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When Turkey's Premier Ismet Inonu finally let his old enemy ex-President Celal Bayar out of jail for medical treatment fortnight ago, he figured the least he should get was a little gratitude from the opposition Justice Party. Instead, Bayar's noisy supporters turned the occasion into a week-long political demonstration against the government...
...jailed last year as supporters of executed Premier Adnan Menderes. Last week the engaged couple could look forward to a wedding ball without chains. Approved by the National Assembly was a long-delayed amnesty for all but 53 of the prisoners. Among those still behind bars: ex-President Celal Bayar, 78, serving a life sentence...
...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...
Last week, while jet planes roared low overhead, the verdict was announced: death to Menderes, Bayar, two former Ministers and eleven other former government officials...
Unvindicated morally, facing a growing though still underground challenge, the junta is in a quandary. Its members are committed by Cemal Gursel's word to hold free elections by October at the latest. But if they hang Menderes and Bayar, how will the predictably sharpened rancor among Democrats weigh in the election? Cynics suggest that the junta should have shot Menderes and Bayar as soon as they got their hands on them. Sighed an Istanbul businessman: "The greatest error was attempting to carry out the trials in a legal...