For a year the Turks have lived, uneasy but defiant, under a Soviet threat. This week they moved a long way toward the democratic nations. They did not ask the West for help, nor did they send another tart note to Russia; they simply held an electiontheir first really free one.
An overwhelming proportion of the ten million Turks eligible to vote turned out under a scorching sun. President Ismet Inönä's People's Party remained in power; the main opposition party, the Democrats (formed only six months ago), had not been able to put-up more than 275 candidates for the National Assembly's...
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