Evening star., 1944-06-07
|Pro-Nazi Movement
Smashed in Turkey
Called Real Threat
BY WILLIAM b. KING.

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Has Just Returned From Year in Turkey.
NEW YORK. June THE re.
dictionary and pro-Nazi movement
just smashed in Turkey by Presi-
dent Ismet Inonu had gained such
headway that open fear was ex.
pressed recently in both Ankara
and Istanbul that it might drive
the nation into unqualified Fascism
in postwar years.
The movem ent, apparently
financed by German money and Leo
by group of Fascist college and
lyceum professors, preyed on i'm
pressionable students and appealed
to the small group of Turks who
dream of re-establishing at least
a part of the old Ottoman Empire.
Under incitement from the
leaders, students committed acts
of vandalism against liberals in
Istanbul. In some instances police
were induced to arrest and Danish
to the interior other liberals de-
nounced by the organization as
Communists and traitors.
When the movement came clearly
into the open with a riot of several
hundred students before the prime
ministry in Ankara May 8, how
ever, Inonu's government stepped
in with measures which seem to
have scattered the disruptive
forces.
Labeled Plot Against Republic.
The seriousness of the situation
was apparent when Inonu. in a
speech to a giant gathering of Turk
ish youth, frankly labeled it a plot
against the republic. Those arrested
have been charged with activities
against the constitution"
The movement, going under the
name of the Grey Wolf Society and
processing a pan-Turanian pro-
gram, first came into the open when
la bookshop was wrecked and its
proprietor assaulted, when stones
were flung through the windows of
la liberal Istanbul newspaper and
when it became known that meet
ings of students were being ha-
rangued in Hitler style by rabid
professors.
(Grey Wolf is a name fire.
quently given to Kemal Aata-
turk, founder of the Turkish re-
public, and refers to the gaunt,
predatory wolves that prowl the
Anatolian plateau, fighting and
hunting without quarter.
(The pan-Turanian program is
an ill-defined idea for uniting
all peoples of Turkish blood
throughout Europe and Asia. ITS
plan would imply annexation of
large slices of Balkan, Middle
Eastern and Russian territory.
Pan-Turanianism is In direct
contradiction to the program laid
out for modern Turkey by Alta
turk and scrupulously followed by
Inonu.)
No Court Action Taken.
The initial acts of vandalism were
smoothed over and no court action
taken, but the menace of the nove-
ment could not be ignored after the
Ankara riots. Students swarmed
about the Ministry of Justice, where
trial of a suit for defamation OF
character was in progress. The ac-
ton grew out of charges leveled
against liberal professor by Fas-
cist-minded publication IN Istanbul
When the students were denied
admittance to the courtroom, they
moved to the prime ministry, where
they shouted insults against demo-
Ecratic Prime Minister Sukru Sara
lcogiu. It was the first time under
the republic that such demonstra-
ton has been directed at member
of the government.
It became obvious Immediately
that normal police strength in the
vicinity could not deal with the mob,
particularly because of a near-com-