Word: kemalism
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Deep Worry. Impatient with a trial in which their former leaders have been continually harassed, humiliated, cajoled and insulted, ex-Democrats are showing mounting defiance. Statues and pictures of Kemal Ataturk, the professed idol of both Gursel and Inonu, are defaced and disfigured regularly in provincial Democratic strongholds. Anonymous hate letters trickle in to members of the junta. And although the junta ostensibly ignores these signs, indications are that privately it is deeply worried. Thousands of ex-Democrats have been clapped in jail on the strength of mere denunciations, and only last week 161 were rounded up in an alleged...
...Kemel Ataturk (Mustafa Kemal), who presided over Turkey's transition from the center of the Ottoman Empire to a modern republic after World War I. His social, economic and religious reforms have been of lasting effect...
With elections to take place no later than Oct. 29, and possibly as early as July, the likeliest prospect is a landslide for the Republicans of old (76) ex-President Ismet Inonu, heir of the late great Kemal Ataturk. In coffeehouses the Turks cheered the return to democracy, happily discussed the merits of the new and old parties over rose-scented glasses of raisin liquor. As Nasreddin Hodja, a popular medieval sage, once declared: "When God wishes to make a man happiest, he causes him to lose his donkey, then find it again...
...military regime, the mass trial on Yassiada Island of hundreds of officials of the old civilian government seemed to be off to a shaky start. It was bad enough to begin with the trivial charge that ousted President Celal Bayar -onetime companion in arms to the late great Kemal Ataturk-had gypped the government in the sale of a shaggy dog. Last week the prosecution seemed intent on proving only that ex-Premier Adnan Menderes, married and the father of three sons, was indiscreetly fond of girls...
Doggy Details. First in the dock was ex-President Bayar, 77, still haggard from his suicide attempt last month. Bayar, onetime comrade-in-arms of the late great Kemal Ataturk, was charged with treason for ruling dictatorially in violation of the Turkish constitution. But the army regime was first anxious to destroy whatever prestige Bayar still has, and it began with an accusation astonishingly petty. On a state visit to Afghanistan, Bayar had received an Afghan hound as a present from the King. He brought it back to Turkey and put it into the Ankara zoo. Subsequently, says the prosecution...