Word: turkeys
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...Illiberal & Undemocratic." Turkish Prime Minister Adnan Menderes. who argues that Greek control of Cyprus would pose an intolerable threat to Turkey's security, found the Radcliffe constitution "logical material for negotiation" and Lennox-Boyd's partition talk "an interesting, attractive idea." Yet one high British official who should know insists that "partition could never work because . . . you would have to shift whole villages. There is no one area where Turks predominate." Greek Foreign Minister Evangelos Averoff denounced the British plan as "illiberal and undemocratic" and angrily pressed Greece's demand for a U.N. debate on self-determination...
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...desperate efforts to cover up its own mismanagement, the government of Turkey has curbed freedom of speech and press, has tried to suppress all channels of criticism. Last week it turned its guns on the nation's universities. Its immediate target: Turhan Feyzioglu. the brilliant young (34) dean of the faculty of political science at the University of Ankara...
Dean Feyzioglu's troubles began when he gently rebuked the government last month for blocking the promotion of a colleague who had founded a magazine critical of Turkey's economic plight. To Feyzioglu, the government's action against the professor was a serious blow "to the principle of university autonomy." In almost any other country such a remark might have gone unnoticed. But it was too much for Premier Adnan Menderes...
...announced that it would push through laws virtually abolishing the powers of the university senates and thus bring the universities under complete government control. The case of Dean Feyzioglu had proved to be something of a milestone: it marked the government's determination to end academic freedom in Turkey...