Word: izmir
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Greek Foreign Minister to London. But the British also invited Turkey. The conference broke up in bitterness. A bomb exploded in the Turkish consulate at Salonika (Greece); in retaliation Turks erupted in savage riots against Greek minorities in Istanbul, Izmir and Ankara. By now Greeks were thoroughly aroused against both their NATO partners, Britain and Turkey; they got mad at the U.S. as well when the State Department ineptly expressed equal concern to both Turkey and Greece...
Assigned Duties. In Izmir, Turkey, asked by the judge while on trial for committing six burglaries if he really had a record of 50 previous offenses, Suleyman Senaylar replied: "My profession is to steal; keeping count is the job of the police. That is what we pay them...
Inflation and the lopsided boom have bred many millionaires. But Turkey's trouble has mostly bred deep discontent. It boiled viciously to the surface last month in the Istanbul and Izmir riots. They began, ironically, in what was almost certainly a government-inspired plan for demonstrations against Greece's claims to Cyprus (TIME, Oct. 3). But before the nasty surge was checked, it had swept beyond minorities, to strike at many Turks as well-a raging protest against high prices, low wages, and the sight of luxury in its midst. Trying to call off a mob from burning...
Thirty years of Turkish politics have calloused any soft spots in Menderes' disposition. Born to cotton-planting wealth (in a family that took its name from the River Meander of classic fame), he studied at the American College in Izmir, took a law degree but has never practiced. Menderes dislikes criticism-none of his original Cabinet has survived in the same office. "Anybody who shows any spirit goes out," says a British observer. Because 90 Democratic Deputies showed enough spirit to object to his quick decree of martial law after the riots, Menderes last week fired one of their...
...Scene I. Tempers simmered on all sides-in Turkey, in Greece and on Cyprus. A small bomb exploded in the Turkish consulate in Salonika and triggered wholesale riots against Greek minorities in Istanbul, Izmir and Ankara (TIME, Sept. 19). At first, under martial law and strict censorship, much of the story of the riots' nature was suppressed by the government of Turkish Premier Adnan Menderes, who has a supposedly democratic regime but cracks down on free speech and free press with totalitarian ease. But by last week, from piecemeal reports, diplomatic dispatches and the tales of travelers from Turkey...