Word: konya
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...modern Turkey "state and religion must be separate." Then dapper, driving Premier Adnan Menderes, trying to whip up popular support to offset rising big-city discontent with his extravagant inflationary policies (TIME, Oct. 24), took off on a speech-making swing through his Anatolian farm-country strongholds. At Konya, in the wheat-growing heart of what Istanbul calls the Koran belt, he blurted out the most direct pitch yet for the prayer-rug vote by a leader of modern Turkey: "If there are no courses on religion in our schools," he said, "citizens who want their children to learn religion...
With an anecdote Reporter Tomara answered Question No. 2. Proceeding by bus from Ankara to Beirut, she was delayed by a breakdown in the middle of the salt desert of Konya. From the hovels of a dirt-poor Turkish village, the populace swarmed around. Out stepped "an elderly man whose head was wrapped in a dirty rag-possibly a turban, the wearing of which long ago had been banned by the late Kamal Ataturk. The old man, who had been taken prisoner by the Russians in the last war, addressed me in primitive Russian, filling out gaps in his sentence...
...feeling of the lowly peasants was not much different from that of residents of Ankara, although Konya and Ankara appeared to be separated...