Word: izmir
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...million, a foreign debt of $1.3 billion. To avoid bankruptcy, Gursel has canceled half of the 1,314 ambitious public works projects planned or under way in the Menderes era and has postponed work on acres of city rebuilding, including construction of fancy opera houses in Istanbul and Izmir...
...Herd. On the morning of the revolution, General Gursel was fetched by military jet from his Izmir home. By 9:30 a.m., he was sitting at Menderes' desk in Ankara, proclaiming himself provisional head of government and the armed forces. "I tried to reason with the politicians, but they were blinded by ambition. We had to act," he told the nation in a radio broadcast. "They ignored my advice. They thought the Turkish nation was a senseless herd." He added: "I have no intention, I repeat, no intention whatever of being a dictator.'' The whole purpose...
...College in 1929. he got his first star in 1946, his fourth in 1957. A devout believer in Ataturk's dictum that the army must be beyond politics, he shunned publicity, spent most of his spare time with his wife and son, now a com mission broker in Izmir. As a result, he remained almost unknown to the Turkish public until last week...
...their persistence argued that the ruling Democrats, triumphant in three elections since 1950, were slipping in popular esteem. Even President Celal Bayar was worried enough to urge Menderes to consider seeking peace with the opposition Republicans. But the Premier was still tough. Cried Menderes, in a speech at Izmir: "These street demonstrations of children will not make me resign." This week, to get the children off the streets, he ordered all colleges and universities in Ankara and Istanbul closed till fall...
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...