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"The land is no longer coy with me. Because he and I started speaking the same language. I get along with the soil the same way a mother gets along with her baby who doesn't talk. This land absorbs my tiredness, anger, sadness and sorrow. So I air it out and leave it in the sun. We smell each other."
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The most striking aspect of the Yassıada hearings was the strict attitude of the president of the court, Salim Başol. Başol was out of date with his sentence, "This is what the force that put you here wants." This was a revelation declaring that the courts were working under instructions and the outcome was clear. Although he was supposed to be an impartial judge, he did not hesitate to insult those on the bench in his speeches.
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Attacks on Ataturk busts were carried out by a group called Ticaniler. This group, which attempted to destroy the Ataturk busts in Ulus in broad daylight and whose origins are unknown, left Menderes in a difficult situation in the secularism debate... It was confiscated immediately. Menderes prepared an unexpected bill: The law to protect Atatürk. Passing this law was not that easy. It was questioned within the party, "Why should a person be protected by law, even if it is Ataturk?"... Menderes had to go to the podium 7 times to answer the criticisms. To the parties that try to understand the reason for the law and see it as a restriction of democracy, "We are preventing insults to Atatürk's person, not criticism of his actions." He said.... Menderes was able to ward off the trouble that came upon them with the law he enacted to protect Atatürk. With the law, no one attacked the buses again, but the reactionary paranoia had already started.