TURKEY: Tactical Deployment?

Down curving Ankara Caddesi, Istanbul's Fleet Street, rushed a mob of students. They poured pell mell into the rickety three-story building housing Tan (Dawn), a leftist morning newspaper edited by smart Columbia University-trained Zekeriya SertelVsiey wrecked the old flat-bed presses, the crowd swept over the Golden Horn to attack the plant of La Turquie, which had suddenly turned leftist when the British withdrew their "favors" at war's end and Soviet agents started buying up thousands of copies daily.

The Russian press growled that the Turkish Government had given police protection to the rioters and used the incident to build up its pressure for a more "friendly" government in Turkey. Observers, who had seen the same thing happen elsewhere, waited for a Russian-controlled political party to spring up in Turkey.

But apparently the Turks had been expecting the same thing. A new party, strategically placed to split any opposition that might develop, was organizing under the leadership of balding, bespectacled, former Premier Jelal Mahmet Bayar. The semi-official newspaper Ulus gave Bayar a significant pat on the back. Said Ulus: "There is no possibility of feeling anything but happiness to have in the opposition a man of such qualifications. . , ."