TURKEY OLD HABITS BEFORE HIS FALL IN 1960, PREMIER ADNAN MENDERES MADE 
A PRACTICE OF PADLOCKING HOSTILE TURKISH NEWSPAPERS, IMPRISONED JOURNALISTS BY THE 
HUNDREDS . POLICE ONCE THREW A NEWSBOY INTO JAIL FOR HAWKING 
A HEADLINE ABOUT A MINISTER'S RESIGNATION . AT THE TIME, THE 
LOUDEST PROTESTS CAME FROM WISPY OLD OPPOSITION LEADER ISMET INONU, WHO 
DENOUNCED " THOSE WHO WOULD SEEK TO ESTABLISH A COERCIVE REGIME 
. " BUT NOW THAT HE IS IN POWER HIMSELF, PREMIER 
INONU, 78, SHOWS SIGNS OF FALLING INTO MENDERES' OLD HABITS . 
HAULING OUT A MENDERES-ERA LAW OUTLAWING ANY WRITTEN OR SPOKEN WORD 
AIMED AT DISTURBING " THE ESTABLISHED " ORDER, THE INONU REGIME 
LAST MONTH JAILED KAYHAN SAGLAMER, MANAGING EDITOR OF ISTANBUL'S INFLUENTIAL DAILY, 
CUMHURIYET, AND SADI ALKILIC, A FREELANCE WRITER . IT TURNED OUT 
THAT CUMHURIYET HAD PUBLISHED AN ARTICLE BY ALKILIC ENTITLED " SOCIALISM 
IS THE ONLY SALVATION FOR TURKEY " ONE OF A SCORE 
SUBMITTED IN THE NEWSPAPER'S ANNUAL ESSAY CONTEST . FORTNIGHT AGO, DR 
. ADNAN BENK, RESPECTED PROFESSOR OF PHILOLOGY AT ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY, AND 
AFSAR TIMUCIN, EDITOR OF THE CULTURAL MAGAZINE ATAC, WERE CLAPPED INTO 
PRISON FOR ANOTHER CRIME WITH WORDS . ATAC HAD CARRIED BENK'S 
TRANSLATION OF PARTS OF A BOOK THAT INCLUDED FOUR QUOTATIONS FROM 
KARL MARX . PRIOR TO RELEASING THE PAIR LAST WEEK ON 
BAIL, AN ISTANBUL JUDGE IGNORED BENK'S ARGUMENT THAT THE ENTIRE BOOK 
CAN BE READ IN THE ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY . SPECIFICALLY ACCUSED 
OF SPREADING COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA, THE FOUR DEFENDANTS, UNDER ARTICLE 142, COULD 
GET PRISON TERMS OF 15 YEARS. 