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...hero, Premier and President, Ismet Inönü has occupied center stage in Turkish politics for more than half a century. He helped modern Turkey's founding father, Kemal Atatürk, win the country's battle for independence in 1923, and succeeded him as President in 1938. After 1950, when he was defeated for the presidency, Inönü continued to rule the Republican People's Party with an iron hand. Last week, at the age of 87, Turkey's elder statesman was finally forced into retirement...
...Turkish Prime Minister Nihat Erim was not terribly surprised last week when a message from President Cevdet Sunay was rushed to him at Ankara airport. Erim had just said goodbye to Soviet President Nikolai V. Podgorny, who flew home after a week of inconclusive negotiations over a proposed Soviet-Turkish friendship treaty. Ceremonies completed, Erim tore open the envelope to learn that he was being relieved as Prime Minister because of his "extreme fatigue...
...guerrilla groups, many of them composed of students or graduates from the universities. The guerrillas last year carried out a campaign of violence that culminated in the kidnap-murder of Israeli Consul General Ephraim Elrom. Terrorist Leader Mahir Cayan and a cadre of guerrillas from an organization called the Turkish People's Liberation Army were convicted of that crime and were in Istanbul's Maltepe Prison awaiting final sentencing. But they escaped four months ago, kidnaped three NATO radar experts serving at a Black Sea base, and took them to a remote mountain village. As army troops closed...
...murders of the NATO technicians set off a renewed army crackdown on dissent. Since then, 107 leftists have been arrested. Generals now hold key positions in the police, the state radio and television networks and the government-run airline. Some Turkish intellectuals feel that the military has been somewhat excessive in its zeal to preserve order. The army commander of Ankara, for instance, closed down a display of pictures of President Nixon's China visit, sponsored by the Turkish-American Association. Showings of two U.S. movie classics, Citizen Kane and The Grapes of Wrath, were halted because their themes...
...Tyranny. The Turkish generals and their complacent allies among the politicians insist that the situation in their country should not be compared with that of neighboring Greece, where the colonels rule. "There is no tyranny here, no dictatorship," insists ex-Prime Minister Demirel, who remains head of the Justice Party, which holds the largest number of seats in Parliament. "This is a free country." By and large, the 36 million Turks-the vast majority of them conservative, unsophisticated Moslem villagers-still support what one observer calls "democracy within the rules...