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Since last May when the Democrats (led by Celál Bayar) upset the old Republican People's Party (TIME, May 22), strange things have happened to the Turks. This week U.S. Air Secretary Thomas K. Finletter and aides dropped in for a quick look. He would find a country of energy and action, of democratic ferment and confusion...
...invective, Democrats charge Republicans were corrupt, and Republicans torment Democrats for unfulfilled election promises. The partisan press, now free as the wind off the Taurus mountains, got so abusive toward ex-President Ismet Inönü that he refused to go to a diplomatic party given by President Bayar last month...
...Celal Bayar did not want to be President of Turkey. He preferred to stay offstage as boss of the Democratic Party which overthrew the long-entrenched People's Party in Turkey's first honest elections two weeks ago. But this week when the new National Assembly met for the first time, its strong Democratic majority overruled 67-year-old Celal Bayar and elected him President. Bayar, an advocate of less government interference with business, chose as Premier Adnan Menderes, a wealthy landowner of Aydin...
...Democrats, headed by Banker-Politician Celal Bayar, had promised to free the Turkish economy from government control. This promise had won for them the support of Istanbul and Smyrna businessmen...
...seats. Likeliest candidate to replace Inönü as President was Halil Ozyoruk, the judge who led in the framing of the "honest election law." (Under Turkish law a President's term ends when his party loses its majority in the Assembly.) Democratic Boss Bayar, however, had become Turkey's new top political figure...