TURKEY INSURRECTION 22 AS COMMANDANT OF THE ANKARA WAR COLLEGE, TURKEY'S WEST 
POINT, COLONEL TALAT AYDEMIR LAST YEAR DECIDED TO TREAT HIS CADETS 
TO A SORT OF AFTER-HOURS SEMINAR IN CURRENT EVENTS . HIS 
SUBJECT WAS THE SLOW PACE OF GOVERNMENT REFORM UNDER PREMIER ISMET 
INONU . TO SPEED THINGS UP, AYDEMIR, 43, A TOUGH EX-ARTILLERY 
OFFICER, SUGGESTED THAT THE LADS SUPPORT HIM IN AN ARMED REBELLION 
AGAINST THE SHAKY INONU REGIME . BUT EVERYONE FLUNKED THE FINAL 
EXAM IN INSURRECTION I AN ABORTIVE COUP LED BY AYDEMIR IN 
FEBRUARY 1962 THAT FIZZLED OUT IN SIX HOURS . TEACHER LOST 
HIS JOB AND HIS UNIFORM, AND THE CADETS WERE DISCIPLINED . 
UNDAUNTED, FORMER COLONEL AYDEMIR, SOME 200 OTHER EX-ARMY OFFICERS AND ABOUT 
300 CADETS LAST WEEK TRIED INSURRECTION II ; THEY FLUNKED AGAIN 
. THE REVOLT BEGAN SHORTLY AFTER MIDNIGHT WHEN MUTINEERS STORMED THE 
ANKARA RADIO STATION AND BROADCAST A DECLARATION THAT THE " REVOLUTIONARY 
HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMED FORCES / WAS TAKING OVER THE COUNTRY 
. ROUSED FROM THEIR SLEEP, LOYAL ARMY TROOPS RACED TO THE 
SCENE, REGAINING CONTROL OF THE MICROPHONES BRIEFLY, ONLY TO LOSE IT 
ONCE AGAIN TO THE INSURGENTS . THE CLAIMS AND COUNTERCLAIMS GOING 
OUT OVER THE AIR WAVES WERE ALL VERY CONFUSING TO THE 
FOLKS TUNED IN AT HOME . IN THE DISTANCE, THEY COULD 
ALSO HEAR THE RUMBLE OF TANKS MANNED BY REBEL CADETS, AND 
THE WHOOSH OF GOVERNMENT AIR FORCE F-100 JETS THAT WERE SPRAYING 
THE REBELS WITH MACHINE-GUN FIRE FROM ROOFTOP LEVEL . WHEN AT 
LAST IT WAS CLEAR THAT THE REVOLUTIONARIES WERE CLEARLY OUTGUNNED, AYDEMIR, 
WHO HAD AGAIN DONNED HIS COLONEL'S UNIFORM, RACED FOR SAFETY BACK 
TO THE WAR COLLEGE . AS GOVERNMENT TROOPS THREATENED TO LEVEL 
THE BUILDING, HE SNEAKED OUT A BACK DOOR, LATER WAS CAPTURED 
IN A FRIEND'S HOME WHILE CHANGING BACK TO CIVILIAN CLOTHES . 
THE REVOLT WAS ENDED LESS THAN TWELVE HOURS AFTER IT STARTED 
. SEVEN WERE DEAD AND 26 OTHERS WOUNDED, INCLUDING AYDEMIR'S SUCCESSOR 
AS COMMANDANT OF OF THE WAR COLLEGE, WHO WAS SHOT IN 
THE LEG BY HIS OWN CADETS WHEN HE TRIED TO PERSUADE 
THEM TO SURRENDER . ARRESTED ALONG WITH AYDEMIR WERE ABOUT 20 
OTHER EX-OFFICERS ACCUSED AS RINGLEADERS OF THE UPRISING . THEY WILL 
GO ON TRIAL BEFORE A MILITARY COURT, AND MOST TURKS DOUBTED 
THAT THEY WILL LIVE LONG ENOUGH TO TRY INSURRECTION III . 
