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...Turkish President Cemal Gursel beamed with pride as he roared away from Ankara's new Parliament building in the first auto ever made in Turkey, a four-cylinder, 60-h.p. job, with a chauffeur at the wheel. A scant 100 yards later, General Gursel's smile froze as the auto coughed and died. "We made this car with the Western part of our minds," he berated the chauffeur, "but with the Oriental part we forgot to put gasoline in it." So saying, General Gursel stepped into a fully gassed Detroit job, purred...
...Turkish elections three weeks ago, no party won a clear mandate, but the Republicans, favored by the armed forces and by General Cemal Gursel's junta, suffered a setback while the Justice Party, drawing supporters of executed Premier Adnan Menderes, showed considerable strength. In the wake of these results, as the parties maneuvered to form a new government, the country's top military brass* gathered ominously in Ankara. Out to the politicians went an invitation as crisp as a parade-ground command: form a coalition government of all major parties, with Gursel as President, or face a military...
...been laid; Turkey once again has an elected government, but the threat of another military regime toppling the government remains, and the country's long-deferred hope of stable democracy is still far from assured. President Gursel himself gave oblique recognition to these facts of current Turkish political life. Said he: "Our Second Republic even now is on trial...
Since no one party won a decisive majority, Gursel moved quickly in the political vacuum, announced his candidacy for the presidency of the Second Turkish Republic (the President is chosen by the newly elected Parliament). Gursel urged a national coalition of the four parties that contested the election, but the stability of such a combination, unprecedented in Turkish politics, was doubtful. The Justice Party, the Republican's chief rival, was anxious to remain an opposition group. Leaders of the New Turkey Party had split with Menderes & Co. even before the coup. And the small, reactionary Republican Peasant and Nation...
King of Kings (Samuel Bronston; M-G-M). Christianity, which has survived the Turkish onslaught and the Communist conspiracy, may even survive this picture; but individual Christians who try to sit through it may find themselves longing for extreme unction...