The military governor banned any mention of the events...
Next day Ankara students took to the streets. Four thousand strong, they massed outside their university buildings, shouting "Freedom!" and "Down with all dictators!" At the law school, guns cracked, and eight ambulances screamed off with injured students. Students also rioted at Izmir. In Istanbul a crowd of about 15,000 collected in Beyazit Square, but the crowd seemed more interested in watching the students than in joining them in their protest. Troops were able to break up the demonstration by deliberately marching and countermarching until they had pushed everybody out of the square...
...begin in Paris on May 16, with President Eisenhower, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and President Charles de Gaulle facing Premier Nikita Khrushchev. Other way stations still lay ahead-De Gaulle's eight-day visit to the U.S., beginning this week, and another foreign ministers' meeting in Istanbul on May 1-but essentially, the position that the West would take to the summit had been settled...
...consider it a fit end to a life of idealistic struggle, for I have still not lost a particle of hope regarding the future of Turkey." At week's end, his health failing but his will still unbowed, old Ahmed Emin Yalman was moved from prison to an Istanbul hospital with a heart ailment...