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...were these so eminent statesmen hanged? Their death sentences declared them participants in the alleged plot to assassinate President Mustafa Kemal Pasha-as a result of which 13 suspects had already been executed (TIME, July 26). But this surprising total of 17 hangings can find no justification in a, "plot" which, if it ever existed, was never brought to the point of endangering Mustafa Kemal's life...
...were jerked into eternity, after farcical legal proceedings, because they were suspected of attempting to form a new party in opposition to President Kemal. He, knowing well the mettle of these opponents who had successfully overthrown "Abdul the Damned," resorted to the only sure curb for Turkish intrigants-the noose...
Paradoxically Dictator-President Kemal rose to fame and power as a general in the Young Turk armies, a subordinate of the men hanged by his orders last week. Not until General Kemal Pasha proved himself the ablest Turkish World War commander was he able to rally a Turkish Nationalist following from within the Young Turk movement and to organize this clique into the present Kemal-dominated Turkish dictature...
...Young Turk Old Guard have never sympathized with President Kemal's dictatorial Europeanization of Turkey, have fought him tooth and nail by stealth. He, ruthless, has meted out no more and no less severe punishment to his enemies than they inflicted upon theirs in the days of Young Turk supremacy. President Kemal, though "Europeanized," has still the attributes of the "typical terrible Turk...
Died. Kara Kemal, onetime member of the Young Turk Committee of Union and Progress, sentenced to death as ringleader of the recent plot to assassinate President Mustapha Kemal Pasha of Turkey (TIME, July 26, TURKEY) ; in Stamboul (Constantinople), after shooting himself when a group of policemen surrounded and sought to arrest...