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    "ocrText": "SECRET\nBarlas, Cemil Sait.\nMinister of Commerce. Born 1905 in Istanbul. Educated in law at universities of\nIstanbul and Heidelberg. Has been a government legal inspector and adviser. Gener-\nally regarded as a loyal People's Republican Party man of moderate views.\nBarutçu, Faik Ahmet.\nMinister of State and Deputy Prime Minister. Born 1894 at Trabzon. Has held\nthe important post of Deputy Secretary General in the People's Republican Party.\nPrincipally concerned at present with coordinating government efforts to reduce the\nhigh cost of living and cutting government expenditures. In recent months, his work\nhas been severely handicapped by continued illness. Apparently an able and versatile\nman.\nBayar, Mahmut Celal.\nPresident and founder of the Democrat Party. Born 1884 near Gemlik. A deputy\nin the last Ottoman Assembly, has been a deputy for Izmir under the Republic continu-\nously since the first Grand National Assembly. After vigorously supporting the Kemal-\nist nationalist movement, held numerous cabinet posts under the then unopposed Peo-\nple's Republican Party, including the Ministry of Economy and (1937-1939) the Prime\nMinistership. Helped create, as General Manager, the Is (Work) Bank, the state-owned\ncommercial bank. In 1945, resigned from the People's Republican Party to found, with\nPresident Inönü's encouragement, the Democrat Party, which he has since built up to\nits present great strength as the leading opposition party. A very able administrator,\nobviously with growing popular support, whose patriotism has been indicated by firm\nadherence to a bipartisan foreign policy, by opposition to Soviet pressure, and by rejec-\ntion of extremist advisers and support from potentially subversive sources. Deserves\nas much as anyone the credit for the success of Turkey's experiment in multi-party poli-\ntics. May once again be Prime Minister, after the 1950 General Elections.\nBayizit, Dr. Kemali.\nMinister of Health and Social Aid. Born 1903 in Maras. M.D., University of Istan-\nbul, 1925. Until elected to the Grand National Assembly in 1939, was a practising phy-\nsician and People's Republican Party supporter in Antalya. Present assignment his\nfirst important national post.\nBayur, Hikmet.\nFounder and president of the Nation Party. Born 1891 at Istanbul. Educated at\nUniversity of Istanbul and in France. Joined the Kemalist revolutionary movement\nand later entered the foreign service, in which he has served as Minister to Yugoslavia\nand Ambassador to Afghanistan. Served two terms as Secretary General (i.e., personal\nexecutive secretary) to President Atatürk. Deputy for Manisa from 1934 to 1946, dur-\ning part of which period he also taught at the University of Ankara. After being ousted\nfrom the People's Republican Party following an open quarrel with Premier Saracoglu\nin 1945, sat as an independent deputy until defeated in the 1946 general elections and\nbegan a series of daily editorials denouncing the People's Republican Party government.\nIn July 1948, with some disgruntled members and ex-members of the Democrat Party\nSECRET\n62"
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