Word: kayseri
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...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...