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...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...
...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...
...furor that began four months ago when four U.S. sergeants stationed at Izmir were arrested on charges of currency black-marketing, and two in turn accused Turkish cops of torturing them (TIME, Aug. 24 et seq.), drags on in the slow-moving Turkish courts. While the State Department, in deference to its NATO partner, tried to hush up the whole affair, NATO Supreme Commander Lauris Norstad dispatched from Paris a personal investigating team headed by Major General Joseph Carroll, a onetime top FBIman, who was commissioned an Air Force Reserve colonel in 1948 to do police work. Carroll...
...whether any were guilty of misdeeds or merely of failure to exercise sufficient responsibility. Several of the officers complain that the opposition Turkish press, which is currently on an anti-American kick, has played the story as if all were culprits. Among the 13 officers reassigned are five Izmir unit commanders and four finance officers; among the ten sergeants was the personal secretary of NATO's Izmir commander, Lieut. General Paul Harkins...