Word: kayseri
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CAPPADOCIA LIES IN the center of the Anatolian peninsula on a plateau bounded by Ankara, the Turkish capital, Kayseri, the one-time capital of Cappadocia, and Konya, home of the thirteenth century mystic Mevlani and his whirling dervishes. I came to Cappadocia by bus. The Turks probably have the best buses in the world--cheap, abundant, luxurious (plush seats, stewards, T.V., etc.). And fast, Perhaps too fast--Turkey has the highest per-vehicle accident rate in the world...
...Turkey's Kayseri State Prison a few weeks ago, inmates held an engagement party for two former Deputies who were among the 460 politicians jailed last year as supporters of executed Premier Adnan Menderes. Last week the engaged couple could look forward to a wedding ball without chains. Approved by the National Assembly was a long-delayed amnesty for all but 53 of the prisoners. Among those still behind bars: ex-President Celal Bayar, 78, serving a life sentence...
...officers had watched with growing uneasiness as Menderes cut down critics and harassed the opposition Republican Party headed by Ismet Inonu, ex-President and longtime comrade-in-arms of Ataturk himself. Two months ago, Menderes directed the army to stop Inonu from going on a political barnstorming trip to Kayseri. The major ordered to halt Inonu's train resigned in protest. Menderes' police promptly arrested the major, along with two other officers who resigned. General Gursel, then commander in chief of Turkey's ground forces, protested this use of troops for political purposes-and was summarily "retired...
...criticism and resents opposition. In recent months, under a repressive press law pushed through by his ruling Democrats, Menderes' government has jailed at least five newsmen, including the country's leading editor. When Inonu set out early this month for party meetings at the Anatolian cities of Kayseri and Yesilhisar, the government ordered army units to block his way. Last week Menderes' government proposed a parliamentary inquiry into the Republican Party's "subversive, illegitimate and illegal activities." The bill listed "charges" that the party was stirring up rebellion among the people, trying to involve the army...