Word: yassiada
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Bayar himself was doing nothing to calm things; he publicly attacked the court at Yassiada that sentenced him to prison 18 months ago; tearfully, he embraced the son of the late Premier Adnan Menderes, Bayar's colleague who was sent to the gallows by the Yassiada tribunal...
...spite of Turkish censorship. Brought back from a near-fatal suicide attempt, the former Premier was hanged as soon as he was declared fit by prison doctors. Apologizing for the "trouble" he had caused his jailers, Menderes was taken aboard a Turkish navy gunboat from the island of Yassiada, where the eleven-month trial had been held, to the prison island of Imrali, where Polatkan and Zorlu had been hanged 36 hours before. Aboard the gunboat Menderes asked permission to make the namaz (ablutions and prayers), later did not remonstrate when told to put on a white smock...
Before mounting the makeshift gallows, Menderes had turned to Altay Egesel, chief prosecutor at the Yassiada trial, and said: "Please tell my son never to mix in politics. When one is in politics one cannot control his destiny." Last week Yuksel Menderes, 31, who had announced his intention of running for deputy on the New Turkey Party ticket in Aydin, his father's birthplace, withdrew his candidacy for "personal reasons...
...eleven months, when Turks referred to "The Island," it was understood that they meant Yassiada island, off Istanbul, where former Premier Adnan Menderes, ex-President Celal Bayar and 588 lesser functionaries were on trial, some of them for their lives. Last week the long proceedings on The Island were over, and the end was grim...
From the outset, the Yassiada trials went badly. Early prosecution charges that old ex-President Celal Bayar, 77,, sold a state-owned Afghan hound for personal gain did not stand up. An accusation that ex-Premier Menderes had arranged for the murder of his illegitimate child proved false; Menderes admitted readily that he had fathered the child in an illicit affair with an opera singer, but proved he had nothing to do with its death, which seemed to be of natural causes. Charges that Menderes threatened ex-President (and Republican Party leader) Ismet Inonu with assassination could not be substantiated...