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...reformers also are having second thoughts about how to proceed in bringing ex-Premier Menderes, ex-President Celal Bayar and more than 400 other arrested Democratic leaders to trial for corruption. The army reformers are increasingly aware that vindictive, Castro-style blood-letting would only hurt Turkey's world standing, are considerably less bloodthirsty than the press or public in demanding punishment of the old regime. "If the army had wanted to kill all those men," said a Turk appointed to one of the 15 (out of 19) interim ministries assigned to civilians, "it could easily have killed them...
...army, navy and air units, backed by tanks, held all key points. In all Turkey only one man was killed-an army lieutenant who was shot when an excited cop pulled a gun as the officer entered an Ankara post office. Officers found President Celal Bayar (who recently told a Western diplomat: "We are going to crush opposition") at his palace. Bayar flourished a pistol and his daughter threw a kitchen knife at the officers before they could hustle him off to "protective custody" in the War College barracks in Ankara. The Justice Minister was yanked from an automobile luggage...
...martial law in Istanbul and Ankara, demonstrations burst out almost daily against Premier Adnan Menderes' government. They were not particularly large and nobody got killed, but their persistence argued that the ruling Democrats, triumphant in three elections since 1950, were slipping in popular esteem. Even President Celal Bayar was worried enough to urge Menderes to consider seeking peace with the opposition Republicans. But the Premier was still tough. Cried Menderes, in a speech at Izmir: "These street demonstrations of children will not make me resign." This week, to get the children off the streets, he ordered all colleges...
...clock, some 60 pro-Menderes demonstrators were on hand in Kizilay Square. Troops arrived and set up a cordon. At 5:40, two limousines carrying Menderes and President Celal Bayar drove up. With a confident smile Menderes jumped out to shake hands. But within seconds, several hundred anti-Menderes students moved in. The carefully planned counter-demonstration was suddenly swamped in a booing crowd...
Shirttails flapping, the white-faced Premier dogtrotted into the square with his aides at his heels. In the square Menderes found old President Bayar waiting in his Cadillac. The two embraced. There were tears in Menderes' eyes. Friends pushed the Premier into a newsman's Volkswagen, and the little car inched forward to a point where some 100 of Menderes' Democratic partisans were gathered. But when the Premier climbed out, students rushed up to shout "Freedom!" Menderes gave up. Climbing into a third car, he rode away to the presidential palace and the end of the wildest...