Word: yassiada
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Even to the most ardent supporter of Turkey's new military regime, the mass trial on Yassiada Island of hundreds of officials of the old civilian government seemed to be off to a shaky start. It was bad enough to begin with the trivial charge that ousted President Celal Bayar -onetime companion in arms to the late great Kemal Ataturk-had gypped the government in the sale of a shaggy dog. Last week the prosecution seemed intent on proving only that ex-Premier Adnan Menderes, married and the father of three sons, was indiscreetly fond of girls...
...months the Turkish army regime has labored like so many busy Hollywood stagehands. They were preparing a vast public trial of the civilians they ousted from power, President Celal Bayar and Premier Adnan Menderes. Last week, on the fortress island of Yassiada in the Sea of Marmara, in a converted basketball court where Turkish recruits once sweated and exercised, the show began...
When police came to arrest him last week, unruffled Professor Koprulu said: "I have absolute faith in the justice of the supreme revolutionary court and am confident the guilt of the real culprits will be established." Then he joined the other 537 political prisoners in the island jail of Yassiada...
...soldiers behind it. Abruptly abandoning his live-and-let-live attitude, Premier Gursel declared sternly: "Former ministers will have to account for their deeds." Once more jeeps rolled through Ankara making mass arrests. By midweek 403 out of 406 Democratic Deputies were in jail, most of them on Yassiada Island, eleven miles out to sea from Istanbul...