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...twelve years, and was regarded by his enemies as a vengeful and haughty dictator. In 19461-eight years after Ataturk's death-the people voted for the first time, and returned Inonu's Republicans by a landslide. The Democrats, led by another Ataturk lieutenant, Banker Celal Bayar, charged that they had been jobbed. In 1950 the Democrats, who had built up a strong appeal to Turkey's peasants, won by a reverse landslide. At this key point, having permitted a free election and lost, Inonu stepped down gracefully, and thereby became the father of Turkish democracy...
Last week it was Inonu (now 69 years old) against Bayar again. Both parties were strongly pro-Western, pro-American and anti-Soviet. Turkey's place as the Middle East's strongest anti-Communist bastion was not at issue. In other fields, the Republicans charged that the Democrats had failed to check inflation, had invited in foreign (U.S.) capital in too generous a fashion. The Democrats replied, in effect, by asking the people whether they were not better off than ever before...
...Yugoslav-Greek-Turkish treaty of friendship, signed last year in Ankara, into a military-assistance pact. Arriving in Istanbul aboard a Yugoslav training ship, Tito barely had time to deposit his luggage at Dolmabaghché Palace before he was whisked off to Ankara to confer with President Celal Bayar and Prime Minister Adnan Menderes...
...Turkey, where the democratic administration of President Celal Bayar has been harassed by extremist newspapers, the government hesitated to shut the fanatics up. But more than a year ago, an act of violence changed the mind of President Bayar and his Premier, Adnan Menderes: Ahmed Emin Yalman of Istanbul's Vatan, one of Turkey's leading newspapers, was shot three times one night after his paper warned against the tactics of Turkish religious fanatics. Editor Yalman survived, but Premier Menderes closed up many papers and put dozens of others under close surveillance. Last week the Menderes government took...
Although newspaper stories filed from Turkey reported these flurries as "anti-Americanism," they were actually just politicking prior to the general elections in May. Anti-American feeling hardly exists in Turkey. Though they snap at each other, Turkey's two major parties agree, as President Bayar recently told a U.S. audience, that "private enterprise is the best system [for] rehabilitating a country that is economically backward...