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...things go right," said strapping General Cemal Gursel, soon after the Turkish army seized power fortnight ago, "we hope to finish all this in a month. If we run into difficulties it might take three months." Last week, like many a military man before him, General Gursel was learning that ruling a nation is never that simple...
Second Roundup. In the first hours after the almost bloodless overthrow of former Premier Adnan Menderes, the task of putting the Turkish Republic back on the democratic track seemed as straightforward as taking a hilltop. The army was solidly behind Gursel and his "National Union Committee" of generals, colonels and junior officers; the people had welcomed them with joy; their enemies were in their hands. Moderation was the order of the day. Leaders of Menderes' Democratic Party were released almost as fast as they were arrested; at the start of the week only 150 were in custody. General Gursel...
...Armenian Orthodox, Coptic, Roman Catholic, Abyssinian- all of them so caught up in denominational jealousies that they cannot agree on repairs or on anything else. They hold their services in spaces as carefully marked as those in a parking lot, and about as large (the areas were frozen by Turkish Sultan Abdul Majid shortly before the Crimean War). The Syrian Orthodox, for example, may worship only in an area extending from the middle of the seventh pillar of the rotunda to a spot marked by a black cross on the right of the ninth column...
...politicians in defense of personal liberties. "I warned them," he declared in his first post-revolutionary speech last wreek, "that they could save themselves only if they followed several steps I pointed out to them." Instead, some months ago. Gursel received orders retiring him as commander of Turkish ground forces before normal retirement age. The general promptly tore the orders up and returned the pieces to the defense ministry. But three wreeks ago, with retirement age upon him, Gursel went on "terminal leave...
Died. Saro Melikian (born Solomon Teilirian), 63, Armenian hero acquitted in a sensational 1921 German trial despite his confession that he had assassinated Talaat Pasha, World War I Turkish Grand Vizier (who introduced genocide to the 20th century by ordering the massacre of 500,000 Armenians); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in San Francisco, where he was employed as an office clerk. Said Melikian to German police after his arrest: "It is not I who am the murderer; it is Talaat. I have lived only to revenge...