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...will give him high marks for doing as much as he has to lessen his people's poverty, cure their diseases, school them and make a nation of them. It will recognize, too, that Nehru, like China's Sun Yat-sen and Turkey's Kemal Ataturk, has had a difficult and frustrating role to .play in bringing his people into democratic nationhood under tutelage. In these pursuits, Jawaharlal Nehru has his high place, even though he will not be an ally, and is not particularly a friend...
...developments seemed the more extraordinary in the light of Menderes' record. One of the heirs of Kemal Ataturk's great emancipation of modern Turkey, he was a moving spirit in Turkey's Democratic Party, which in 1950 succeeded Ataturk's Republican People's Party and brought a liberalization of many Ottoman customs that had survived the Ataturk period. He was one of the country's best orators, and his phrases (and ideas) in those days had a Jeffersonian ring. Said he (in 1946): "Governments that do their work well should have no reason...
Died. Makbule Atadan, 66, sister and last of the immediate family of the late Mustafa Kemal Ataturk ("Father of the Turks"); of cancer; at Gulhane Military Academy of Medicine; in Ankara...
Until last week the political heirs of Turkey's late great Kemal Ataturk-Republicans and Democrats alike-have maintained a tacit agreement to stick by their leader's founding dictum: in modern Turkey "state and religion must be separate." Then dapper, driving Premier Adnan Menderes, trying to whip up popular support to offset rising big-city discontent with his extravagant inflationary policies (TIME, Oct. 24), took off on a speech-making swing through his Anatolian farm-country strongholds. At Konya, in the wheat-growing heart of what Istanbul calls the Koran belt, he blurted out the most direct...
With no major organized opposition, the Democratic Party of Turkey's President Celal Bayar and Premier Adnan Menderes expected no difficulties at last week's municipal elections. The opposition Republicans, founded by the late great Kemal Ataturk, had boycotted the elections in advance, declaring: "We are attacked on radio, but not allowed to defend ourselves on radio. To answer accusations in the press constitutes an offense under the press law." But just to be sure of victory, Democrats in at least one district searched voters for anti-government literature, and had many bundled off to police stations...