Word: koprulu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week Turkey's new revolutionary rulers acknowledged that Greek suspicions had been right all along-the whole thing had been planned. The tip-off came with the arrest of Turkey's former Vice Premier and Foreign Minister, Mehmet Fuat Koprulu, 69, a respected professor and one of the founding members of the Democratic Party. Koprulu's part had been apparently minor. The chief culprits, said the Turkish government, were already in custody-President Celal Bayar, Premier Adnan Menderes, and ex-Foreign Minister Fatin Zorlu. This is the story as told by a : spokesman for Turkey...
...subsequent weeks the Menderes regime continued to blame the Greeks for the bomb in Salonica, the Communists for the riots in Istanbul. Koprulu's only part in the affair was to defend the government's action during debates in the National Assembly, though privately he had been critical...
When police came to arrest him last week, unruffled Professor Koprulu said: "I have absolute faith in the justice of the supreme revolutionary court and am confident the guilt of the real culprits will be established." Then he joined the other 537 political prisoners in the island jail of Yassiada...