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Last month, when Menderes proclaimed martial law and ordered troops to put down student demonstrations in Istanbul and Ankara, the army found itself forced to act against its own people. Police had killed at least a dozen students who were protesting the Premier's appointment of an all-Democratic committee with starchamber powers to investigate the "subversive" activities of the opposition Republicans. Officers of the middle rank-colonels, majors, captains-began planning active revolt. They first asked Inonu to be their leader. The old soldier refused...
Throughout the third straight week of martial law in Istanbul and Ankara, demonstrations burst out almost daily against Premier Adnan Menderes' government. They were not particularly large and nobody got killed, but their persistence argued that the ruling Democrats, triumphant in three elections since 1950, were slipping in popular esteem. Even President Celal Bayar was worried enough to urge Menderes to consider seeking peace with the opposition Republicans. But the Premier was still tough. Cried Menderes, in a speech at Izmir: "These street demonstrations of children will not make me resign." This week, to get the children...
Fundamental in Turkey's present test of strength is the attitude of the army, which has been notably restrained in enforcing martial law against the demonstrators. When the Premier returned to Ankara at week's end to welcome India's touring Nehru, police used tear gas to disperse 6,000 anti-Menderes demonstrators shouting: "Freedom!" On hand was an honor guard of military cadets. They began singing Ataturk's favorite old marching song, which demonstrators have been singing since the first riots flared in Istanbul last month. "Long live the Turkish army!" shouted the crowd. "Long...
After seven days of martial law, officials of Premier Adnan Menderes' government judged that the tension in Turkey was subsiding. Istanbul students who tried to stage new demonstrations against the ruling Democrats during the three-day NATO foreign ministers' meeting were thrown back by troops. The legislative "inquiry" into the opposition Republicans' "subversive and illegal" activities was already well under way in star-chamber secrecy. At midweek, students in Ankara began bandying about the rallying password "55 K" (translation: May 5 at 5 p.m. at Kizilay Square). The password reached the ears of the police...
...Menderes must resign!" they shouted. "Death to all dictators!" Along the way they spotted and wrecked the lucklessly named "Menderes Drugstore." Tanks and troops headed them off. By opening drawbridges, the authorities stopped another column from crossing the Golden Horn into the heart of the city. The government proclaimed martial law. All Istanbul's cafés, bars and nightclubs were closed. The university was shut down. The military governor banned any mention of the events in the press, and denied that anybody had been killed. But hospitals reported five dead and many wounded. That night Istanbul...