New crisis in Turkey
fN.Z.PA -Reuter—Copyright) ANKARA, May 20.
The Republican People’s Party, the dominant partner in Turkey’s four-month-old ruling coalition, has decided to withdraw from the Government, plunging Turkey into a new political crisis. The decision to withdraw came at the end of four hours of debate among the party executive and the Parliamentary group yesterday, the second such meeting in two days. The uneasy marriage between the Social Democrats of the Prime Minister (Mr Ecevit) and the pro-Islamic traditionalist National Salvation Party foundered last Wednesday when a score of N.S.P. members voted against the Government over an article in an amnesty bill providing for the release of political prisoners.
Mr Ecevit had made freedom of political expression a matter of principle over which he was determined to have his way or resign.
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33539, 21 May 1974, Page 13
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