Today in History – 24 April

İnönü is investigated

The Prosecution Office opened an investigation on April 24, 1959 to decide if the speech opposition leader İsmet İnönü delivered at the CHP Ankara City Convention in 1959 had discredited the honor and prestige of Prime Minister Adnan Menderes. Demanding to lift the parliamentary immunity of İnönü, DP also attacked the newspapers Akşam, Cumhuriyet, Hürriyet, Milliyet and Yeni Sabah, which published İnönü’s speech.

In the speech he delivered on December 28, 1958, İnönü had stated that DP was in the minority in the last six months and had therefore had begun to act tyrannously in complete violation of human rights in order to get rid of the opposition and the free press.

Meanwhile, the following words on the banner hanging on the wall of the Convention did not go unnoticed:

DP’s perception of the media: 2,324 journalists prosecuted in eight years. The total sentence given to 811 journalists in the last eight years amounts to 144 years and eight months.