STUDENT RIOTS END IN TURKEY

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29193, 2 May 1960, Page 11

STUDENT RIOTS END IN TURKEY

All-Day Curfew Imposed In Istanbul (N.Z. Press Association-Copyright) (Rec. 10 p.m.) ISTANBUL, May 1. . Turkish military authorities, in a surprise move last announced that an all-day curfew would be imposed in Istanbul for May. Day on the eve of the meeting of Foreign Ministers of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation. Istanbul was uneasily quiet last night after three days of student demonstrations against the Government. Troops and tanks stood by and bands of youths, 40 or 50 strong, were shepherded into side streets.

British United Press said student resistance in Istanbul to the Turkish Government has ended.

This morning, 2000 students who had camped overnight in the grounds of the city’s university were rounded up by Army units and taken to a camp outside the city. The operation W as carried out peacefully. Istanbul and Ankara, Turkey’s two main cities, are to remain under martial law for three months, the National Assembly decided last night after the Prime Minister, Mr Adnan Menderes, had appealed to the people to cooperate with the authorities. Martial law was imposed in the two cities on Thursday after antiGovernment student demonstrations, which yesterday spread to Ankara, the capital, and Izmir. Three persons were unofficially reported killed and an unknown number injured in clashes which developed in Ankara as students silently mourned colleagues killed by police fire in the Istanbul demonstrations. In Izmir, a few hundred students marched in procession in support of the Istanbul students, who dispersed peacefully. Six opposition newspapers have been closed down by the authorities. Istanbul University has been closed for a month, and thousands of students camped in the grounds during the night, surrounded by troops, who entered the grounds after the students refused to leave.

Heavy tanks and armed soldiers blocked streets during minor demonstrations last night near the Golden Horn and Taksim square, in the middle of Istanbul, but the

demonstrators later dispersed. The demonstrations began as a protest against the suspension from Parliament of Mr Ismet Inonu, leader of the Republican People’s Party, and other Opposition members, who attacked a bill passed the previous night giving powers of press censorship to Parliamentary committees. During last night’s debate. Opposition deputies stood for one minute in honour of those killed in the clashes, but Government deputies banged their bench covers. Several Opposition members were suspended from the Assembly for short periods. Comment In Korea

(Rec. 9 p.m.) SEOUL, May 1. News of student riots in Turkey has been carried under banner headlines in a Seoul newspaper. A few days ago South Korean students demonstrated against their one-man ruler, President Syngman Rhee, and brought him down.

The independent newspaper “Hankook Ilbo” said: “Until a month ago, Turkey in the West and South Korea in the East were strikingly similar in being antiCommunist and at the same time undemocratic. It may safely be said the Turkish students were inspired by their Korean counterparts.”