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...Sevim Tari is a young (28), pretty Turkish girl of good family. What makes her unusual in Turkey is that she is also a Communist. Daughter of a high-ranking Turkish police official now dead, she studied medicine in Turkey, attended the Sorbonne in Paris. Two years ago she got out of a taxi on Istanbul's waterfront and was about to board ship for Marseille when the political police grabbed her. On her person the cops found three monthly reports of clandestine Communist operations (Communism has long been barred in Russia-hating Turkey) and other incriminating documents. Sevim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Like Nightingales | 10/26/1953 | See Source »

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