Looming over Ankara's busy Ataturk Boulevard like an Anatolian mountain peak is the massive, honey-colored stone structure that houses Turkey's Parliament.
It was built by Premier Adnan Menderes and completed two years ago, just before Menderes was toppled by a military coup that led to his trial and hanging. Now the cavernous, wood-paneled Grand National Assembly building houses 450 Deputies in Byzantine comfort. Each man sits in a well-padded blue leather chair; on his desk is a row of white, green and red buttons linked to an enormous electronic vote-counting machine behind the speaker's platform. The only trouble with the...
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