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Their President was unspectacular Celal Bayar, an able banker and one of Ataturk's ministers for five years, his Premier for one. This peaceful transfer of power was not the millennium, but it was the closest approach to it in the Middle East. Ataturk's 15 years of ruthless education and preparation had paid...
...Black Danger." The new regime put an end to excessive state regulation of business. Ataturk had tried to industrialize Turkey through a cumbersome form of state socialism that he labeled étatisme. He developed some industry, but stifled it in red tape and scared away foreign investors. Now, under Bayar, Turkey is one of the few nations in the world heading towards more, not less free enterprise. Foreign investors are encouraged. There have been other reversals of Ataturk policy. Many emancipated Turks now fear "the black danger," the resurgence of the once powerful mullahs. Religion is strong today in Turkey...
...word: "Zito!" (meaning "long live" in Greek) as King Paul and Queen Frederika debarked from the cruiser Helle. It was the first visit ever paid to Turkey by Greek monarchs. A gleaming white presidential train took the visitors off to Ankara for a station-side reception by President Celal Bayar and Premier Adnan Menderes. High point of the visit would come when the Greek monarchs placed a wreath on the tomb of Kemal Ataturk, the great Turkish strongman who had whipped their armies...
TURKEY (pop. 20,902,000): most progressive Moslem country, with constitutional government, compulsory schooling, woman suffrage. Head of state: President CELAL BAYAR, 67. Armed forces: 350,000 men, 22,000 officers, with a potential strength of 2,000,000; high on courage, low on equipment, planes, training...
...Faces. When President Bayar's government came to office, it swept out many of Turkey's most experienced public servants, replacing them with good, but inexperienced Democrats...