University Daily Kansan Wednesday, October 11, 1961
Turkey to Hold General Elections Sunday
ISTANBUL — (UPI)—Four weeks after the execution of former Prime Minister Adnan Menderes, post-revolutionary Turkey is scheduled to vote on Sunday in the first general elections since the military coup in May last year.
There are reasons the ruling military junta has set general elections now. It is four years since the last elections and traditionally general elections are held every four years. Also, the military government promised elections as soon as possible and has been under pressure to make good on the pledge.
VOTERS FROM 67 provinces will elect 450 deputies to the lower house and somewhat less than half of the 150 senators in the newly-created upper house. Most of the senate will consist of nominated members of the revolutionary junta, former chiefs of staff, former presidents, high-ranking judges and others appointed by General Cemal Gursel, the present head of state.
Gursel created the senate under the newly-drafted constitution because he believed the "dictatorship
Four Thefts Reported
The theft of a rifle telescope, valued at $115, and a $65 amplifier have been reported to campus police.
Sgt. John E. Mix, assistant instrutor of military science, told police the telescope was missed Thursday.
The amplifier was taken from the Memorial Stadium press box, apparently sometime Saturday, according to a report from the building and grounds department.
Police yesterday received reports of the theft of two bicycles from the campus area.
of deputies," as the revolutionaries called the Menderes regime, was made possible by the single house system.
Gursel has promised that the elections will be "fair and free," but the voters' choices are somewhat restricted. The policies of the four political parties contesting the election differ little.
The party leaders, with one exception, signed a declaration at a roundtable conference with the National Union Committee—the ruling junta—agreeing to accept the junta's internal and external policies.
THE DECLARATION, signed before Menderes' execution on Sept. 17, is regarded by armed forces representatives who support the junta as an oath of allegiance binding the parties to the principles of these policies.
As there are also no great economic or social differences between parties, observers here see the general election campaign as one between leaders, rather than party programs.
The People's Republican Party (CHP) is prominent in the campaign. The CHP was founded by Kemal Ataturk, who built the modern republic out of the ruins of the Ottoman Empire at the end of World War I.
The CHP's present leader is Ismet Inoun, who was Attaturk's close associate, and a former president, premier and general. While Inoun has had great political experience, he is now past 70. Rustuk Aksal, a party secretariat member, already has been chosen as Inoun's heir.
INONUS' PAST foreign policy has followed a largely neutralist line
which tends to be pro-Western. His election pledges now take him on a road parallel to Central Treaty Organization (CENTO) and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) conceptions.
The Justice Party (AP) is headed by ex-army General Rigip Gumuspala, whose slow participation in the May 27, 1960, military uprising against Menderes caused some speculation here as to where his sympathies lay. The revolutionary junta first made him chief of the general staff, and then withdrew him from active service.
He gathered support from Menderes and signed the junta's policy declaration. Then the junta hanged Menderes, the idol of Gumuspala's followers. Observers think his party will still attract the majority of former Democratic voters.
THE NEW TURKISH PARTY (YTP) is led by Ekrem Alican, former finance minister in the revolutionary cabinet. His past but close affiliation with the junta causes him to be viewed with suspicion by some ex-Democrats. Alican's deputies are considered more moderate than those of Gumuspala's, but his chances do not appear as high as those of the AP leader.
Osman Bolukbasi, Republican Peasant's National Party (CKMP) leader, is the only man who abstained from signing the round-table
conference's declaration. He is also the only political leader to have spoken publicly against Menderes' execution.
Many have described Bolukbasi as a man with "backward" ideas.
WHICHEVER PARTY wins the most votes, the new election system based on proportional representation is bound to create a strong opposition in both houses, according to observers who fear that Turkey may become a country torn by coalition governments.
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Granted the elections do take place as scheduled, representatives of the armed forces who support today's ruling military junta make no bones about their intention to intervene if "events" take a "wrong turn."
In that event, Turkey could well experience yet another revolution.
LAFAYETTE, Ind—(UPI)—Purdue University's four-ton locomotive tender "Boilermaker special" was hauled from a gravel pit yesterday where it had been dumped by "unknown pranksters" Saturday.
The interpretation of "right" or "wrong" will naturally be up to the supporters of the junta, which could, for example, regard any resurgence of pro-Menderes factions as against the vital interests of the nation.
Boilermaker Revived
The Boilermaker football team lost to Notre Dame Saturday, but nobody blamed the Irish-officially.
Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.—Dickens
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