Word: nihat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the Ankara Court of Appeals upheld jail sentences for five more newsmen, including Managing Editor Nihat Subasi of the daily Ankara Ulus, official organ of the opposition Republican People's Party, and Managing Editor Tarik Halulu of the weekly newsmagazine Akis. Since the first press-gag law was passed in 1954, a score of newsmen have been imprisoned for crimes ranging from criticism of Menderes' financial policies to the suggestion that the Premier married for money. What is more, Menderes has suspended publication of Akis, has even dared to close down Ulus, the newspaper founded...