AUTOGRAPH TURKEY RARE PRESIDENT Cemal Gürsel COUP SIGNED CARD ORIGINAL VINTAGE

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AUTOGRAPH TURKEY RARE PRESIDENT Cemal Gürsel COUP SIGNED CARD ORIGINAL VINTAGE
AUTOGRAPH TURKEY RARE PRESIDENT Cemal Gürsel COUP SIGNED CARD ORIGINAL VINTAGE

AUTOGRAPH TURKEY RARE PRESIDENT Cemal Gürsel COUP SIGNED CARD ORIGINAL VINTAGE
A VERY RARE VINTAGE ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH OF. Former President of Turkey ON APPROXIMATELY 3X4 CARD. Cemal Gürsel Turkish: d? Sæl; 13 October 1895 – 14 September 1966 was a Turkish army general who became the fourth President of Turkey after a coup. [citation needed] After the elementary school in Ordu and the military middle school in Erzincan, he graduated from the Kuleli military high school in Istanbul. He was a popular figure and was therefore nicknamed “Cemal Aga” (big brother Cemal) since his childhood school years and onwards all his life. Gürsel served in the Army for 45 years. During World War I, he participated in the Battle of Çanakkale in Dardanelles, Gallipoli as a lieutenant with the First Battery of the 12th Artillery Regiment in 1915 and received the War Medal. He later fought at the Palestine and Syria fronts in 1917 and became a prisoner of war by the British while suffering malaria during his command of the 5th Battery of the 41st Regiment on 19 September 1918. Gürsel was kept as a prisoner of war in Egypt until 6 October 1920. During his presidency much later, when interviewed by the foreign press as to why he had not learned English during his captivity, he somewhat regretfully recalled that he was so frustrated to be a captive, he protested and studied French in the British camp instead. He was promoted for gallantry in the First Division excelling in the battles of Second Inönü, Eskisehir and Sakarya, and was later awarded the Medal of Independence by the first Parliament for his combat service in the Final Offensive. Gürsel was married, in 1927, to Melahat, the daughter of the chief engineer on the Ottoman cruiser Hamidiye. From this marriage, a son Özdemir was born. The couple adopted a daughter Türkan. Cemal Gürsel attended the Turkish Military College and graduated in 1929 as a staff officer. He was promoted colonel in 1940. He was made a brigadier general in 1946 and made commander of the 65th Division. He was later the commander of the 12th Division, the 18th Corps commander, and commander of the 2nd Interior Tasks District. Made Lieutenant general in 1953, was general in 1957, being appointed Commander of 3rd Army. Service included chief of intelligence, and he was appointed as the Commander of Land Forces in 1958 when he was commanding an army. Gürsel, as an easy-going and fatherly figure with a fine sense of humor, was well liked both nationally and in NATO circles, and had earned the respect and confidence of both the nation and the armed forces with his professional knowledge and demeanor. A patriotic memorandum he sent on 3 May 1960 to the Minister of Defense in an effort to establish checks and balances on ongoing affairs, reflecting his personal views in continuation of the chat they had the night before, expressing his support to the prime minister Adnan Menderes and belief that the Prime Minister should replace the President with immediate effect to bolster a much needed national unity, resulted in his suspension from his post, forcing early retirement instead of becoming the next Chief of the Turkish General Staff. A farewell letter by him, advocating and urging the army to stay out of politics, was forwarded to all units of the armed forces at the time of his departure on leave. Cemal Gürsel’s statement read:’Always hold high the honor of the army and the uniform you wear. Protect yourselves from the current ambitious and harmful political atmosphere in the country. Stay away from the politics at all cost. This is of utmost importance to your honor, the army’s might and the future of the country. He went to Izmir where he became the president of the Anti-Communism Association of Turkey. See also: 1960 Turkish coup d’état. A coup d’état organised and conducted by army officers at the rank of colonels and below took place without the participation or leadership of Cemal Gürsel on 27 May 1960 after continuing civilian and academia unrests throughout the country. It is rumored that four-star general Ragip Gümüspala, the Commander of the Third Army based in Eastern Anatolia, gave an ultimatum to the rebelling officers that if they did not have a general appointed as their head, the Third Army would attack to take over the capital and the administration of the country, thereby forcing the rebel group to find a senior officer over them. Because of his immense popularity among the public and military ranks, Gürsel was subsequently chosen by the revolutionaries overnight and brought into the chairmanship of the military coup and became, as of 2015, the only leader in the world put into power by a military takeover who had previously had no role in its planning or execution. He, while still in his pajamas, was escorted to Ankara in the military C-47 transport plane by a captain who was the youngest officer of the radical coup team who that by that time had already sent President Celal Bayar, Prime Minister Adnan Menderes, Chief of General Staff Rüstü Erdelhun and some other members of the ruling Democratic Party to a military court on Yassiada in the Sea of Marmara, accusing them of violation of the constitution. The day after the coup, four-star general Cemal Gürsel was declared the commander in chief, Head of state, Prime minister and Minister of Defense of the 24th government on 30 May 1960, in theory giving him more absolute powers than even Kemal Atatürk had ever had. Gürsel freed 200 students and nine newsmen, and licensed 14 banned newspapers to start publishing again (Time, 6 June 1960). He fetched ten law professors, namely Siddik Sami Onar, Hifzi Veldet Velidedeoglu, Ragip Sarica, Naci Sensoy, Hüseyin Nail Kubali, Tarik Zafer Tunaya, Ismet Giritli, Ilhan Arsel, Bahri Savci and Muammer Aksoy, accompanied by Erdogan Teziç, a law postgraduate student as their assistant (later Chairman of the Turkish Council of Higher Education), from Istanbul and Ankara Universities to help draft a new constitution on 27 May, right after he arrived in Ankara. During their first meeting with General Cemal Gürsel on the same day, Prof. Onar declared on behalf of the group of law academicians that’the circumstances of the day should not be interpreted as an ordinary and political coup d’état, implying the revolution being brought by the change process starting in the republic that day. President Cemal Gürsel also formed a scientific council to guide the Ministry of Defence, later forming the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey to advise the government more broadly. He appointed General Ragip Gümüspala, the commander of the Third Army, as the new Chief of the General Staff who, upon his retirement in two months, was succeeded by General Cevdet Sunay, and Gümüspala was further directed by Gürsel to form the new Justice Party to bring together the former members of the Democratic Party. A simple and conservative sort, Gürsel became Turkey’s most popular figure, forbade display of his picture alongside Atatürk’s in government offices, rode about in an open Jeep touring rural communities, talking to the peasants almost as if they were his children (Time, 6 January 1961). He was successful with his personal interventions in reducing the number of execution verdicts from the Yassiada trials from 15 down to three. Gürsel’s plea for forgiveness and attempts along with several other world leaders for the reversal of the execution sentences and for the release of Adnan Menderes and two other ministers were rejected by the Junta. Of the National Unity Committee writes in his memoirs that, upon Cemal Gürsel’s intervention on the prevention of Menderes’ execution, the chief prosecutor of the tribunal, Altay Ömer Egesel, said:’Let us hurry! They will save him (Menderes)! , also arranging a contingency plan for conducting the execution in a Navy Destroyer in the event of a forgiveness operation in Imrali Island to save Menderes while, at the same time, placing a press release questioning the legal ability of Gürsel for an intervention. Adnan Menderes was hanged against the regulations. I was supposed to oversee the execution. The revolution tribunal’s chief prosecutor Egesel conducted the execution despite not being authorized. Ismet Inönü and Cemal Gürsel were already phoning for him (Menderes) not to be executed but the telecommunications’ office cut off the lines and Egesel made use of the (communication) gap to conduct the execution. Cemal Gürsel resisted pressure to continue military rule, was wounded as a result of a military assassination attempt on his life forgave the colonelwho? Who shot him, thwarted subsequent multiple military coup attempts, appointed the organizers of the coup to overseas posts and played an important role in the preparation of a new constitution and return to the democratic order of the Kemalist vision. Gürsel Hosting HM Queen Elizabeth II. Cemal Gürsel rescheduled and attended the previously cancelled Turkish and Scottish national football teams’ game in Ankara on 8 June 1960 (Turkey 4, Scotland 2) which was followed by a National Football Tournament, the Cemal Gürsel Cup, that helped boost the national morale in the post-coup weeks with finals in Istanbul on 3 July (Fenerbahçe 1, Galatasaray 0). He took an active role in extensive modernization of Turkish Armed Forces and the staunch defense of the free world and Europe during the cold war, in particular during the Cuban Missile Crisis. The declaration of independence of Cyprus according to the prior agreements and the deployment of a Turkish military unit to Cyprus took place in August 1960. He hosted the visit of Queen Elizabeth II to Ankara in early 1961 and the visit of the vice president Lyndon Johnson in 1962. Gürsel obtained, with the coordinated work of Sir Bernard Burrows, and granted permission of the ruling military National Unity Committee (NUC) for British military combat aircraft to overfly Turkish airspace on their way to support Kuwait, which was under threat of invasion by Iraq in July 1961. When questioned by a German journalist regarding his intentions on becoming the next president upon proposal of the interim parliament, Cemal Gürsel responded that he was ready to serve only if asked by the nation, not by the interim house. He neither put his own candidacy forward for the presidency nor lobbied for his election or against any other candidate in any way. He offered his endorsement of candidacy of several high rank academicians in Medicine and Sciences in Ankara for both the interim prime minister and future president positions. Gürsel placed a special emphasis on participatory democracy with the promotion of the full interests of the nation’s minorities, appointing Turkish Citizen ethnic leaders Hermine Kalustyan of Armenian, Kaludi Laskari of Greek and Erol Dilek of Jewish origin as his “Deputy Representatives of Head of State” and the full members of the interim House of Representatives. The editor of Shalom, Avram Leyon, accompanied him on his travels and foreign state functions. He re-established the freedom of speech that was overwhelmingly taken away from the media organs and from the press by the previous cabinet. The constitution, which brought for the first time a full text of civil and political rights under constitutional protection along with an improved system of checks and balances in Turkish history, was approved by a referendum held on 10 October 1961. With the establishment of the first Constitutional Court that created a new paradigm shift by scrutinizing the parliamentary rulings as the “checks” organ in 1961 and the addition of a Senate to the parliament, the Turkish Grand National Assembly was re-opened after the general elections, nominated and voted him as the fourth president of Turkey. Journalist Parliamentarian Cihat Baban claims in his book, The Gallery of Politics (Politika Galerisi) that Cemal Gürsel told him We may solve all troubles if Süleyman Demirel becomes the head of the Justice Party (Adalet Partisi). If I succeed in this, I will be happy.. Demirel was elected Chairman at the second grand party convention on 28 November 1964. The President of the Republic of Turkey Cemal Gürsel assigned the mandate to form and serve as the Prime Minister of the new government to Ismet Inönü in November 1961, June 1962 and December 1963, to Senator Suat Hayri Ürgüplü on February 1965 and, following the general elections, to Suleyman Demirel of Justice Party in October 1965. With the reduction of tensions between the West and the Soviet bloc, Gürsel sought improved relations for his country’s population of 27.8 million with the Soviet Union, such as the initiation of a telephone line agreement, as with the other members of the Western alliance while initiating new credit agreements with the US and the UK as well as bilateral technical and investment relations with Germany in 1960s. The atomic reactor in Istanbul became operational in 1962 along with his establishment of the first Research and State Library of the government in two years after his administration started. He promoted the grant of the freedom of and the legal rights to form unions and to go on strike in the country. Turkish Universities gained autonomous independence by law for the first time upon the legislation he passed. Cemal Gürsel granted a presidential pardon for the life sentences of the previous president Celal Bayar and the former chief of general staff Rustu Erdelhun whose prior execution sentence was also revoked by the National Unity Committee upon Gürsel’s appeals. He initiated the new era of planned economy in Turkey, formed a State Institute of Statistics, launched the State Planning Organization (DPT) that implemented “The First 5-Years Development Plan”, arranged re-entry of the Turkish Republic in the United Nations Security Council in 1961 and moved Turkey, through his close and personal diplomatic dialogues with Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer, into the direction of European Union membership with the Ankara Agreement, signed with France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Italy and Luxembourg in 1963, resulting in associate membership the following year and a large Turkish workforce migration to Germany and Western Europe to assist their postwar industrial development. When a Cypriot leader who was exiled out of the UK previously in 1956 on the basis of his struggle for Cypriot independence from the British rule, wanted in November 1963 to amend the basic articles of the 1960 constitution, communal violence ensued and Turkey, Great Britain and Greece, the guarantors of the agreements which had led to Cyprus’ independence, wanted to send a NATO force to the island under the command of General Young. Due to the continued ethnic violence between the Cypriot Turks and Cypriot Greeks, President Gürsel ordered warning flights and subsequent continuous air assaults by the Turkish Air Force against the island which continued between 7 and 10 August 1964, ending with the fulfilment of the military objectives of Turkey, and the invitation to calm by Nikita Khrushchev of USSR. Cemal Gürsel reformed the “Teskilat-i Mahsusa”, the “Special Organization” of clandestine security services to a modern National Intelligence Agency in response to and preparation against escalating international terrorism trends in 1963. He paved the way to Middle Eastern countries and Pakistan to concentrate on economic and cultural matters of mutual interest and Ankara recognized Syria following the breakup of the short-lived United Arab Republic in 1961, further reestablishing diplomatic relations with Egypt in 1965. In July 1964, Pakistani President Ayub Khan, Turkish President Cemal Gürsel, and Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran announced in Istanbul the establishment of the Regional Cooperation for Development (RCD) organization to promote transportation and joint economic projects also envisioning Afghanistan and possibly Indonesia joining at some time in the future. He granted asylum to the political dissidents Ayatollah Khoumeini of Iran and Molla Barzani of Iraq. Gürsel, 40 years after the foundation of the Republic, launched the first radio broadcasting station of Eastern Anatolia within the centrally located province of Erzurum, where Ankara and Istanbul radios’ transmissions were not received. He brought the Microwave Telecommunications Network into operation increasing telephone and teletype capacity along with a High-Frequency Radio Link connecting London and Ankara with Rawalpindi, Karachi, Tehran and Istanbul. He laid the foundations of the new agricultural and structural development plans for the south-eastern Anatolian regions in early 1960s for the first time. With his directive, The Holy Relics from the Prophets Abraham, Moses, Joseph, David and Muhammad, including the oldest Qur’an in existence from the 7th Century were put on display from their storage rooms within the Topkapi Palace for public viewing for the first time on 31 August 1962. Gürsel added the first Ministry of Culture and Tourism to the cabinet. In a parallel effort of promoting the country’s touristic popularity in the West, Topkapi, the movie version of the book by Eric Ambler that had been commissioned for the same purpose, was shot in Paris and Istanbul and was introduced with success. Similarly, one of the favorite books of John F. Kennedy, Ian Fleming’s From Russia with Love was shot in Istanbul as the second James Bond movie, to promote the touristic popularity of Turkey, with his keen interest. The Directorate of Religious Affairs network of the country was founded with his directive and became operational on 22 June 1965. He started the new procedure of returning the law proposals presented for the President’s approval back to the Parliamentary re-discussions in 1963. Cemal Gürsel founded The National Security Council (MGK) as well as the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) in 1963, appointing Professor Cahit Arf as its first director, officially charging TUBITAK primarily with governmental advisory duty by legislation. In addition to the foundation of the Turkish Radio and Television (TRT) organization as a government agency in 1964 that brought television broadcasting to Turkey for the first time under his administration, the opening of The School of Press and Broadcasting at the College of Political Sciences in Ankara followed in November 1965. The country’s new initiative of Planning of Population Growth Control was put in effect in 1965. The production of the first domestic Turkish automobile, the Devrim (Revolution), took place with Cemal Gürsel’s directive which sparked the initiation of an automotive industry in the republic in the following few years. The first use of a computer in the country, iron and steel mass production growth, the thermic power plant and a petrol pipeline structuring took place during his presidency. Cemal Gürsel refused remuneration for his Head of State and subsequent Presidential positions and made his and his family’s living with his retired general’s salary, meeting their own expenses during their life in the Presidential Palace in Çankaya, Ankara. Because of a paralysis that started in early 1961 and progressed quickly in 1966, on 2 February Cemal Gürsel was flown to the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D. On the private airplane “BlueBird” sent by US President Lyndon B. One week later, he fell into a coma there after suffering a series of new paralytic strokes. The government decided he return to Turkey on 24 March. President Johnson travelled by helicopter from the White House to Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, near Washington, D. To pay his respects to President Cemal Gürsel on his departure to home, In addition to issuing the following statement’Our distinguished friend, President Cemal Gursel of Turkey, came to the United States on 2 February for medical treatment. There was hope that new therapeutic procedures only recently developed in this country would be useful in treating his illness of several years. We were initially encouraged by his progress at Walter Reed Hospital, only to be shocked by the news on 8 February that his health had suffered a grave new blow. Our best talent, coupled with the skill of the eminent Turkish doctors who accompanied the President, was exerted to the utmost in the hope that the President might return to his home in fully restored health. We are saddened that this hope was not to be realized. We have been deeply honored to have President Gürsel come to our country to seek medical treatment. With a report of a medical committee by Gülhane Military Hospital in Ankara, the parliament ruled on 28 March 1966 that his presidency be terminated due to ill health in accordance with the constitution. He left behind no directives or last will. He was laid to rest at the “Freedom Martyrs Memorial” section in the yard of the mausoleum of Atatürk. His body was transferred on 27 August 1988 to a permanent burial place in the newly built Turkish State Cemetery. Among all of his achievements and great modesty in his down-to-earth plain demeanor, he tried to place the most emphasis on the need for a well-educated youth and a hard-working population with high standards of ethics for a westernized democratic progress in Atatürk’s tradition (commentary by Imran Oktem, Chief Supreme Court Justice – Yargitay, 1966). His portrait as a statesman and soldier remained next to Atatürk’s in most homes in Turkey for a long time. Erzurum Cemal Gürsel Stadium, some schools and streets were named after him. The developments during his term were described as the “Turkish Revolution” which was celebrated annually on 27 May as the Constitution Day until 1981. In 2002, a commemorative coin was released for the same. In 2008, the movie The Cars of Revolution was released in his memory. I took over the administration of the state to stop the tragic course of events. (Cemal Gürsel, radio address on the evening of 27 May 1960). The network was ready. I personally did not want the army to intervene and had been stopping the attempts (of takeover) of my younger friends. Now my only goal is to reinstate an administration built on the principles of justice and ethics. Cemal Gürsel, An interview. Cumhuriyet, 16 July 1960. Those who follow Atatürk will not be left behind. (Cemal Gürsel, from the address on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Atatürk’s death, 10 November 1963). General Gursel may be described as the father of the second Turkish Republic similar to Atatürk being the father of modern Turkey. At a time of deep division, Gursel earned and maintained the respect of the Turkish Nation that regarded him as the symbol of national unity. When he passed away, he had the identity of the trusted father of the nation. Bernard Lewis, 15 September 1966. A few days before the coup, it was known that the coup was imminent but General Cemal Gursel was dismissed as a non-political general. No leading role by General Cemal Gursel was determined despite the foreknowledge of the plot. The CIA; The Inside Story by Andrew Tully, pages 51, 53. On 27 May, he (Cemal Gursel) was hurriedly requested to come (from his residence in Izmir) to the capital (Ankara) to assume the leadership of National Unity Committee. The Turkish Revolution, Aspects of Military politics. The Brookings Institution, 1963. When 27 May revolt occurred, Cemal Gürsel was not a participant. He was invited to become the head due to the circumstances and he willingly accepted. (Burhan Felek, Milliyet, Page 2, 18 September 1971). General Gürsel was brought into the NUC chairmanship by the revolution team when he was in retirement preparation. In actuality he was in the position of a chairman found in last minute with a hurried search. He never was the responsible leader for a true leader is not to be appointed but is self-appointed. (By a leading member of the NUC). One of the core players of the coup, Orhan Erkanli told that they revolted on 27 May without knowing what to do on 28 May. No one, including Cemal Gürsel knew who and how many would be forming the NUC. In actuality, even Cemal Gürsel was brought in later. Years of Ismet Pasha of our Democracy, 1960-61 by Metin Toker, page 25. It is now known that the coup was the result of years of planning on the part of conspirators, a number of radical colonels and ranks below in their early forties. He (Cemal Gürsel) was not involved in the details of the organization of the coup d’état. When the coup had succeeded, he was brought to Ankara. Turkey, A modern History by Erik Zurcher. We just see that a few very important lines in his letter (to the Minister of Defence) had been censored. That means we are going without learning the true history, without knowing who knows what facts and what true pictures of turning points. (Çetin Altan, Author, Journalist, September 2006). An extremely important document that sheds light on the past has been revealed. Testimony from eyewitnesses at the time helped make known that the letter had been modified after 27 May, but the location of the original letter was unknown. This important document adds a new dimension to the 27 May revolution. We have come face to face with a new document that changes our written history. It was my greatest wish to obtain just such a document; not for my own satisfaction, but for my father, to prove this reality and obtain genuine evidence. I was thrilled when I heard about this. (Mr Aydin Menderes, Author, the Son of Prime Minister Adnan Menderes, September 2006). Adnan Menderes was hung against the regulations. The revolution tribunal’s chief prosecutor Altay Egesel conducted the execution despite not being authorized. Ismet Inönü and Cemal Gürsel were already phoning for him (Adnan Menderes) not to be executed but the telecommunications’ office cut off the lines and Egesel made use of the (communication) gap to conduct the execution. Mehmet Feyyat, District Attorney General, Istanbul Province Prosecutor General 1961, The Administrator of the Imrali Prison, The Lawyer of the Year, Senator. (Reported by Özkan GÜVEN, STAR Newspaper, 13 November 2006 with a summary in Turkish at Law in the Capitol). Where are we now and where are the nations such as Portugal, Greece and Spain with whom we departed for the competition of development in 1960s? In one word, an embarrassment. (Hasan Cemal, Milliyet, October 2006). We built an automobile with the mentality of the West and we forgot to put gasoline in it with the mentality of the East. (Cemal Gürsel, President, on the Anniversary of the Turkish Republic, 29 October 1963). 1962 attempted coup in Turkey. “Çankaya’nin First Lady’leri”. Retrieved 14 February 2019. “Transport of Cemal Gürsel’s body to the State Cemetery” (in Turkish). Press Agency of the Turkish Government website. Retrieved 12 November 2006. Song of The Pharaohs – The Kings of the East and the West. Analysis of political scene on 26 May 1960, research article (in Turkish). General Gursel hosting HM Queen Elizabeth’s first visit to Turkey, Ankara, 1961[permanent dead link]. The full translated text of Cemal Gursel’s letter The research copy of the Turkish original. Cemal Gursel’s Memorandum Revealed. His video and photographs at the President’s Web Page. Cemal Gursel with Vice President Lyndon Johnson in Ankara, 1962 (Anatolian Agency Album). 60’s video montage. Presidential Messages search Cemal Gursel. Text of Ankara Agreement. The movie “The Cars of Revolution”. His photos in LIFE Magazine[permanent dead link]. Video footage of massacres and offensives against Turkish Community. Cable from US Embassy reflecting collective efforts of Cemal Gursel, Ismet Inonu and his entire cabinet and Gen Cevdet Sunay to stop executions. Commander of the Third Army. Commander of the Turkish Army. Minister of National Defense. Prime Minister of Turkey. The 1962 attempted coup in Turkey (also known as the February 22 Incident) was led by the Commander of the Turkish Military Academy, Staff Colonel tr:Talat Aydemir and his associates, who were opposed to the democratically elected government in Turkey. [1][2][3] Despite taking control of much of Ankara, the coup leaders quickly realised they could not prevail and surrendered without any loss of life occurring. Talat Aydemir went on to lead a further coup attempt in 1963. The Armed Forces Union. June – July 1961. January – February 1962. False alarm, 20 February 1962. Nevertheless there were groups of junior officers who felt that the direction taken by the MBK was wrong, particularly after it had dismissed “the fourteen” hardline coup supporters on 13 November 1960. Following the dismissal of the fourteen hardliners, the High Command continued to steadily remove officers whom it regarded as unreliable, and to make new appointments of those who would not oppose the return to democracy. While the process of handing over power from the army to the civilian authorities was underway, there were several indications of growing dissent. [7][8] One was the creation of the Armed Forces Union (Turkish: Silahli Kuvvetler Birligi) late in 1960 as a voice for officers pressing for a more radical policy. Its membership and aims were unclear and its existence at the time was little known outside the armed forces themselves. [5]:139[9][6]. Tension between the MBK and the Armed Forces Union first became public in June 1961, when airforce commander Irfan Tansel was removed from his military post and sent to Washington DC as an adviser to Turkey’s military mission. There were rumours of a number of other dismissals and appointments, and Talat Aydemir was one of a group of officers who met in Ankara to agree a six-point protocol which they sent to the General Staff, demanding the reinstatement of Tansel, the cancellation of other dismissals and promotions, and no future interference from the MBK in military appointments. [9] A squadron of jet fighters flew over Ankara to emphasise the seriousness of the Armed Forces Union’s intentions. Faced with this show of determination, the MBK agreed to the demands of the Armed Forces Union, but decided to also to issue a statement, through the General Staff, to all members of the armed forces. This statement, issued on 28 June 1961, offered assurances that the planned civilian regime would not be able to take action against the coup leaders of 1960, and that the sentences of the Yassiada trials would be carried out promptly. In July, the junior officers’ concerns were increased when, in the referendum, the new military-approved constitution was only approved by 61.7% of voters. [12] Following this, on 25 August 1961 members of the Armed Forces Union were required to swear an oath to support the work of the MBK. Prime Minister Ismet Inönü (1964). In the October 1961 elections the Republican People’s Party failed to win an outright majority and incoming prime minister Ismet Inönü was obliged to form a coalition government with the newly formed Justice Party, which effectively reconstituted the Democrat Party that had been removed from power by the 1960 coup. [13] Overall, the majority of votes had gone to parties that claimed to be successors of the Democrats. The general election result prompted Talat Aydemir and his associates to begin mobilising their supporters to use force to prevent the return to civilian rule. [14][15]:178 On 21 October 1961 a large meeting was held at the Turkish Military Academy in Istanbul, following which 10 Generals and 28 Colonels signed what became known as the October Protocol. [9][6] According to this protocol, the military was to intervene before the newly elected Grand National Assembly of Turkey was convened – no later than 25 October 1961. However, those who signed it had no means of implementing it without the active support of senior officers. Instead of supporting the junior officers, the army High Command intervened to oblige the leaders of the four largest parties to sign the Çankaya Protocol, guaranteeing the continuation of the reforms instituted after the coup, granting immunity to those who had led it, and agreeing not to stand any candidates for the presidency against Cemal Gürsel. [6][17][18]:62 The junior officers were unable to do anything to prevent the recently-elected coalition government from taking power. Once the civilian government was installed, the concerns of Aydemir and his colleagues seemed well-founded. Politicians who had been removed from office by the 1960 coup were preparing to make a rapid return to public life: the newly formed Justice Party began examining possible grounds for the pardon of those still held in detention after the Yassiada trials. A particular flashpoint was the funeral of the Democrat Party’s Minister of National Education, Tevfik Ileri which saw young people protesting against the coup for the first time and demanding the release of political prisoners. A grouping of military officers known as the “Extended Command Council” (Turkish: Genisletilmis Komuta Konseyi) met at the General Staff Headquarters on 19 January 1962 to discuss a proposal from Chief of the General Staff Cevdet Sunay that they should abandon any thought of staging a military intervention and instead rally behind the government of Ismet Inönü. The Generals and Commanders at that meeting supported Sunay’s proposal but Talat Aydemir and the Colonels who attended stated that they did not agree and that a military intervention was necessary. However, without the support of the Generals, especially the Chief of the General Staff, they would have been acting outside the chain of command if they tried to move on their own. Prime Minister Inönü decided to try and defuse the tensions within the army by visiting military units in Istanbul and Ankara. He first visited the 66th Division Command and the War Academies in Istanbul. At the units he went to, he advised the officers to remain calm and patient, making clear that he did not support any action by them. [19] This undermined the plans of those officers who believed that they should seize power in order to offer him their support. On February 5, 1962, he went to visit the Military Academy in Ankara, and no one received him other than the commanders and the inspection unit. On 9 February Lieutenant General tr:Refik Tulga convened a meeting in Balmumcu, Istanbul, that was attended by 59 officers. Thirty seven of those attending, including Talat Aydemir, agreed on the need to carry out a military intervention before 28 February. [6][19][21] Cevdet Sunay however refused to support overthrowing the government as long as Inönü, Atatürk’s deputy, remained prime minister. Instead, Sunay alerted Inönü to what Talat Aydemir and the other junior officers were planning. On February 18, 1962, Sunay also summoned the Corps Commanders of the 1st Army, the Governor of Istanbul, Lieutenant General Refik Tulga, the Commander of the War Academies Brigadier General tr:Faruk Güventürk and the Commander of the War Fleet to Ankara. These generals had previously met with Talat Aydemir and other radical colonels, and made clear that they would not agree to support a new coup. On February 19, 1962, Sunay also summoned Talat Aydemir, Necati Ünsalan and Selçuk Atakan to the General Staff Headquarters. Air Force Commander Irfan Tansel, Land Forces Commander Muhittin Önür and Gendarmerie General Commander Abdurrahman Doruk Pasha were waiting for them here, but they were still unable to persuade the colonels to give up their plans. [9] There now seemed no alternative but for the government and the High Command to take action against them. Rumours began to spread through the army that Talat Aydemir and his associates were going to stage their coup on the night of February 20-21. In response, officers in the Etimesgut Armored Units School First Armoured Division Tank Battalion placed their troops on alert. Likewise, sections of the 229th Infantry Regiment and the Guard Regiment also prepared to join the coup. By the following morning it was clear that the rumour was unfounded. Cevdet Sunay was enraged when he heard what had happened the previous night. He summoned Talat Aydemir and two other officers to General Staff Headquarters and advised them that they would immediately be transferred to new posts away from the capital, although Aydemir denied any wrongdoing or involvement in the previous night’s events. At a meeting of the General Staff later on February 21, and orders were given for the transfer of officers causing unrest to units in the East. The list of names included including Selçuk Atakan, Emin Arat, Ihsan Erkan, Haldun Doran and Sükrü Ilkin (commander of the Presidential Guard Regiment) as well as Talat Aydemir[20][22]. When Aydemir learned that the transfer order had been issued, he gathered about 600 recent graduates of the Military Academy and made a speech to them at 3pm, explaining the events of recent days. In his speech, Aydemir said. The 1960 coup failed to reach its goal. Parliament is not working. The army is being criticised. Now commanders are sent East to break up the forces at the ready. Our plans are ready, the army is with us. Our password is’Halaskar’ and our sign is’Fedailer’… If this action does not succeed, I will commit suicide. [13][4][19]. The expressions chosen as passwords and signs alluded to Enver Pasha and the 1913 Ottoman coup d’état that took place outside the chain of command. The graduates agreed to support him and prepared to fight. The units that had responded to the false rumour on 19th February did not join in this time, as they had new officers in command. Nevertheless Aydemir sent tanks from Military Academy towards the Turkish Grand National Assembly. The government placed anti-tank guns around the building. Soldiers from the barracks in Polatli and Çubuk were called in to help break the siege, but all of the battalions called to suppress the coup sided with Talat Aydemir and declared their loyalty to him. On the morning of 22 February the battalion guarding the parliament building went over to the rebels units loyal to Aydemir were effectively in control of central Ankara, including the radio station. [21] Critically however, the Air Force remained loyal to the government, and this was to prove decisive. With unchallenged air superiority, Ismet Inönü’s government made preparations to bomb the Army War College with jets from the Murted airbase. Aydemir and his colleagues announced their aims as the dissolution of the Grand National Assembly, the resignation of the government and the passing of the administration to them through the suspension of the Constitution. At noon on February 22 Cihat Alpan was appointed to replace Sükrü Ilkin as commander of the Presidential Guard Regiment protecting the Çankaya Mansion. However, the cavalry group of the Guard Regiment under Major Fethi Gürcan detained Alpan and then found itself in control of President Cemal Gürsel, Prime Minister Inönü and several other ministers, Chief of General Staff Sunay and the force commanders, who were meeting inside the mansion at that time. [4] [23] Gürcan contacted Talat Aydemir and asked permission to arrest them all. Aydemir refused because he did not want his action to be seen as a coup, so he ordered Gürcan to release them all. [4] As he left the mansion, Inönü smiled and said Now they have lost. As soon as he left the Çankaya mansion, Inönü headed for the Airforce Command Building, where he met other party leaders as well as the Airforce commanders. The government’s plan was now for President Gürsel and Prime Minister Inönü to make conciliatory speeches over the radio to try and de-escalate the situation. Mediation was established through Ekrem Alican, the leader of the New Turkey Party and a relative of Talat Aydemir, but this made little progress. Cemal Gürsel departed for Murted air base. When Fethi Gürcan seized the radio’s transmitting station in Etimesgut with his troops, Inönü’s broadcasts stopped, but he was able to resume his addresses through the transmitter at Ankara Esenboga Airport a few hours later. In his messages, Inönü stressed that providing no blood was shed, Aydemir and the other soldiers supporting the coup would not be punished. He refused however to consider any of the demands the coup leaders had made. It became clear to Aydemir that no further units were intending to join him, that his forces were surrounded, and that the government, political parties and High Command were steadily regaining the upper hand. He ordered the tanks in central Ankara to withdraw. [21] On the evening of 22 February, the jets of the Air Force began to fly low over the Military Academy. At 1am in the morning of 23 February, Inönü sent Aydemir a written note confirming that there would be no punishments if he and his followers gave up. Shortly afterwards Aydemir called on his followers to lay down their arms and return to barracks while he himself surrendered. When Inönü entered the Grand National Assembly on February 23, he was given an unprecedented standing ovation from deputies of all parties, who expressed their gratitude and confidence in the armed forces. The students of the Military Academy were given a week’s early leave and the school was temporarily closed and Semih Sancar was appointed to head it in place of Talat Aydemir. Aydemir, Emin Arat, Dündar Seyhan and Turgut Alpagut were kept under guard for a while, but there were no arrests. Fourteen officers were transferred while Aydemir and 22 others were retired from the army. [14] Aydemir was arrested not for the attempted coup but for insulting Ismet Inönü and as detained in prison for just 9 days. [13] Inönü’s conciliatory approach avoided holding a number of trials that would have caused discord and embarrassment to a government working to restore calm and order following the return to civilian rule. Indeed, on 22 April Inönü managed to persuade the Turkish Grand National Assembly to pass an amnesty law that allowed them to return to the ranks. [24] There was a political cost – in return for agreeing to amnesty the coup officers, the Justice Party demanded the early release of Democrat Party prisoners held in Kayseri prison since the 1960 coup. In fact the attempted coup, the pardon debates and the ensuing the party conflicts overwhelmed Inönü, who resigned on 30 May 1962. Talat Aydemir continued to oppose the return to civilian rule and gave many interviews sharing his views in the months after his release. On May 20, 1963 he led a second attempted coup, and after this he was arrested, sentenced to death and executed. Gursel’s father was an officer of the Ottoman army so after the middle school he was graduated from Kuleli military highschool in Istanbul. He was even captured as a prisoner of war by the British for two years during a campaign in Palestine. He served in the army a total of 45 years. In 1958 Cemal Gursel became the commander of Turkish ground forces as a four-star general. Due to a memorandum he sent to the Minister of Defence, expressing his views on Adnan Menderes who, according to Gursel, should become the next president, he was suspended from his post and forced for an early retirement. But, since he was a popular army figure, he was chosen as the leader of a military coup on 27th of May 1960 run by young army officers, which overthrew the government of Adnan Menderes. After the military court on Yassiada island, Gursel tried to stop the execution of Menderes on Imrali island, but no avail. Cemal Gürsel resisted attempts to continue military rule. He was elected as the fourth President of the Republic in 1961 and played an important role in the preparation of a new Constitution and return back to the democracy after the coup. Because of his illness which progressed quickly and took him into a coma, his presidency was terminated by the Parliament, and then he was succeeded by Cevdet Sunay on March of 1966. Cemal Gursel died of apoplexy on September 14th of the same year, in Ankara. He’s now buried at the Turkish State Cemetery. Cemal Gürsel was a Turkish army officer, and the fourth President of Turkey. Cemal Gürsel was born on October 13, 1895 in Erzurum, Turkey. After the elementary school in Ordu and the military middle school in Erzincan, Cemal Gürsel graduated from the Kuleli military high school in Istanbul. He attended the Turkish Military College and graduated in 1929 as a staff officer. Cemal Gürsel served in the Army for 45 years. Cemal Gürsel was kept as a prisoner of war in Egypt until 6 October 1920. Cemal Gürsel was promoted colonel in 1940. The day after the coup, four-star general Cemal Gürsel was declared the commander in chief, Head of state, Prime minister and Minister of Defense of the 24th government on 30 May 1960. Cemal Gürsel freed 200 students and nine newsmen, and licensed 14 banned newspapers to start publishing again. He fetched ten law professors, a law postgraduate student as their assistant, from Istanbul and Ankara Universities to help draft a new constitution on 27 May, right after he arrived in Ankara. Cemal Gürsel hosted the visit of Queen Elizabeth II to Ankara in early 1961 and the visit of the vice president Lyndon Johnson in 1962. President Johnson went by helicopter from the White House to Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, near Washington, D. To pay his respects to President Cemal Gürsel on his departure to home. In addition to issuing the following statement Our distinguished friend, President Cemal Gursel of Turkey, came to the United States on 2 February for medical treatment. A simple and conservative sort, Cemal Gürsel became Turkey’s most popular figure, forbade display of his picture alongside Atatürk’s in government offices, rode about in an open Jeep touring rural communities, talking to the peasants almost as if they were his children. He was successful with his personal interventions in reducing the number of execution verdicts from the Yassiada tribunals from 15 down to three. Cemal Gürsel promoted the grant of the freedom of and the legal rights to form unions and to go on strike in the country. Cemal Gürsel initiated the new era of planned economy in Turkey, formed a State Institute of Statistics, launched the State Planning Organization (DPT) that implemented “The First 5-Years Development Plan”, arranged re-entry of the Turkish Republic in the United Nations Security Council in 1961 and moved Turkey, through his close and personal diplomatic dialogues with Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer, into the direction of European Union membership with the Ankara Agreement, signed with France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Italy and Luxembourg in 1963, resulting in associate membership the following year and a large Turkish workforce migration to Germany and Western Europe to assist their postwar industrial development. Cemal Gürsel, 40 years after the foundation of the Republic, launched the first radio broadcasting station of Eastern Anatolia within the centrally located province of Erzurum, where Ankara and Istanbul radios’ transmissions were not received. Cemal Gürsel added the first Ministry of Culture and Tourism to the cabinet. Quotations: I took over the administration of the state to stop the tragic course of events. Cemal Gürsel, as an easy-going and fatherly figure with a fine sense of humor, was well liked both nationally and in NATO circles, and had earned the respect and confidence of both the nation and the armed forces with his professional knowledge and demeanor. Quotes from others about the person. Professor Bernard Lewis: General Gursel may be described as the father of the second Turkish Republic similar to Atatürk being the father of modern Turkey. Cemal Gürsel was married, in 1927, to Melahat, the daughter of the chief engineer on the Ottoman cruiser Hamidiye. Cemal Gürsel was born in Erzurum in 1895. After receiving primary education in Ordu, he continued his education as a military student in Erzincan and Istanbul. Cemal Bey who participated in the Çanakkale (Dardanelles) Battle between 1915 and 1917 as an Artillery Officer also took part on the Syrian and Palestinian fronts of the World War I. He fought in all the Western fronts of the War of Independence. After graduating from the Military Academy in 1929, he was appointed as the Commander of the Land Forces in 1958. He resigned from the military on 3 May 1960 and left for Izmir. Immediately after the military coup on 27 May 1960, he headed the National Unity Committee that was formed by the military. After the execution of the former Prime Minister Adnan Menderes and two of his ministers in the aftermath of the military coup, he played an important role in the formation of the new Constitution and transition to democracy again. In accordance with the Constitution that was approved in a referendum, he was elected as the fourth President of Turkey by the Turkish Grand National Assembly (TBMM) that was formed in the 10 October 1961 elections. Due to the deterioration in his health conditions in 1966, his Presidency was terminated by the TBMM in accordance with the Constitution. Cemal Gürsel who got married to Melahat Hanim in 1927 and had a child with her died on 14 September 1966. Military man, statesman, 4th president of Republic of Turkey. June 10th, 1895, Erzurum – D. September 14th, 1966, Ankara. The son of a military family, he studied the primary school in Ordu. After completing the secondary school in Erzincan; he studied at Istanbul Kuleli Military High School. During his senior year, the 1st World War began. Because of the war, his education was interrupted on October 16th, 1914 and he started to serve in 4th Army Command as lieutenant. He fought in the Battle of Dardanelles between 1915 and 1917 as the artillery officer. He was on the battles on the Palestine and Syrian fronts. He participated in almost all the battles on the Western Front during the Independence War. He got promotion and became the captain on 1st September 1922. He entered War Academy on 1st October 1926 and graduated as a staff officer in 1929. In 1927, he married Melahat Hanim and they had one son, Muzaffer. Starting from 1946, he was promoted to the Brigadier General and undertook commands of divisions, corps and the army. In 1958, he was promoted to the rank of General and became the Commander of the Land Forces. Before the May 27th 1960 Revolution; while he was still a Commander of the Land Forces; he visited Ethem Menderes, who was the Minister of Defense on 2nd May 1960. During his visit, he reflected his personal views to the Minister of Defense, accordingly to the government, expressing his support to the Prime Minister Adnan Menderes and a letter reflecting his belief that the Prime Minister should replace the President. This resulted in his suspension from his post, forcing an early retirement on 3rd May 1960. A farewell letter by him, advocating and urging the army to stay out of politics, was forwarded to all units of the armed forces at the time of his departure on leave for Izmir. After the coup d’état on 27 May 1960, which was organized and conducted by army officers at the rank of colonels and below, Cemal Gürsel, was chosen as the chairman of the military coup and by the National Unity Committee. During his position, he survived an assassination attempt, but he was wounded. He and other 13 members of the National Unity Committee, including Türkes, were sent to abroad for an official duty. While he was the chairman of National Unity Committee, he launched the Erzurum Radio. Gürsel directed the retired general Ragip Gümüspala to bring the Demokrat Party members together to form the Adalet Party. By virtue of the 1961 Constitution, which was prepared by the Constituent Assembly and presented for a referendum held on 10th October 1961, he was nominated and gained the majority of the votes at Turkish Grand National Assembly to be the fourth president of Turkey on 21st October 1961. He initiated the new era of planned economy in Turkey and formed a State Institute of Statistics, launched the State Planning Organization. He promoted the legal rights to form unions, to go on strike in the country and to enact the law of collective bargaining. The establishment of National Security Council (MIT), the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the School of Press and Broadcasting were established during his presidency. He also paved the way for the planning to develop the Southeastern Turkey, the formation of Turkish Radio and Television Association (TRT) (1964), the first use of a computer in the country, the establishment of the first State Research Library, as well as the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) along with many other “firsts”. The production of the first domestic Turkish automobile, “Devrim” T. Revolution, took place with Cemal Gürsel’s directive. Because of a disease that started in 1966, Cemal Gürsel was sent abroad. In accordance with the Constitution, the Grand National Assembly of Turkey ruled that his presidency be terminated due to his ill health on 28th March 1966. When he died, he was laid to rest at the “Freedom Martyrs Memorial” section in the yard of the Atatürk’s mausoleum. His body was later transferred to the Turkish State Cemetery. Excelling in the battles of the Final Offensive, he was awarded the Medal of Independence. A documentary film was made about him by because of the manufacture of the “Devrim” automobile. On 27 May 1960, General Cemal Gürsel led a coup d’etat that removed President Celal Bayar, prime minister Adnan Menderes, and his cabinet from power and dissolved the parliament. Several members of the Menderes government were charged with various crimes ranging from misuse of public funds to abrogation of the Constitution and high treason. Arraigned before a joint civilian – military tribunal, a number of those charged were sentenced to prison terms and former Premier Menderes was executed along with two other ministers. The 1960 coup occurred against a backdrop of escalating tension between the government and opposition that threatened to erupt into civil war. First elected in 1950, Menderes built on the liberalization measures that followed Atatürk’s death in 1938, including a relaxation of laws that restricted the role of minorities and Islam. Confronted with strong Kemalist opposition, the government repeatedly passed legislation designed to restrict freedom of the press to print material “designed to damage the political or financial prestige of the state” or “belittling persons holding official positions”. By 1959, growing hostilities between government and opposition supporters fuelled by a polarization of public opinion led to violent clashes. In April 1960, a series of large-scale student demonstrations paralyzed university campuses and led to bloody confrontations with police forces. The imposition of martial law in Istanbul and Ankara on 1st of May and the confinement of demonstrators in detention camps failed to restore civil order. Although public unrest had been growing over the previous year, the trigger for the coup appears to have been the 1st of May decision to use the armed forces in an effort to regain control of the situation. While some senior officers supported the government, Istanbul’s martial law commander announced that his troops were authorized to fire on “even the smallest public assembly” – others were not united behind this policy. One week after the declaration of martial law, the commander of land forces, General Gürsel, was placed on a compulsory leave of absence. In his farewell message, Gürsel urged his troops to steel themselves against the greedy political atmosphere now blowing through the country. Such sentiments were clearly shared by others as well. Former President and Atatürk’s colleague, Ismet Inönü, warned that “an oppressive regime can never be sure of the army”. In a 27 May broadcast, Cemal Gürsel rejected dictatorship and announced that the government had been overthrown to help establish an honest and just democratic order and to give over the administration of the state into the hands of the nation. In a press conference on 28 May, Gürsel emphasized that the purpose and the aim of the coup is to bring the country with all speed to a fair, clean and solid democracy… I want to transfer power and the administration of the nation to the free choice of the people. That same day, the military-dominated cabinet issued a policy statement promising respect for human rights and the abolition of all laws contrary to the Kemalist tradition. The military dominated the political scene until October 1965. During that time, a series of conservative coalition government led by former President Inönü held office. When free elections were once again permitted, Süleyman Demirel led his Justice Party (Adalet Parti – AP) to victory. Demirel remained in office until the Turkish military forced his resignation in March 1971. This item is in the category “Collectibles\Autographs\Historical”. The seller is “memorabilia111″ and is located in this country: US. 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1989 Music Contract Signed Rare Nbc Autograph Cyril Neville Today Show

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1989 Music Contract Signed Rare Nbc Autograph Cyril Neville Today Show

1989 Music Contract Signed Rare Nbc Autograph Cyril Neville Today Show
A GUEST CONTRACT FOR TODAY SHOW. SIGNED BY MUSIC LEGEND. ON 8.5X11 INCH PAPER. Cyril Garrett Neville is an American percussionist and vocalist who first came to prominence as a member of his brother Art Neville’s funky New Orleans-based band, The Meters. He joined Art in the Neville Brothers band upon the dissolution of the Meters. Cyril Garrett Neville (born October 10, 1948) is an American percussionist and vocalist who first came to prominence as a member of his brother Art Neville’s funky New Orleans-based band, The Meters. He has appeared on recordings by Bob Dylan, Robbie Robertson, Edie Brickell, Willie Nelson, Dr. John and The New Orleans Social Club among others. Neville wrote an article for the December 16, 2005 edition of CounterPunch, [1] titled “Why I’m Not Going Back To New Orleans” and was featured in the 2006 documentary film New Orleans Music in Exile. After Hurricane Katrina he moved to Austin, Texas, but as of 2012 lives in Slidell, Louisiana. [citation needed] Soul Rebels Brass Band featured Neville as a special guest on their Rounder Records debut record, Unlock Your Mind, released on January 31, 2012. The Soul Rebels’ name was conceived by Neville at the New Orleans venue Tipitina’s, where the band was opening. In 2005, Neville joined up with Tab Benoit for the Voice of the Wetlands Allstars to bring awareness to Louisiana’s rapid loss of wetlands along the Gulf Coast. The band also features Waylon Thibodeaux, Johnny Sansone, Anders Osborne, Monk Boudreaux, George Porter, Jr. Johnny Vidacovich, and Dr. The band has become a main feature at the annual New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. In 2010, Neville joined popular New Orleans funk band Galactic. He put aside his solo career to tour internationally with the band. In 2012, Cyril Neville joined forces with Devon Allman (son of Gregg Allman of The Allman Brothers Band), award-winning blues-rock guitarist Mike Zito, bassist Charlie Wooton, and Grammy-winning drummer Yonrico Scott to form Royal Southern Brotherhood, a blues-rock supergroup. “Cyril Neville may be the youngest of the Neville Brothers, the first family of New Orleans rock and R&B, but he has just made his best album”. “A refreshingly original approach to the music” (1/2) – Chicago Sun-Times[6]. 1994: The Fire This Time (Endangered Species) The Uptown Allstars. 1998: Soulo (Endangered Species) Cyril solo. 2000: New Orleans Cookin’ (Endangered Species) Cyril solo. 2003: For The Funk Of It (Kongo Square) The Uptown Allstars. 2007: The Healing Dance (Jomar/Silk) Tribe 13. 2009: Brand New Blues M. 2012: Royal Southern Brotherhood (RUF) Royal Southern Brotherhood. 2012: Live in Germany (RUF) Royal Southern Brotherhood. 2013: Magic Honey (RUF) Cyril solo. 2014: Heartsoulblood (RUF) Royal Southern Brotherhood. 2015: Don’t look back (RUF) Royal Southern Brotherhood. As a member of the Neville Brothers, Cyril won the 1989 Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance for the song “Healing Chant”. In 1996, he and his brothers were nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals for the song “Fire on the Mountain”. They were also nominated for the 1999 Grammy Award for Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance for the album Valence Street. In 2014, Neville (as a solo) was nominated for a Blues Music Award in the’Contemporary Blues Album of the Year’ category for his album Magic Honey. Would I go back to live? And the situation for musicians was a joke. People thought there was a New Orleans music scene – there wasn’t. You worked two times a year: Mardi Gras and Jazz Fest. The only musicians I knew who made a living playing music in New Orleans were Kermit Ruffins and Pete Fountain. Everyone else had to have a day job or go on tour. I have worked more in two months in Austin than I worked in two years in New Orleans. A lot of things about life in New Orleans were a myth. I lived in the Gentilly neighborhood. I cannot live under 6 feet of water. In the 9th Ward and Gentilly they are going to do mass buyouts, bulldoze everything and make it green space. In my estimation, those are golf courses and other places where African-American people won’t be welcome. There’s nothing wrong with my house except that water destroyed everything we had in it. The foundation is fine. The house is still there. Same thing with our neighbors. So what are they talking bulldozing? For a lot of us, the storm is still happening. Up until the storm, Aaron, myself, Art and Kermit Ruffins were some of the only musicians who had’made it’ who were still living in New Orleans. Now you got cats that come down there every now and then to be king of a parade or whatever. They couldn’t find helicopters to get people off of roofs, but they found helicopters to bring certain people in for photo ops. I’m not mad at anybody, but at the same time we put a lot into that city and never got what I think we should have got out of it. Now I’ve landed in Austin. New Orleans and Austin musicians have had an affinity for each other’s groove for a long time, going back to my days with the Meters when we played Armadillo World Headquarters in Austin. On any given night we would end up with five or six guitar players onstage with us, be it the Winter brothers [Edgar and Johnny] or the Vaughan brothers. Gaynielle Neville and I now appear in a weekly Tuesday set called “New Orleans Cookin’ & Jukin’ ” at Threadgill’s in Austin. Gaynielle cooks red beans and gumbo, and we perform with their group Tribe 13, which includes Austin vocalist Papa Mali. The way we have been accepted in Austin is such a pleasant surprise, We were treated like family. I linked up with the Guthrie family about 18 months ago. I was looking for songs for an upcoming solo album and discovered the Native American rock band Blackfire. They had recorded Arlo’s Mean Things Are Happening in This World. That song jumped out at me, so I did my version. For years I have wondered how can I get in contact with Arlo and Willie Nelson – people who have the same kind of attitude and consciousness I have and who want to use their art the same way I’m trying to use mine. I got that consciousness from Woody Guthrie. People are talking to me, but some of the people I know went through much more than I did. There are 3,000 children missing in New Orleans. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children places the figure at 1,300. Hundreds of bodies are waiting to be identified. The people of New Orleans have been scattered to the four winds. Their lives were determined by people in Washington and Baton Rouge before the storm hit. The 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th Wards should have their own tourist commission. Build our own hotels and restaurants in those areas. The key is ownership. Then I would think about going back and living there. But we’re still practicing American democracy. How can we ever bring it to somebody else? The Meters are an American funk band formed in 1965 in New Orleans by Zigaboo Modeliste (drums), George Porter Jr. (bass), Leo Nocentelli (guitar) and Art Neville (keyboards). The band performed and recorded their own music from the late 1960s until 1977 and played an influential role as backing musicians for other artists, including Lee Dorsey, Robert Palmer, Dr. John, and Allen Toussaint. Their original songs “Cissy Strut” and “Look-Ka Py Py” are considered funk classics. While they rarely enjoyed significant mainstream success, they are considered originators of funk along with artists like James Brown, and their work is influential on many other bands, both their contemporaries and modern musicians. [2][3] Their sound is defined by a combination of tight melodic grooves and syncopated New Orleans “second line” rhythms under highly charged guitar and keyboard riffing. [4][5] The band has been nominated four times for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, most recently in 2017. [6] In 2018 the band was presented with the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. The Meters/The Original Meters/The Meter Men. Art Neville, the group’s frontman, launched a solo career around the New Orleans area in the mid-1950s while still in high school. The Meters formed in 1965 with a line-up of keyboardist and vocalist Art Neville, guitarist Leo Nocentelli, bassist George Porter Jr. And drummer Joseph “Zigaboo” Modeliste. They were later joined by percussionist-vocalist Cyril Neville. The Meters became the house band for Allen Toussaint and his record label, Sansu Enterprises. In 1969 the Meters released “Sophisticated Cissy” and “Cissy Strut”, both major R&B chart hits. “Look-Ka Py Py” and “Chicken Strut” were their hits the following year. After a label shift in 1972, the Meters had difficulty returning to the charts, but they worked with Dr. John, Paul McCartney, King Biscuit Boy, Labelle, Robert Palmer and others. In 1975 Paul McCartney invited the Meters to play at the release party for his Venus and Mars album aboard the Queen Mary in Long Beach, California. Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones was in attendance at the event and was greatly taken with the Meters and their sound. [2](p166)[9] The Rolling Stones invited the band to open for them on their Tour of the Americas’75 and Tour of Europe’76. [4] That same year, the Meters recorded one of their most successful albums, Fire on the Bayou. From 1976 to 77 they played in The Wild Tchoupitoulas with George and Amos Landry and The Neville Brothers. Art and Cyril Neville left the band in early 1977, but The Meters still appeared on Saturday Night Live on March 19, 1977, during the show’s second season. After the Nevilles’ departure, David Batiste Sr. Took over on keyboards while Willie West joined as the band’s lead singer. Porter left the group later that year and by 1980 The Meters had officially broken up. After the break-up, Neville continued his career as part of The Neville Brothers, Modeliste toured with Keith Richards and Ron Wood, while Nocentelli and Porter became in-demand session players and formed new bands. In 1989 Art Neville, George Porter Jr. And Leo Nocentelli reunited as The Meters, adding drummer Russell Batiste Jr. To replace Zigaboo Modeliste. Nocentelli left the group in 1994 and was replaced with guitarist Brian Stoltz, formerly of The Neville Brothers. The band was renamed The Funky Meters. They were referred to as “the Funky Meters” as early as 1989. They were billed as such when playing in a tiny venue called Benny’s Bar at Valence and Camp streets. The Funky Meters continued to play into the 2000s with Stoltz being replaced by Art Neville’s son, Ian Neville, from 2007 to 2011 while he went to pursue a solo career. In 2000 a big offer enticed all four original Meters to reunite for a one-night stand at the Warfield Theatre in San Francisco; by this time Modeliste wanted to make the reunion a permanent one, but the other members and their management teams objected. [10] It wasn’t until Quint Davis, producer and director of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, got them to “put aside their differences and hammer out the details” and perform at the Festival in 2005. In June 2011 The Original Meters along with Allen Toussaint and Dr. John played the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Manchester, Tennessee. The six men performed Dr. The Original Meters also played a set at the 2011 Voodoo Experience in New Orleans. In late 2012, Zigaboo Modeliste, Leo Nocentelli, and George Porter Jr. Played concerts with Phish keyboardist Page McConnell under the name The Meter Men. [14] During his time off from Phish, Page McConnell has continued to play with Porter Jr. Nocentelli, and Modeliste under the moniker of The Meter Men since those shows in 2012. The Meter Men had performed 16 shows together as of spring 2015, with their third annual appearance as a late night act during New Orleans’ Jazz and Heritage Festival. [15][16] In 2014, during The Meter Men’s second appearance as a late night act during Jazzfest, the band performed at The Republic on April 26, 2014, after McConnell had headlined the NOLA Jazzfest at the New Orleans Fairgrounds with Phish earlier that day. [17][18] The Meter Men had also played the previous night at The Republic. [19] The states The Meter Men had appeared in as of spring 2015 were Massachusetts, New York, Florida, Pennsylvania, Louisiana, Colorado, and Vermont, with one other performance in Washington, D. As of 2017, The Funky Meters tour consistently performing songs by The Meters, while The Meters perform sporadically. The lineup of Neville, Porter, Nocentelli and Modeliste typically bill themselves as The Original Meters to avoid confusion with The Funky Meters. When not performing with The Original Meters, guitarist Leo Nocentelli leads his own group, The Meters Experience, which also performs the music of The Meters. As of 2018, the most recent performance of the original Meters (with all four of the founding members) took place at the Arroyo Seco Festival in Pasadena, California on June 25, 2017. The song “They All Ask’d for You” from the 1975 album Fire on the Bayou remains popular in the New Orleans region and is the unofficial theme song of the Audubon Zoo. Art Neville announced his retirement from music on December 18, 2018. [25] Neville died on July 22, 2019. “Glen” – drums (1965)[28]. The Meters (1969), Josie JOS-4010 #23 R&B. Look-Ka Py Py (1969), Josie JOS-4011. Struttin’ (1970), Josie JOS-4012. Cabbage Alley (1972), Reprise MS-2076. Rejuvenation (1974), Reprise MS-2200. Fire on the Bayou (1975), Reprise MS-2228. Trick Bag (1976), Reprise MS-2252. New Directions (1977), Warner Bros. Cissy Strut (1974), Island ILPS-9250 [LP]. The Best of The Meters (1975), Virgo SV-12002 [LP]. Second Line Strut (1980), Charly R&B CRB-1009 [LP]. Here Come The Metermen (1986), Charly R&B CRB-1112 [LP]. Struttin’ (1987), Charly R&B CD-63. Good Old Funky Music (1990), Rounder CD-2104[30]. Funky Miracle (1991), Charly CDNEV-2 [2-CD set]. Meters Jam (1992), Rounder CD-2105. Fundamentally Funky (1994), Charly CPCD-8044. Funkify Your Life: The Meters Anthology (1995), Rhino R2-71869 [2-CD set]. The Best of The Meters (1996), Mardi Gras MG-1029. The Very Best of The Meters (1997), Rhino R2-72642. Kickback (2001), Sundazed LP-5081/SC-11081. Zony Mash (2003), Sundazed LP-5087/SC-6211. Original Album Series (2014), Rhino 081227961565 [5-CD set], reissues: Cabbage Alley, Rejuvenation, Fire on the Bayou, Trick Bag, New Directions. A Message from The Meters: The Complete Josie, Reprise & Warner Bros. Uptown Rulers: The Meters live on the Queen Mary 1975 rel. Live at the Moonwalker (1993), Lakeside Music LAKE-2022 – as’The Legendary Meters. Second Helping (Live at the Moonwalker) (1994), Lakeside Music LAKE-2026 – as’The Legendary Meters. Fiyo at the Fillmore, Volume 1 2001 rel. 2003, Too Funky/Fuel 2000/Varese 030206127522 – as’The Funky Meters. Original Josie (45-rpm) releases. 1001 Sophisticated Cissy // Sehorn’s Farm (1968) US # 34. 1005 Cissy Strut // Here Comes The Meter Man (1969) US # 23. 1008 Ease Back // Ann (1969) US # 61. 1015 Look-Ka Py Py // This Is My Last Affair (1970) US # 56. 1018 Chicken Strut // Hey! Last Minute (1970) US # 50. 1021 Hand Clapping Song // Joog (1970) US # 89. 1024 A Message From The Meters // Zony Mash (1970) [45rpm release only, not on LP] US # 123. 1026 Stretch Your Rubber Band // Groovy Lady (1971) [45rpm release only, not on LP]. 1029 Doodle-Oop (The World Is A Little Bit Under The Weather) // I Need More Time (1971) [45rpm release only, not on LP] US # 124. 1031 Good Old Funky Music // Sassy Lady (1971) [45rpm release only, not on LP]. REP 1086 Do The Dirt // Smiling (1972). REP 1106 Cabbage Alley // The Flower Song (1972). REP 1135 Chug Chug Chug-A-Log (Push N’ Shove), Part 1 // Chug Chug Chug-A-Lug (Push N’ Shove), Part 2 (1972) [45rpm release only, not on LP]. RPS 1307 Hey Pocky A-Way // Africa (1974). RPS 1314 People Say // Loving You Is On My Mind (1974). RPS 1338 They All Ask’d For You // Running Fast (Long Version) (1975) US # 101. RPS 1357 Disco Is The Thing Today // Mister Moon (1976). RPS 1372 Trick Bag // Find Yourself (1976). WBS 8434 Be My Lady // No More Okey Doke (1977) US # 78. US chart is Billboard unless otherwise noted. Cash Box singles chart. Record World singles chart. According to Brian Knight of The Vermont Review, In a sense, the Meters defined the basic characteristics of the groove. While Funkadelic, Cameo, James Brown and Sly Stone are synonymous with funk, these artists look to the Meters for the basic-down to earthy and raw sound. “[32] Music critique Robert Christgau called the band “totally original and placed the compilation album Funkify Your Life: The Meters Anthology on his list of top six New Orleans classics. The Meters’ music has been sampled by musicians around the world, including rap artists Heavy D, LL Cool J and Queen Latifah, Musiq, Big Daddy Kane, Run-DMC, N. A, Ice Cube, Scarface, Cypress Hill, EPMD, Public Enemy, A Tribe Called Quest, Beastie Boys, Naughty by Nature, and Tweet. Red Hot Chili Peppers covered the Meters’ song “Africa”, renamed “Hollywood (Africa)”, on their 1985 album Freaky Styley. The eclectic jazz-fusion guitarist Oz Noy has recorded his version of “Cissy Strut” twice. Bands such as the Grateful Dead, [36] KVHW, Steve Kimock Band, Widespread Panic, [37] Rebirth Brass Band, Galactic, Jaco Pastorius and The String Cheese Incident[38] have performed songs by The Meters in their concert rotations. The Meters’ songs have been used in the films Two Can Play That Game, Jackie Brown, Drumline, Hancock, Calendar Girls, Hitch, Red, The Best of Enemies, The Kitchen, Beerfest and Another Round. [39] The band’s songs were also featured in the television shows The Wire, Ballers and Disjointed as well as the video game Grand Theft Auto IV. In 1970, The Meters were named Best Rhythm and Blues Instrumental Group by both Billboard and Record World magazines. The Meters have been nominated for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame four times since becoming eligible in 1994: 1996, 2012, 2013 and 2017. And The Meters were recipients of the Lifetime Achievement Award at the second annual Jammy Awards in 2001. In 2011, the iconic Meters’ song “Cissy Strut” was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. In 2013, The Meters received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Big Easy Music Awards. The band was featured on the 2017 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival’s commemorative poster. In January 2018, The Meters were honored with a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. The Neville Brothers were an American R&B/soul/funk group, formed in 1977 in New Orleans, Louisiana. 1941, and Cyril b. 1948 came together to take part in the recording session of the Wild Tchoupitoulas, a Mardi Gras Indian group led by the Nevilles’ uncle, George Landry (“Big Chief Jolly”). Their debut album The Neville Brothers was released in 1978 on Capitol Records. In 1987, the group released Uptown on the EMI label, featuring guests including Branford Marsalis, Keith Richards, and Carlos Santana. The following year saw the release of Yellow Moon from A&M Records produced by Daniel Lanois. The track “Healing Chant” from that album won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance at the 1990 Grammy ceremony. In 1990, the Neville Brothers contributed “In the Still of the Night” to the AIDS benefit album Red Hot + Blue produced by the Red Hot Organization. Also in 1990, they appeared on the bill at that year’s Glastonbury Festival. [5] Due to Art Neville devoting more time to his other act, The Meters, the band kept a low profile in the late 1990s onto the early 2000s. They made a comeback in 2004, however, with the album, Walkin’ in the Shadow of Life, on Back Porch Records, their first newly recorded effort in five years. All brothers except Charles, a Massachusetts resident, had been living in New Orleans, but following Hurricane Katrina in 2005 Cyril and Aaron moved out of the city. Infrequently, Aaron’s son Ivan Neville (keyboards) and Art’s son Ian Neville (electric guitar), both of the band Dumpstaphunk, have played with the Neville Brothers. The final Neville Brothers studio album, titled Walkin’ in the Shadow of Life, was released in 2004. [9] The group formally disbanded in 2012 but reunited in 2015 for a farewell concert in New Orleans. Charles Neville died of pancreatic cancer on April 26, 2018, at the age of 79. On June 25, 2019, The New York Times Magazine listed the Neville Brothers among hundreds of artists whose material was reportedly destroyed in the 2008 Universal fire. Art Neville died on July 22, 2019, at the age of 81. A cause of death has not yet been provided. “Washable Ink / Speed of Light”. “Sweet Honey Dripper / Dance Your Blues Away”. “Sitting In Limbo / Brother John / Iko Iko”. Fiyo On The Bayou. “With God on Our Side”. “A Change Is Gonna Come”. “Bird on a Wire”. A History of The Neville Brothers. “Fly Like an Eagle”. “On the Other Side of Paradise”. “-” denotes releases that did not chart or were not released. 1978: The Neville Brothers (Capitol). 1981: Fiyo on the Bayou (A&M). 1989: Yellow Moon (A&M). 1990: Brother’s Keeper (A&M). 1992: Family Groove (A&M). 1995: Mitakuye Oyasin Oyasin/All My Relations (A&M). 1999: Valence Street (Columbia). 2004: Walkin’ in the Shadow of Life (Back Porch/EMI). 1984: Neville-ization (Black Top). 1987: Nevillization 2 (Live at Tipitina’s Volume 2) (Spindletop). 1994: Live on Planet Earth (A&M). 1998: Live at Tipitina’s (1982) (Rhino). 2010: Authorized Bootleg: Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, CA, February 27, 1989 (A&M). A History of the Neville Brothers, Vol. 1997: The Very Best of the Neville Brothers (Rhino). 1999: Uptown Rulin’ – The Best of the Neville Brothers (A&M). 2004: 20th Century Masters – The Millenium Collection: The Best of The Neville Brothers (A&M). 1976: The Wild Tchoupitoulas (with four of The Neville Brothers). 1997: Wyclef Jean Presents The Carnival by Wyclef Jean (guest appearance on “Mona Lisa”). This item is in the category “Collectibles\Autographs\Music”. The seller is “memorabilia111″ and is located in this country: US. 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AUTOGRAPH TURKEY RARE PRESIDENT Cemal Gürsel COUP SIGNED CARD ORIGINAL VINTAGE

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AUTOGRAPH TURKEY RARE PRESIDENT Cemal Gürsel COUP SIGNED CARD ORIGINAL VINTAGE
AUTOGRAPH TURKEY RARE PRESIDENT Cemal Gürsel COUP SIGNED CARD ORIGINAL VINTAGE

AUTOGRAPH TURKEY RARE PRESIDENT Cemal Gürsel COUP SIGNED CARD ORIGINAL VINTAGE
A VERY RARE VINTAGE ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH OF. Former President of Turkey ON APPROXIMATELY 3X4 CARD. Cemal Gürsel Turkish: d? Sæl; 13 October 1895 – 14 September 1966 was a Turkish army general who became the fourth President of Turkey after a coup. [citation needed] After the elementary school in Ordu and the military middle school in Erzincan, he graduated from the Kuleli military high school in Istanbul. He was a popular figure and was therefore nicknamed “Cemal Aga” (big brother Cemal) since his childhood school years and onwards all his life. Gürsel served in the Army for 45 years. During World War I, he participated in the Battle of Çanakkale in Dardanelles, Gallipoli as a lieutenant with the First Battery of the 12th Artillery Regiment in 1915 and received the War Medal. He later fought at the Palestine and Syria fronts in 1917 and became a prisoner of war by the British while suffering malaria during his command of the 5th Battery of the 41st Regiment on 19 September 1918. Gürsel was kept as a prisoner of war in Egypt until 6 October 1920. During his presidency much later, when interviewed by the foreign press as to why he had not learned English during his captivity, he somewhat regretfully recalled that he was so frustrated to be a captive, he protested and studied French in the British camp instead. He was promoted for gallantry in the First Division excelling in the battles of Second Inönü, Eskisehir and Sakarya, and was later awarded the Medal of Independence by the first Parliament for his combat service in the Final Offensive. Gürsel was married, in 1927, to Melahat, the daughter of the chief engineer on the Ottoman cruiser Hamidiye. From this marriage, a son Özdemir was born. The couple adopted a daughter Türkan. Cemal Gürsel attended the Turkish Military College and graduated in 1929 as a staff officer. He was promoted colonel in 1940. He was made a brigadier general in 1946 and made commander of the 65th Division. He was later the commander of the 12th Division, the 18th Corps commander, and commander of the 2nd Interior Tasks District. Made Lieutenant general in 1953, was general in 1957, being appointed Commander of 3rd Army. Service included chief of intelligence, and he was appointed as the Commander of Land Forces in 1958 when he was commanding an army. Gürsel, as an easy-going and fatherly figure with a fine sense of humor, was well liked both nationally and in NATO circles, and had earned the respect and confidence of both the nation and the armed forces with his professional knowledge and demeanor. A patriotic memorandum he sent on 3 May 1960 to the Minister of Defense in an effort to establish checks and balances on ongoing affairs, reflecting his personal views in continuation of the chat they had the night before, expressing his support to the prime minister Adnan Menderes and belief that the Prime Minister should replace the President with immediate effect to bolster a much needed national unity, resulted in his suspension from his post, forcing early retirement instead of becoming the next Chief of the Turkish General Staff. A farewell letter by him, advocating and urging the army to stay out of politics, was forwarded to all units of the armed forces at the time of his departure on leave. Cemal Gürsel’s statement read:’Always hold high the honor of the army and the uniform you wear. Protect yourselves from the current ambitious and harmful political atmosphere in the country. Stay away from the politics at all cost. This is of utmost importance to your honor, the army’s might and the future of the country. He went to Izmir where he became the president of the Anti-Communism Association of Turkey. See also: 1960 Turkish coup d’état. A coup d’état organised and conducted by army officers at the rank of colonels and below took place without the participation or leadership of Cemal Gürsel on 27 May 1960 after continuing civilian and academia unrests throughout the country. It is rumored that four-star general Ragip Gümüspala, the Commander of the Third Army based in Eastern Anatolia, gave an ultimatum to the rebelling officers that if they did not have a general appointed as their head, the Third Army would attack to take over the capital and the administration of the country, thereby forcing the rebel group to find a senior officer over them. Because of his immense popularity among the public and military ranks, Gürsel was subsequently chosen by the revolutionaries overnight and brought into the chairmanship of the military coup and became, as of 2015, the only leader in the world put into power by a military takeover who had previously had no role in its planning or execution. He, while still in his pajamas, was escorted to Ankara in the military C-47 transport plane by a captain who was the youngest officer of the radical coup team who that by that time had already sent President Celal Bayar, Prime Minister Adnan Menderes, Chief of General Staff Rüstü Erdelhun and some other members of the ruling Democratic Party to a military court on Yassiada in the Sea of Marmara, accusing them of violation of the constitution. The day after the coup, four-star general Cemal Gürsel was declared the commander in chief, Head of state, Prime minister and Minister of Defense of the 24th government on 30 May 1960, in theory giving him more absolute powers than even Kemal Atatürk had ever had. Gürsel freed 200 students and nine newsmen, and licensed 14 banned newspapers to start publishing again (Time, 6 June 1960). He fetched ten law professors, namely Siddik Sami Onar, Hifzi Veldet Velidedeoglu, Ragip Sarica, Naci Sensoy, Hüseyin Nail Kubali, Tarik Zafer Tunaya, Ismet Giritli, Ilhan Arsel, Bahri Savci and Muammer Aksoy, accompanied by Erdogan Teziç, a law postgraduate student as their assistant (later Chairman of the Turkish Council of Higher Education), from Istanbul and Ankara Universities to help draft a new constitution on 27 May, right after he arrived in Ankara. During their first meeting with General Cemal Gürsel on the same day, Prof. Onar declared on behalf of the group of law academicians that’the circumstances of the day should not be interpreted as an ordinary and political coup d’état, implying the revolution being brought by the change process starting in the republic that day. President Cemal Gürsel also formed a scientific council to guide the Ministry of Defence, later forming the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey to advise the government more broadly. He appointed General Ragip Gümüspala, the commander of the Third Army, as the new Chief of the General Staff who, upon his retirement in two months, was succeeded by General Cevdet Sunay, and Gümüspala was further directed by Gürsel to form the new Justice Party to bring together the former members of the Democratic Party. A simple and conservative sort, Gürsel became Turkey’s most popular figure, forbade display of his picture alongside Atatürk’s in government offices, rode about in an open Jeep touring rural communities, talking to the peasants almost as if they were his children (Time, 6 January 1961). He was successful with his personal interventions in reducing the number of execution verdicts from the Yassiada trials from 15 down to three. Gürsel’s plea for forgiveness and attempts along with several other world leaders for the reversal of the execution sentences and for the release of Adnan Menderes and two other ministers were rejected by the Junta. Of the National Unity Committee writes in his memoirs that, upon Cemal Gürsel’s intervention on the prevention of Menderes’ execution, the chief prosecutor of the tribunal, Altay Ömer Egesel, said:’Let us hurry! They will save him (Menderes)! , also arranging a contingency plan for conducting the execution in a Navy Destroyer in the event of a forgiveness operation in Imrali Island to save Menderes while, at the same time, placing a press release questioning the legal ability of Gürsel for an intervention. Adnan Menderes was hanged against the regulations. I was supposed to oversee the execution. The revolution tribunal’s chief prosecutor Egesel conducted the execution despite not being authorized. Ismet Inönü and Cemal Gürsel were already phoning for him (Menderes) not to be executed but the telecommunications’ office cut off the lines and Egesel made use of the (communication) gap to conduct the execution. Cemal Gürsel resisted pressure to continue military rule, was wounded as a result of a military assassination attempt on his life forgave the colonelwho? Who shot him, thwarted subsequent multiple military coup attempts, appointed the organizers of the coup to overseas posts and played an important role in the preparation of a new constitution and return to the democratic order of the Kemalist vision. Gürsel Hosting HM Queen Elizabeth II. Cemal Gürsel rescheduled and attended the previously cancelled Turkish and Scottish national football teams’ game in Ankara on 8 June 1960 (Turkey 4, Scotland 2) which was followed by a National Football Tournament, the Cemal Gürsel Cup, that helped boost the national morale in the post-coup weeks with finals in Istanbul on 3 July (Fenerbahçe 1, Galatasaray 0). He took an active role in extensive modernization of Turkish Armed Forces and the staunch defense of the free world and Europe during the cold war, in particular during the Cuban Missile Crisis. The declaration of independence of Cyprus according to the prior agreements and the deployment of a Turkish military unit to Cyprus took place in August 1960. He hosted the visit of Queen Elizabeth II to Ankara in early 1961 and the visit of the vice president Lyndon Johnson in 1962. Gürsel obtained, with the coordinated work of Sir Bernard Burrows, and granted permission of the ruling military National Unity Committee (NUC) for British military combat aircraft to overfly Turkish airspace on their way to support Kuwait, which was under threat of invasion by Iraq in July 1961. When questioned by a German journalist regarding his intentions on becoming the next president upon proposal of the interim parliament, Cemal Gürsel responded that he was ready to serve only if asked by the nation, not by the interim house. He neither put his own candidacy forward for the presidency nor lobbied for his election or against any other candidate in any way. He offered his endorsement of candidacy of several high rank academicians in Medicine and Sciences in Ankara for both the interim prime minister and future president positions. Gürsel placed a special emphasis on participatory democracy with the promotion of the full interests of the nation’s minorities, appointing Turkish Citizen ethnic leaders Hermine Kalustyan of Armenian, Kaludi Laskari of Greek and Erol Dilek of Jewish origin as his “Deputy Representatives of Head of State” and the full members of the interim House of Representatives. The editor of Shalom, Avram Leyon, accompanied him on his travels and foreign state functions. He re-established the freedom of speech that was overwhelmingly taken away from the media organs and from the press by the previous cabinet. The constitution, which brought for the first time a full text of civil and political rights under constitutional protection along with an improved system of checks and balances in Turkish history, was approved by a referendum held on 10 October 1961. With the establishment of the first Constitutional Court that created a new paradigm shift by scrutinizing the parliamentary rulings as the “checks” organ in 1961 and the addition of a Senate to the parliament, the Turkish Grand National Assembly was re-opened after the general elections, nominated and voted him as the fourth president of Turkey. Journalist Parliamentarian Cihat Baban claims in his book, The Gallery of Politics (Politika Galerisi) that Cemal Gürsel told him We may solve all troubles if Süleyman Demirel becomes the head of the Justice Party (Adalet Partisi). If I succeed in this, I will be happy.. Demirel was elected Chairman at the second grand party convention on 28 November 1964. The President of the Republic of Turkey Cemal Gürsel assigned the mandate to form and serve as the Prime Minister of the new government to Ismet Inönü in November 1961, June 1962 and December 1963, to Senator Suat Hayri Ürgüplü on February 1965 and, following the general elections, to Suleyman Demirel of Justice Party in October 1965. With the reduction of tensions between the West and the Soviet bloc, Gürsel sought improved relations for his country’s population of 27.8 million with the Soviet Union, such as the initiation of a telephone line agreement, as with the other members of the Western alliance while initiating new credit agreements with the US and the UK as well as bilateral technical and investment relations with Germany in 1960s. The atomic reactor in Istanbul became operational in 1962 along with his establishment of the first Research and State Library of the government in two years after his administration started. He promoted the grant of the freedom of and the legal rights to form unions and to go on strike in the country. Turkish Universities gained autonomous independence by law for the first time upon the legislation he passed. Cemal Gürsel granted a presidential pardon for the life sentences of the previous president Celal Bayar and the former chief of general staff Rustu Erdelhun whose prior execution sentence was also revoked by the National Unity Committee upon Gürsel’s appeals. He initiated the new era of planned economy in Turkey, formed a State Institute of Statistics, launched the State Planning Organization (DPT) that implemented “The First 5-Years Development Plan”, arranged re-entry of the Turkish Republic in the United Nations Security Council in 1961 and moved Turkey, through his close and personal diplomatic dialogues with Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer, into the direction of European Union membership with the Ankara Agreement, signed with France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Italy and Luxembourg in 1963, resulting in associate membership the following year and a large Turkish workforce migration to Germany and Western Europe to assist their postwar industrial development. When a Cypriot leader who was exiled out of the UK previously in 1956 on the basis of his struggle for Cypriot independence from the British rule, wanted in November 1963 to amend the basic articles of the 1960 constitution, communal violence ensued and Turkey, Great Britain and Greece, the guarantors of the agreements which had led to Cyprus’ independence, wanted to send a NATO force to the island under the command of General Young. Due to the continued ethnic violence between the Cypriot Turks and Cypriot Greeks, President Gürsel ordered warning flights and subsequent continuous air assaults by the Turkish Air Force against the island which continued between 7 and 10 August 1964, ending with the fulfilment of the military objectives of Turkey, and the invitation to calm by Nikita Khrushchev of USSR. Cemal Gürsel reformed the “Teskilat-i Mahsusa”, the “Special Organization” of clandestine security services to a modern National Intelligence Agency in response to and preparation against escalating international terrorism trends in 1963. He paved the way to Middle Eastern countries and Pakistan to concentrate on economic and cultural matters of mutual interest and Ankara recognized Syria following the breakup of the short-lived United Arab Republic in 1961, further reestablishing diplomatic relations with Egypt in 1965. In July 1964, Pakistani President Ayub Khan, Turkish President Cemal Gürsel, and Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran announced in Istanbul the establishment of the Regional Cooperation for Development (RCD) organization to promote transportation and joint economic projects also envisioning Afghanistan and possibly Indonesia joining at some time in the future. He granted asylum to the political dissidents Ayatollah Khoumeini of Iran and Molla Barzani of Iraq. Gürsel, 40 years after the foundation of the Republic, launched the first radio broadcasting station of Eastern Anatolia within the centrally located province of Erzurum, where Ankara and Istanbul radios’ transmissions were not received. He brought the Microwave Telecommunications Network into operation increasing telephone and teletype capacity along with a High-Frequency Radio Link connecting London and Ankara with Rawalpindi, Karachi, Tehran and Istanbul. He laid the foundations of the new agricultural and structural development plans for the south-eastern Anatolian regions in early 1960s for the first time. With his directive, The Holy Relics from the Prophets Abraham, Moses, Joseph, David and Muhammad, including the oldest Qur’an in existence from the 7th Century were put on display from their storage rooms within the Topkapi Palace for public viewing for the first time on 31 August 1962. Gürsel added the first Ministry of Culture and Tourism to the cabinet. In a parallel effort of promoting the country’s touristic popularity in the West, Topkapi, the movie version of the book by Eric Ambler that had been commissioned for the same purpose, was shot in Paris and Istanbul and was introduced with success. Similarly, one of the favorite books of John F. Kennedy, Ian Fleming’s From Russia with Love was shot in Istanbul as the second James Bond movie, to promote the touristic popularity of Turkey, with his keen interest. The Directorate of Religious Affairs network of the country was founded with his directive and became operational on 22 June 1965. He started the new procedure of returning the law proposals presented for the President’s approval back to the Parliamentary re-discussions in 1963. Cemal Gürsel founded The National Security Council (MGK) as well as the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) in 1963, appointing Professor Cahit Arf as its first director, officially charging TUBITAK primarily with governmental advisory duty by legislation. In addition to the foundation of the Turkish Radio and Television (TRT) organization as a government agency in 1964 that brought television broadcasting to Turkey for the first time under his administration, the opening of The School of Press and Broadcasting at the College of Political Sciences in Ankara followed in November 1965. The country’s new initiative of Planning of Population Growth Control was put in effect in 1965. The production of the first domestic Turkish automobile, the Devrim (Revolution), took place with Cemal Gürsel’s directive which sparked the initiation of an automotive industry in the republic in the following few years. The first use of a computer in the country, iron and steel mass production growth, the thermic power plant and a petrol pipeline structuring took place during his presidency. Cemal Gürsel refused remuneration for his Head of State and subsequent Presidential positions and made his and his family’s living with his retired general’s salary, meeting their own expenses during their life in the Presidential Palace in Çankaya, Ankara. Because of a paralysis that started in early 1961 and progressed quickly in 1966, on 2 February Cemal Gürsel was flown to the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D. On the private airplane “BlueBird” sent by US President Lyndon B. One week later, he fell into a coma there after suffering a series of new paralytic strokes. The government decided he return to Turkey on 24 March. President Johnson travelled by helicopter from the White House to Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, near Washington, D. To pay his respects to President Cemal Gürsel on his departure to home, In addition to issuing the following statement’Our distinguished friend, President Cemal Gursel of Turkey, came to the United States on 2 February for medical treatment. There was hope that new therapeutic procedures only recently developed in this country would be useful in treating his illness of several years. We were initially encouraged by his progress at Walter Reed Hospital, only to be shocked by the news on 8 February that his health had suffered a grave new blow. Our best talent, coupled with the skill of the eminent Turkish doctors who accompanied the President, was exerted to the utmost in the hope that the President might return to his home in fully restored health. We are saddened that this hope was not to be realized. We have been deeply honored to have President Gürsel come to our country to seek medical treatment. With a report of a medical committee by Gülhane Military Hospital in Ankara, the parliament ruled on 28 March 1966 that his presidency be terminated due to ill health in accordance with the constitution. He left behind no directives or last will. He was laid to rest at the “Freedom Martyrs Memorial” section in the yard of the mausoleum of Atatürk. His body was transferred on 27 August 1988 to a permanent burial place in the newly built Turkish State Cemetery. Among all of his achievements and great modesty in his down-to-earth plain demeanor, he tried to place the most emphasis on the need for a well-educated youth and a hard-working population with high standards of ethics for a westernized democratic progress in Atatürk’s tradition (commentary by Imran Oktem, Chief Supreme Court Justice – Yargitay, 1966). His portrait as a statesman and soldier remained next to Atatürk’s in most homes in Turkey for a long time. Erzurum Cemal Gürsel Stadium, some schools and streets were named after him. The developments during his term were described as the “Turkish Revolution” which was celebrated annually on 27 May as the Constitution Day until 1981. In 2002, a commemorative coin was released for the same. In 2008, the movie The Cars of Revolution was released in his memory. I took over the administration of the state to stop the tragic course of events. (Cemal Gürsel, radio address on the evening of 27 May 1960). The network was ready. I personally did not want the army to intervene and had been stopping the attempts (of takeover) of my younger friends. Now my only goal is to reinstate an administration built on the principles of justice and ethics. Cemal Gürsel, An interview. Cumhuriyet, 16 July 1960. Those who follow Atatürk will not be left behind. (Cemal Gürsel, from the address on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Atatürk’s death, 10 November 1963). General Gursel may be described as the father of the second Turkish Republic similar to Atatürk being the father of modern Turkey. At a time of deep division, Gursel earned and maintained the respect of the Turkish Nation that regarded him as the symbol of national unity. When he passed away, he had the identity of the trusted father of the nation. Bernard Lewis, 15 September 1966. A few days before the coup, it was known that the coup was imminent but General Cemal Gursel was dismissed as a non-political general. No leading role by General Cemal Gursel was determined despite the foreknowledge of the plot. The CIA; The Inside Story by Andrew Tully, pages 51, 53. On 27 May, he (Cemal Gursel) was hurriedly requested to come (from his residence in Izmir) to the capital (Ankara) to assume the leadership of National Unity Committee. The Turkish Revolution, Aspects of Military politics. The Brookings Institution, 1963. When 27 May revolt occurred, Cemal Gürsel was not a participant. He was invited to become the head due to the circumstances and he willingly accepted. (Burhan Felek, Milliyet, Page 2, 18 September 1971). General Gürsel was brought into the NUC chairmanship by the revolution team when he was in retirement preparation. In actuality he was in the position of a chairman found in last minute with a hurried search. He never was the responsible leader for a true leader is not to be appointed but is self-appointed. (By a leading member of the NUC). One of the core players of the coup, Orhan Erkanli told that they revolted on 27 May without knowing what to do on 28 May. No one, including Cemal Gürsel knew who and how many would be forming the NUC. In actuality, even Cemal Gürsel was brought in later. Years of Ismet Pasha of our Democracy, 1960-61 by Metin Toker, page 25. It is now known that the coup was the result of years of planning on the part of conspirators, a number of radical colonels and ranks below in their early forties. He (Cemal Gürsel) was not involved in the details of the organization of the coup d’état. When the coup had succeeded, he was brought to Ankara. Turkey, A modern History by Erik Zurcher. We just see that a few very important lines in his letter (to the Minister of Defence) had been censored. That means we are going without learning the true history, without knowing who knows what facts and what true pictures of turning points. (Çetin Altan, Author, Journalist, September 2006). An extremely important document that sheds light on the past has been revealed. Testimony from eyewitnesses at the time helped make known that the letter had been modified after 27 May, but the location of the original letter was unknown. This important document adds a new dimension to the 27 May revolution. We have come face to face with a new document that changes our written history. It was my greatest wish to obtain just such a document; not for my own satisfaction, but for my father, to prove this reality and obtain genuine evidence. I was thrilled when I heard about this. (Mr Aydin Menderes, Author, the Son of Prime Minister Adnan Menderes, September 2006). Adnan Menderes was hung against the regulations. The revolution tribunal’s chief prosecutor Altay Egesel conducted the execution despite not being authorized. Ismet Inönü and Cemal Gürsel were already phoning for him (Adnan Menderes) not to be executed but the telecommunications’ office cut off the lines and Egesel made use of the (communication) gap to conduct the execution. Mehmet Feyyat, District Attorney General, Istanbul Province Prosecutor General 1961, The Administrator of the Imrali Prison, The Lawyer of the Year, Senator. (Reported by Özkan GÜVEN, STAR Newspaper, 13 November 2006 with a summary in Turkish at Law in the Capitol). Where are we now and where are the nations such as Portugal, Greece and Spain with whom we departed for the competition of development in 1960s? In one word, an embarrassment. (Hasan Cemal, Milliyet, October 2006). We built an automobile with the mentality of the West and we forgot to put gasoline in it with the mentality of the East. (Cemal Gürsel, President, on the Anniversary of the Turkish Republic, 29 October 1963). 1962 attempted coup in Turkey. “Çankaya’nin First Lady’leri”. Retrieved 14 February 2019. “Transport of Cemal Gürsel’s body to the State Cemetery” (in Turkish). Press Agency of the Turkish Government website. Retrieved 12 November 2006. Song of The Pharaohs – The Kings of the East and the West. Analysis of political scene on 26 May 1960, research article (in Turkish). General Gursel hosting HM Queen Elizabeth’s first visit to Turkey, Ankara, 1961[permanent dead link]. The full translated text of Cemal Gursel’s letter The research copy of the Turkish original. Cemal Gursel’s Memorandum Revealed. His video and photographs at the President’s Web Page. Cemal Gursel with Vice President Lyndon Johnson in Ankara, 1962 (Anatolian Agency Album). 60’s video montage. Presidential Messages search Cemal Gursel. Text of Ankara Agreement. The movie “The Cars of Revolution”. His photos in LIFE Magazine[permanent dead link]. Video footage of massacres and offensives against Turkish Community. Cable from US Embassy reflecting collective efforts of Cemal Gursel, Ismet Inonu and his entire cabinet and Gen Cevdet Sunay to stop executions. Commander of the Third Army. Commander of the Turkish Army. Minister of National Defense. Prime Minister of Turkey. The 1962 attempted coup in Turkey (also known as the February 22 Incident) was led by the Commander of the Turkish Military Academy, Staff Colonel tr:Talat Aydemir and his associates, who were opposed to the democratically elected government in Turkey. [1][2][3] Despite taking control of much of Ankara, the coup leaders quickly realised they could not prevail and surrendered without any loss of life occurring. Talat Aydemir went on to lead a further coup attempt in 1963. The Armed Forces Union. June – July 1961. January – February 1962. False alarm, 20 February 1962. Nevertheless there were groups of junior officers who felt that the direction taken by the MBK was wrong, particularly after it had dismissed “the fourteen” hardline coup supporters on 13 November 1960. Following the dismissal of the fourteen hardliners, the High Command continued to steadily remove officers whom it regarded as unreliable, and to make new appointments of those who would not oppose the return to democracy. While the process of handing over power from the army to the civilian authorities was underway, there were several indications of growing dissent. [7][8] One was the creation of the Armed Forces Union (Turkish: Silahli Kuvvetler Birligi) late in 1960 as a voice for officers pressing for a more radical policy. Its membership and aims were unclear and its existence at the time was little known outside the armed forces themselves. [5]:139[9][6]. Tension between the MBK and the Armed Forces Union first became public in June 1961, when airforce commander Irfan Tansel was removed from his military post and sent to Washington DC as an adviser to Turkey’s military mission. There were rumours of a number of other dismissals and appointments, and Talat Aydemir was one of a group of officers who met in Ankara to agree a six-point protocol which they sent to the General Staff, demanding the reinstatement of Tansel, the cancellation of other dismissals and promotions, and no future interference from the MBK in military appointments. [9] A squadron of jet fighters flew over Ankara to emphasise the seriousness of the Armed Forces Union’s intentions. Faced with this show of determination, the MBK agreed to the demands of the Armed Forces Union, but decided to also to issue a statement, through the General Staff, to all members of the armed forces. This statement, issued on 28 June 1961, offered assurances that the planned civilian regime would not be able to take action against the coup leaders of 1960, and that the sentences of the Yassiada trials would be carried out promptly. In July, the junior officers’ concerns were increased when, in the referendum, the new military-approved constitution was only approved by 61.7% of voters. [12] Following this, on 25 August 1961 members of the Armed Forces Union were required to swear an oath to support the work of the MBK. Prime Minister Ismet Inönü (1964). In the October 1961 elections the Republican People’s Party failed to win an outright majority and incoming prime minister Ismet Inönü was obliged to form a coalition government with the newly formed Justice Party, which effectively reconstituted the Democrat Party that had been removed from power by the 1960 coup. [13] Overall, the majority of votes had gone to parties that claimed to be successors of the Democrats. The general election result prompted Talat Aydemir and his associates to begin mobilising their supporters to use force to prevent the return to civilian rule. [14][15]:178 On 21 October 1961 a large meeting was held at the Turkish Military Academy in Istanbul, following which 10 Generals and 28 Colonels signed what became known as the October Protocol. [9][6] According to this protocol, the military was to intervene before the newly elected Grand National Assembly of Turkey was convened – no later than 25 October 1961. However, those who signed it had no means of implementing it without the active support of senior officers. Instead of supporting the junior officers, the army High Command intervened to oblige the leaders of the four largest parties to sign the Çankaya Protocol, guaranteeing the continuation of the reforms instituted after the coup, granting immunity to those who had led it, and agreeing not to stand any candidates for the presidency against Cemal Gürsel. [6][17][18]:62 The junior officers were unable to do anything to prevent the recently-elected coalition government from taking power. Once the civilian government was installed, the concerns of Aydemir and his colleagues seemed well-founded. Politicians who had been removed from office by the 1960 coup were preparing to make a rapid return to public life: the newly formed Justice Party began examining possible grounds for the pardon of those still held in detention after the Yassiada trials. A particular flashpoint was the funeral of the Democrat Party’s Minister of National Education, Tevfik Ileri which saw young people protesting against the coup for the first time and demanding the release of political prisoners. A grouping of military officers known as the “Extended Command Council” (Turkish: Genisletilmis Komuta Konseyi) met at the General Staff Headquarters on 19 January 1962 to discuss a proposal from Chief of the General Staff Cevdet Sunay that they should abandon any thought of staging a military intervention and instead rally behind the government of Ismet Inönü. The Generals and Commanders at that meeting supported Sunay’s proposal but Talat Aydemir and the Colonels who attended stated that they did not agree and that a military intervention was necessary. However, without the support of the Generals, especially the Chief of the General Staff, they would have been acting outside the chain of command if they tried to move on their own. Prime Minister Inönü decided to try and defuse the tensions within the army by visiting military units in Istanbul and Ankara. He first visited the 66th Division Command and the War Academies in Istanbul. At the units he went to, he advised the officers to remain calm and patient, making clear that he did not support any action by them. [19] This undermined the plans of those officers who believed that they should seize power in order to offer him their support. On February 5, 1962, he went to visit the Military Academy in Ankara, and no one received him other than the commanders and the inspection unit. On 9 February Lieutenant General tr:Refik Tulga convened a meeting in Balmumcu, Istanbul, that was attended by 59 officers. Thirty seven of those attending, including Talat Aydemir, agreed on the need to carry out a military intervention before 28 February. [6][19][21] Cevdet Sunay however refused to support overthrowing the government as long as Inönü, Atatürk’s deputy, remained prime minister. Instead, Sunay alerted Inönü to what Talat Aydemir and the other junior officers were planning. On February 18, 1962, Sunay also summoned the Corps Commanders of the 1st Army, the Governor of Istanbul, Lieutenant General Refik Tulga, the Commander of the War Academies Brigadier General tr:Faruk Güventürk and the Commander of the War Fleet to Ankara. These generals had previously met with Talat Aydemir and other radical colonels, and made clear that they would not agree to support a new coup. On February 19, 1962, Sunay also summoned Talat Aydemir, Necati Ünsalan and Selçuk Atakan to the General Staff Headquarters. Air Force Commander Irfan Tansel, Land Forces Commander Muhittin Önür and Gendarmerie General Commander Abdurrahman Doruk Pasha were waiting for them here, but they were still unable to persuade the colonels to give up their plans. [9] There now seemed no alternative but for the government and the High Command to take action against them. Rumours began to spread through the army that Talat Aydemir and his associates were going to stage their coup on the night of February 20-21. In response, officers in the Etimesgut Armored Units School First Armoured Division Tank Battalion placed their troops on alert. Likewise, sections of the 229th Infantry Regiment and the Guard Regiment also prepared to join the coup. By the following morning it was clear that the rumour was unfounded. Cevdet Sunay was enraged when he heard what had happened the previous night. He summoned Talat Aydemir and two other officers to General Staff Headquarters and advised them that they would immediately be transferred to new posts away from the capital, although Aydemir denied any wrongdoing or involvement in the previous night’s events. At a meeting of the General Staff later on February 21, and orders were given for the transfer of officers causing unrest to units in the East. The list of names included including Selçuk Atakan, Emin Arat, Ihsan Erkan, Haldun Doran and Sükrü Ilkin (commander of the Presidential Guard Regiment) as well as Talat Aydemir[20][22]. When Aydemir learned that the transfer order had been issued, he gathered about 600 recent graduates of the Military Academy and made a speech to them at 3pm, explaining the events of recent days. In his speech, Aydemir said. The 1960 coup failed to reach its goal. Parliament is not working. The army is being criticised. Now commanders are sent East to break up the forces at the ready. Our plans are ready, the army is with us. Our password is’Halaskar’ and our sign is’Fedailer’… If this action does not succeed, I will commit suicide. [13][4][19]. The expressions chosen as passwords and signs alluded to Enver Pasha and the 1913 Ottoman coup d’état that took place outside the chain of command. The graduates agreed to support him and prepared to fight. The units that had responded to the false rumour on 19th February did not join in this time, as they had new officers in command. Nevertheless Aydemir sent tanks from Military Academy towards the Turkish Grand National Assembly. The government placed anti-tank guns around the building. Soldiers from the barracks in Polatli and Çubuk were called in to help break the siege, but all of the battalions called to suppress the coup sided with Talat Aydemir and declared their loyalty to him. On the morning of 22 February the battalion guarding the parliament building went over to the rebels units loyal to Aydemir were effectively in control of central Ankara, including the radio station. [21] Critically however, the Air Force remained loyal to the government, and this was to prove decisive. With unchallenged air superiority, Ismet Inönü’s government made preparations to bomb the Army War College with jets from the Murted airbase. Aydemir and his colleagues announced their aims as the dissolution of the Grand National Assembly, the resignation of the government and the passing of the administration to them through the suspension of the Constitution. At noon on February 22 Cihat Alpan was appointed to replace Sükrü Ilkin as commander of the Presidential Guard Regiment protecting the Çankaya Mansion. However, the cavalry group of the Guard Regiment under Major Fethi Gürcan detained Alpan and then found itself in control of President Cemal Gürsel, Prime Minister Inönü and several other ministers, Chief of General Staff Sunay and the force commanders, who were meeting inside the mansion at that time. [4] [23] Gürcan contacted Talat Aydemir and asked permission to arrest them all. Aydemir refused because he did not want his action to be seen as a coup, so he ordered Gürcan to release them all. [4] As he left the mansion, Inönü smiled and said Now they have lost. As soon as he left the Çankaya mansion, Inönü headed for the Airforce Command Building, where he met other party leaders as well as the Airforce commanders. The government’s plan was now for President Gürsel and Prime Minister Inönü to make conciliatory speeches over the radio to try and de-escalate the situation. Mediation was established through Ekrem Alican, the leader of the New Turkey Party and a relative of Talat Aydemir, but this made little progress. Cemal Gürsel departed for Murted air base. When Fethi Gürcan seized the radio’s transmitting station in Etimesgut with his troops, Inönü’s broadcasts stopped, but he was able to resume his addresses through the transmitter at Ankara Esenboga Airport a few hours later. In his messages, Inönü stressed that providing no blood was shed, Aydemir and the other soldiers supporting the coup would not be punished. He refused however to consider any of the demands the coup leaders had made. It became clear to Aydemir that no further units were intending to join him, that his forces were surrounded, and that the government, political parties and High Command were steadily regaining the upper hand. He ordered the tanks in central Ankara to withdraw. [21] On the evening of 22 February, the jets of the Air Force began to fly low over the Military Academy. At 1am in the morning of 23 February, Inönü sent Aydemir a written note confirming that there would be no punishments if he and his followers gave up. Shortly afterwards Aydemir called on his followers to lay down their arms and return to barracks while he himself surrendered. When Inönü entered the Grand National Assembly on February 23, he was given an unprecedented standing ovation from deputies of all parties, who expressed their gratitude and confidence in the armed forces. The students of the Military Academy were given a week’s early leave and the school was temporarily closed and Semih Sancar was appointed to head it in place of Talat Aydemir. Aydemir, Emin Arat, Dündar Seyhan and Turgut Alpagut were kept under guard for a while, but there were no arrests. Fourteen officers were transferred while Aydemir and 22 others were retired from the army. [14] Aydemir was arrested not for the attempted coup but for insulting Ismet Inönü and as detained in prison for just 9 days. [13] Inönü’s conciliatory approach avoided holding a number of trials that would have caused discord and embarrassment to a government working to restore calm and order following the return to civilian rule. Indeed, on 22 April Inönü managed to persuade the Turkish Grand National Assembly to pass an amnesty law that allowed them to return to the ranks. [24] There was a political cost – in return for agreeing to amnesty the coup officers, the Justice Party demanded the early release of Democrat Party prisoners held in Kayseri prison since the 1960 coup. In fact the attempted coup, the pardon debates and the ensuing the party conflicts overwhelmed Inönü, who resigned on 30 May 1962. Talat Aydemir continued to oppose the return to civilian rule and gave many interviews sharing his views in the months after his release. On May 20, 1963 he led a second attempted coup, and after this he was arrested, sentenced to death and executed. Gursel’s father was an officer of the Ottoman army so after the middle school he was graduated from Kuleli military highschool in Istanbul. He was even captured as a prisoner of war by the British for two years during a campaign in Palestine. He served in the army a total of 45 years. In 1958 Cemal Gursel became the commander of Turkish ground forces as a four-star general. Due to a memorandum he sent to the Minister of Defence, expressing his views on Adnan Menderes who, according to Gursel, should become the next president, he was suspended from his post and forced for an early retirement. But, since he was a popular army figure, he was chosen as the leader of a military coup on 27th of May 1960 run by young army officers, which overthrew the government of Adnan Menderes. After the military court on Yassiada island, Gursel tried to stop the execution of Menderes on Imrali island, but no avail. Cemal Gürsel resisted attempts to continue military rule. He was elected as the fourth President of the Republic in 1961 and played an important role in the preparation of a new Constitution and return back to the democracy after the coup. Because of his illness which progressed quickly and took him into a coma, his presidency was terminated by the Parliament, and then he was succeeded by Cevdet Sunay on March of 1966. Cemal Gursel died of apoplexy on September 14th of the same year, in Ankara. He’s now buried at the Turkish State Cemetery. Cemal Gürsel was a Turkish army officer, and the fourth President of Turkey. Cemal Gürsel was born on October 13, 1895 in Erzurum, Turkey. After the elementary school in Ordu and the military middle school in Erzincan, Cemal Gürsel graduated from the Kuleli military high school in Istanbul. He attended the Turkish Military College and graduated in 1929 as a staff officer. Cemal Gürsel served in the Army for 45 years. Cemal Gürsel was kept as a prisoner of war in Egypt until 6 October 1920. Cemal Gürsel was promoted colonel in 1940. The day after the coup, four-star general Cemal Gürsel was declared the commander in chief, Head of state, Prime minister and Minister of Defense of the 24th government on 30 May 1960. Cemal Gürsel freed 200 students and nine newsmen, and licensed 14 banned newspapers to start publishing again. He fetched ten law professors, a law postgraduate student as their assistant, from Istanbul and Ankara Universities to help draft a new constitution on 27 May, right after he arrived in Ankara. Cemal Gürsel hosted the visit of Queen Elizabeth II to Ankara in early 1961 and the visit of the vice president Lyndon Johnson in 1962. President Johnson went by helicopter from the White House to Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, near Washington, D. To pay his respects to President Cemal Gürsel on his departure to home. In addition to issuing the following statement Our distinguished friend, President Cemal Gursel of Turkey, came to the United States on 2 February for medical treatment. A simple and conservative sort, Cemal Gürsel became Turkey’s most popular figure, forbade display of his picture alongside Atatürk’s in government offices, rode about in an open Jeep touring rural communities, talking to the peasants almost as if they were his children. He was successful with his personal interventions in reducing the number of execution verdicts from the Yassiada tribunals from 15 down to three. Cemal Gürsel promoted the grant of the freedom of and the legal rights to form unions and to go on strike in the country. Cemal Gürsel initiated the new era of planned economy in Turkey, formed a State Institute of Statistics, launched the State Planning Organization (DPT) that implemented “The First 5-Years Development Plan”, arranged re-entry of the Turkish Republic in the United Nations Security Council in 1961 and moved Turkey, through his close and personal diplomatic dialogues with Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer, into the direction of European Union membership with the Ankara Agreement, signed with France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Italy and Luxembourg in 1963, resulting in associate membership the following year and a large Turkish workforce migration to Germany and Western Europe to assist their postwar industrial development. Cemal Gürsel, 40 years after the foundation of the Republic, launched the first radio broadcasting station of Eastern Anatolia within the centrally located province of Erzurum, where Ankara and Istanbul radios’ transmissions were not received. Cemal Gürsel added the first Ministry of Culture and Tourism to the cabinet. Quotations: I took over the administration of the state to stop the tragic course of events. Cemal Gürsel, as an easy-going and fatherly figure with a fine sense of humor, was well liked both nationally and in NATO circles, and had earned the respect and confidence of both the nation and the armed forces with his professional knowledge and demeanor. Quotes from others about the person. Professor Bernard Lewis: General Gursel may be described as the father of the second Turkish Republic similar to Atatürk being the father of modern Turkey. Cemal Gürsel was married, in 1927, to Melahat, the daughter of the chief engineer on the Ottoman cruiser Hamidiye. Cemal Gürsel was born in Erzurum in 1895. After receiving primary education in Ordu, he continued his education as a military student in Erzincan and Istanbul. Cemal Bey who participated in the Çanakkale (Dardanelles) Battle between 1915 and 1917 as an Artillery Officer also took part on the Syrian and Palestinian fronts of the World War I. He fought in all the Western fronts of the War of Independence. After graduating from the Military Academy in 1929, he was appointed as the Commander of the Land Forces in 1958. He resigned from the military on 3 May 1960 and left for Izmir. Immediately after the military coup on 27 May 1960, he headed the National Unity Committee that was formed by the military. After the execution of the former Prime Minister Adnan Menderes and two of his ministers in the aftermath of the military coup, he played an important role in the formation of the new Constitution and transition to democracy again. In accordance with the Constitution that was approved in a referendum, he was elected as the fourth President of Turkey by the Turkish Grand National Assembly (TBMM) that was formed in the 10 October 1961 elections. Due to the deterioration in his health conditions in 1966, his Presidency was terminated by the TBMM in accordance with the Constitution. Cemal Gürsel who got married to Melahat Hanim in 1927 and had a child with her died on 14 September 1966. Military man, statesman, 4th president of Republic of Turkey. June 10th, 1895, Erzurum – D. September 14th, 1966, Ankara. The son of a military family, he studied the primary school in Ordu. After completing the secondary school in Erzincan; he studied at Istanbul Kuleli Military High School. During his senior year, the 1st World War began. Because of the war, his education was interrupted on October 16th, 1914 and he started to serve in 4th Army Command as lieutenant. He fought in the Battle of Dardanelles between 1915 and 1917 as the artillery officer. He was on the battles on the Palestine and Syrian fronts. He participated in almost all the battles on the Western Front during the Independence War. He got promotion and became the captain on 1st September 1922. He entered War Academy on 1st October 1926 and graduated as a staff officer in 1929. In 1927, he married Melahat Hanim and they had one son, Muzaffer. Starting from 1946, he was promoted to the Brigadier General and undertook commands of divisions, corps and the army. In 1958, he was promoted to the rank of General and became the Commander of the Land Forces. Before the May 27th 1960 Revolution; while he was still a Commander of the Land Forces; he visited Ethem Menderes, who was the Minister of Defense on 2nd May 1960. During his visit, he reflected his personal views to the Minister of Defense, accordingly to the government, expressing his support to the Prime Minister Adnan Menderes and a letter reflecting his belief that the Prime Minister should replace the President. This resulted in his suspension from his post, forcing an early retirement on 3rd May 1960. A farewell letter by him, advocating and urging the army to stay out of politics, was forwarded to all units of the armed forces at the time of his departure on leave for Izmir. After the coup d’état on 27 May 1960, which was organized and conducted by army officers at the rank of colonels and below, Cemal Gürsel, was chosen as the chairman of the military coup and by the National Unity Committee. During his position, he survived an assassination attempt, but he was wounded. He and other 13 members of the National Unity Committee, including Türkes, were sent to abroad for an official duty. While he was the chairman of National Unity Committee, he launched the Erzurum Radio. Gürsel directed the retired general Ragip Gümüspala to bring the Demokrat Party members together to form the Adalet Party. By virtue of the 1961 Constitution, which was prepared by the Constituent Assembly and presented for a referendum held on 10th October 1961, he was nominated and gained the majority of the votes at Turkish Grand National Assembly to be the fourth president of Turkey on 21st October 1961. He initiated the new era of planned economy in Turkey and formed a State Institute of Statistics, launched the State Planning Organization. He promoted the legal rights to form unions, to go on strike in the country and to enact the law of collective bargaining. The establishment of National Security Council (MIT), the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the School of Press and Broadcasting were established during his presidency. He also paved the way for the planning to develop the Southeastern Turkey, the formation of Turkish Radio and Television Association (TRT) (1964), the first use of a computer in the country, the establishment of the first State Research Library, as well as the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) along with many other “firsts”. The production of the first domestic Turkish automobile, “Devrim” T. Revolution, took place with Cemal Gürsel’s directive. Because of a disease that started in 1966, Cemal Gürsel was sent abroad. In accordance with the Constitution, the Grand National Assembly of Turkey ruled that his presidency be terminated due to his ill health on 28th March 1966. When he died, he was laid to rest at the “Freedom Martyrs Memorial” section in the yard of the Atatürk’s mausoleum. His body was later transferred to the Turkish State Cemetery. Excelling in the battles of the Final Offensive, he was awarded the Medal of Independence. A documentary film was made about him by because of the manufacture of the “Devrim” automobile. On 27 May 1960, General Cemal Gürsel led a coup d’etat that removed President Celal Bayar, prime minister Adnan Menderes, and his cabinet from power and dissolved the parliament. Several members of the Menderes government were charged with various crimes ranging from misuse of public funds to abrogation of the Constitution and high treason. Arraigned before a joint civilian – military tribunal, a number of those charged were sentenced to prison terms and former Premier Menderes was executed along with two other ministers. The 1960 coup occurred against a backdrop of escalating tension between the government and opposition that threatened to erupt into civil war. First elected in 1950, Menderes built on the liberalization measures that followed Atatürk’s death in 1938, including a relaxation of laws that restricted the role of minorities and Islam. Confronted with strong Kemalist opposition, the government repeatedly passed legislation designed to restrict freedom of the press to print material “designed to damage the political or financial prestige of the state” or “belittling persons holding official positions”. By 1959, growing hostilities between government and opposition supporters fuelled by a polarization of public opinion led to violent clashes. In April 1960, a series of large-scale student demonstrations paralyzed university campuses and led to bloody confrontations with police forces. The imposition of martial law in Istanbul and Ankara on 1st of May and the confinement of demonstrators in detention camps failed to restore civil order. Although public unrest had been growing over the previous year, the trigger for the coup appears to have been the 1st of May decision to use the armed forces in an effort to regain control of the situation. While some senior officers supported the government, Istanbul’s martial law commander announced that his troops were authorized to fire on “even the smallest public assembly” – others were not united behind this policy. One week after the declaration of martial law, the commander of land forces, General Gürsel, was placed on a compulsory leave of absence. In his farewell message, Gürsel urged his troops to steel themselves against the greedy political atmosphere now blowing through the country. Such sentiments were clearly shared by others as well. Former President and Atatürk’s colleague, Ismet Inönü, warned that “an oppressive regime can never be sure of the army”. In a 27 May broadcast, Cemal Gürsel rejected dictatorship and announced that the government had been overthrown to help establish an honest and just democratic order and to give over the administration of the state into the hands of the nation. In a press conference on 28 May, Gürsel emphasized that the purpose and the aim of the coup is to bring the country with all speed to a fair, clean and solid democracy… I want to transfer power and the administration of the nation to the free choice of the people. That same day, the military-dominated cabinet issued a policy statement promising respect for human rights and the abolition of all laws contrary to the Kemalist tradition. The military dominated the political scene until October 1965. During that time, a series of conservative coalition government led by former President Inönü held office. When free elections were once again permitted, Süleyman Demirel led his Justice Party (Adalet Parti – AP) to victory. Demirel remained in office until the Turkish military forced his resignation in March 1971. This item is in the category “Collectibles\Autographs\Historical”. The seller is “memorabilia111″ and is located in this country: US. This item can be shipped to United States, New Zealand, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Wallis and Futuna, Gambia, Malaysia, Taiwan, Poland, Oman, Suriname, United Arab Emirates, Kenya, Argentina, Guinea-Bissau, Armenia, Uzbekistan, Bhutan, Senegal, Togo, Ireland, Qatar, Burundi, Netherlands, Slovakia, Slovenia, Equatorial Guinea, Thailand, Aruba, Sweden, Iceland, Macedonia, Belgium, Israel, Liechtenstein, Kuwait, Benin, Algeria, Antigua and Barbuda, Swaziland, Italy, Tanzania, Pakistan, Burkina Faso, Panama, Singapore, Kyrgyzstan, Switzerland, Djibouti, Chile, China, Mali, Botswana, Republic of Croatia, Cambodia, Indonesia, Portugal, Tajikistan, Vietnam, Malta, Cayman Islands, Paraguay, Saint Helena, Cyprus, Seychelles, Rwanda, Bangladesh, Australia, Austria, Sri Lanka, Gabon Republic, Zimbabwe, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Norway, Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Kiribati, Turkmenistan, Grenada, Greece, Haiti, Greenland, Afghanistan, Montenegro, Mongolia, Nepal, Bahamas, Bahrain, United Kingdom, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Angola, Western Samoa, France, Mozambique, Namibia, Peru, Denmark, Guatemala, Solomon Islands, Vatican City State, Sierra Leone, Nauru, Anguilla, El Salvador, Dominican Republic, Cameroon, Guyana, Azerbaijan Republic, Macau, Georgia, Tonga, San Marino, Eritrea, Saint Kitts-Nevis, Morocco, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Mauritania, Belize, Philippines, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Colombia, Spain, Estonia, Bermuda, Montserrat, Zambia, South Korea, Vanuatu, Ecuador, Albania, Ethiopia, Monaco, Niger, Laos, Ghana, Cape Verde Islands, Moldova, Madagascar, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Lebanon, Liberia, Bolivia, Maldives, Gibraltar, Hong Kong, Central African Republic, Lesotho, Nigeria, Mauritius, Saint Lucia, Jordan, Guinea, Canada, Turks and Caicos Islands, Chad, Andorra, Romania, Costa Rica, India, Mexico, Serbia, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, Japan, Lithuania, Trinidad and Tobago, Malawi, Nicaragua, Finland, Tunisia, Uganda, Luxembourg, Turkey, Germany, Egypt, Latvia, Jamaica, South Africa, Brunei Darussalam, Honduras.
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AUTOGRAPH TURKEY RARE PRESIDENT Cemal Gürsel COUP SIGNED CARD ORIGINAL VINTAGE

Autographed Photo Of Sonja Henie. Also includes autograph by Tyrone Power. Rare

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Autographed Photo Of Sonja Henie. Also includes autograph by Tyrone Power. Rare

Autographed Photo Of Sonja Henie. Also includes autograph by Tyrone Power. Rare
VERY RARE SONJA HENIE And TYRONE POWER Autographed Photo Of Sonja Henie. This item is in the category “Collectibles\Autographs\Celebrities”. The seller is “wilk11961″ and is located in this country: US. This item can be shipped to United States, Greenland, Bermuda, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Canada, Mexico.
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Autographed Photo Of Sonja Henie. Also includes autograph by Tyrone Power. Rare

LENI RIEFENSTAHL rare signed photo

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LENI RIEFENSTAHL rare signed photo

LENI RIEFENSTAHL rare signed photo
This is a rare 4×6 hand-signed postwar photo of legendary film director LENI RIEFENSTAHL. It is an incredibly rare item which I obtained from her, personally. And’Aces of the Luftwaffe’ (and six more). For decades I was also a member of the OdR Assoc. Of Knight’s Cross winners in Germany, etc. Sales to continental United States buyers ONLY. This item is in the category “Collectibles\Autographs\Military”. The seller is “s-mueller” and is located in this country: US. This item can be shipped to United States.
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LENI RIEFENSTAHL rare signed photo

Rare Glee 8x cast signed poster JSA Cory Monteith Lea Michele Kevin McHale COA

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Rare Glee 8x cast signed poster JSA Cory Monteith Lea Michele Kevin McHale COA
Rare Glee 8x cast signed poster JSA Cory Monteith Lea Michele Kevin McHale COA
Rare Glee 8x cast signed poster JSA Cory Monteith Lea Michele Kevin McHale COA
Rare Glee 8x cast signed poster JSA Cory Monteith Lea Michele Kevin McHale COA
Rare Glee 8x cast signed poster JSA Cory Monteith Lea Michele Kevin McHale COA

Rare Glee 8x cast signed poster JSA Cory Monteith Lea Michele Kevin McHale COA
Glee poster signed by 8 cast members. Signed by Cory Monteith, Lea Michele, Chris Colfer, Kevin McHale, Amber Riley, Jenna Ushkowitz, Mark Salling and Dianna Agron. Measures about 11 by 17 inches. Has a good amount of wear and folds, but still looks nice in a frame. This item is in the category “Collectibles\Autographs\Movies”. The seller is “qwerty9188″ and is located in this country: US. This item can be shipped to United States, New Zealand, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Wallis and Futuna, Gambia, Malaysia, Taiwan, Poland, Oman, Suriname, United Arab Emirates, Kenya, Argentina, Guinea-Bissau, Armenia, Uzbekistan, Bhutan, Senegal, Togo, Ireland, Qatar, Burundi, Netherlands, Slovakia, Slovenia, Equatorial Guinea, Thailand, Aruba, Sweden, Iceland, Macedonia, Belgium, Israel, Liechtenstein, Kuwait, Benin, Algeria, Antigua and Barbuda, Swaziland, Italy, Tanzania, Pakistan, Burkina Faso, Panama, Singapore, Kyrgyzstan, Switzerland, Djibouti, Chile, China, Mali, Botswana, Republic of Croatia, Cambodia, Indonesia, Portugal, Tajikistan, Vietnam, Malta, Cayman Islands, Paraguay, Saint Helena, Cyprus, Seychelles, Rwanda, Bangladesh, Australia, Austria, Sri Lanka, Gabon Republic, Zimbabwe, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Norway, Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Kiribati, Turkmenistan, Grenada, Greece, Haiti, Greenland, Yemen, Afghanistan, Montenegro, Mongolia, Nepal, Bahamas, Bahrain, United Kingdom, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Angola, Western Samoa, France, Mozambique, Namibia, Peru, Denmark, Guatemala, Solomon Islands, Vatican City State, Sierra Leone, Nauru, Anguilla, El Salvador, Dominican Republic, Cameroon, Guyana, Azerbaijan Republic, Macau, Georgia, Tonga, San Marino, Eritrea, Saint Kitts-Nevis, Morocco, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Mauritania, Belize, Philippines, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Colombia, Spain, Estonia, Bermuda, Montserrat, Zambia, South Korea, Vanuatu, Ecuador, Albania, Ethiopia, Monaco, Niger, Laos, Ghana, Cape Verde Islands, Moldova, Madagascar, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Lebanon, Liberia, Bolivia, Maldives, Gibraltar, Hong Kong, Central African Republic, Lesotho, Nigeria, Mauritius, Saint Lucia, Jordan, Guinea, Canada, Turks and Caicos Islands, Chad, Andorra, Romania, Costa Rica, India, Mexico, Serbia, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, Japan, Lithuania, Trinidad and Tobago, Malawi, Nicaragua, Finland, Tunisia, Uganda, Luxembourg, Brazil, Turkey, Germany, Egypt, Latvia, Jamaica, South Africa, Brunei Darussalam, Honduras.
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  • Signed: Yes

Rare Glee 8x cast signed poster JSA Cory Monteith Lea Michele Kevin McHale COA

1991 Jazz Contract Signed Rare Nbc Autograph Wynton Marsalis Today Show

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1991 Jazz Contract Signed Rare Nbc Autograph Wynton Marsalis Today Show

1991 Jazz Contract Signed Rare Nbc Autograph Wynton Marsalis Today Show
A GUEST CONTRACT FOR TODAY SHOW. SIGNED BY JAZZ LEGEND. ON 8.5X11 INCH PAPER. Wynton Learson Marsalis is an American trumpeter, composer, teacher, and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. He has promoted classical and jazz music, often to young audiences. Successful jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis (born 1961) is America’s top modern purist of the genre. Influenced by the jazz artists from the early 1900s through the 1960s and annoyed with the music labeled “jazz” in the 1970s, Marsalis took on the mission of not only creating “true” jazz, but teaching its definition as well. Asuccessful jazz and classical musician and composer, Marsalis had won more than eight Grammy awards and released over 30 albums in both genres by the late 1990s. In 1997, he received the first Pulitzer Prize ever awarded for nonclassical music. He also co-founded and directed the ground-breaking jazz program at New York’s Lincoln Center, and became an influential jazz educator for America’s youth. Marsalis was born into a family of musicians on October 18, 1961, in New Orleans. His father, Ellis Marsalis, played piano and worked as a jazz improvisation instructor at the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts. Before dedicating her life to raising her six sons, Dolores Marsalis sang in jazz bands. The second eldest child, Wynton’s older brother Branford set the stage as the family’s first musical prodigy. Branford Marsalis played both clarinet and piano by the time he entered the second grade, and eventually became a professional saxophonist. Wynton Marsalis didn’t follow his brother’s lead quite as diligently, however. When he was six years old, his father played with Al Hirt, who gave the young Marsalis one of his old trumpets. Wynton Marsalis made his performing debut at the tender age of seven when he played “The Marine Hymn” at the Xavier Junior School of Music. As a child, Marsalis didn’t take practicing the trumpet very seriously. He spent more time with his school work, playing basketball, and participating in Boy Scout activities. Discovered Influences in Two Genres. When Marsalis was 12, his family moved from Kenner, Louisiana, to New Orleans. When he listened to a recording by jazz trumpeter Clifford Brown, he was moved to take his trumpet seriously. “I didn’t know someone could play a trumpet like that, ” Marsalis later told Mitchell Seidel in Down Beat. Soon after, a college student gave Marsalis an album by classical trumpet player Maurice Andre, which also sparked his interest in classical music. Marsalis began taking lessons from John Longo in New Orleans, who had an interest in both genres, as well. “I hardly ever even paid him, ” Marsalis recalled to Howard Mandell in Down Beat, and he used to give me two-and three-hour lessons, never looking at the clock. Marsalis attended Benjamin Franklin High School in New Orleans, where he graduated with a 3.98 grade point average on a 4.0 scale. He became a National Merit Scholarship finalist and received scholarship offers from Yale University, among other prestigious schools. He also attended the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts. At the age of 14, he won a Louisiana youth competition. This award granted him the opportunity to perform with the New Orleans Philharmonic Orchestra as a featured soloist. During his high school years, he played a variety of music with a number of groups, including first trumpet with the New Orleans Civic Orchestra, the New Orleans Brass Quintet, an a teenage funk group called the Creators, along with his brother Branford. In 1977, Marsalis won the “Most Outstanding Musician Award” at the Eastern Music Festival in North Carolina. Started Spreading the News. He went on to study music at the Berkshire Music Center at Tanglewood in Massachusetts, where he received their Harvey Shapiro Award for the outstanding brass player. He turned down the scholarship offers from Ivy League schools to attend New York’s Juilliard School of Music on full scholarship. While in school, he played with the Brooklyn Philharmonia and the Mexico City Symphony. He supported himself with a position in the pit band for Sweeney Todd on Broadway. In 1980, Art Blakey asked Marsalis to spend the summer touring with his Jazz Messengers. His performances began to attract national attention, and he eventually became the band’s musical director. While on the road with Blakey, Marsalis decided to change his image and began wearing suits to his performances. “For us, it was a statement of seriousness, ” Marsalis told Howard Reich in Down Beat. We come out here, we try to entertain our audience and play, and we want to look good so they can feel good. The following year, Marsalis decided to leave Juilliard to continue his education on the road. He played with Blakey and received an offer to tour with Herbie Hancock’s V. Marsalis jumped at the chance, as the V. Included bassist Ron Carter and drummer Tony Williams, who had both played with Miles Davis. “I knew he was only 19, just on the scene-it’s a lot to put on somebody, ” Hancock told Steve Bloom in Rolling Stone. But then I realized if we don’t hand down some of this stuff that happened with Miles, it’ll just die when we die. Marsalis performed throughout the United States and Japan with the V. And played on the double album Quartet. The increased attention led to an unprecedented recording contract with Columbia Records for both jazz and classical music. He released his self-titled debut album as a leader in 1981. Later that year, he formed his own jazz band with his brother Branford, Kenny Kirkland, Jeff Watts, and bassists Phil Bowler and Ray Drummond. His success didn’t go unnoticed in his hometown, either. New Orleans Mayor Ernest Morial proclaimed a Wynton Marsalis Day in February of 1982. Wynton Marsalis recorded one side of an album with his father Ellis and Branford Marsalis, called For Fathers and Sons. The other side was recorded by saxophonist Chico Freeman and his father Von Freeman. In 1983, Marsalis released jazz and classical LPS simultaneously. The recording and Marsalis received many comparisons to Miles Davis and other musicians of the 1960s. “We don’t reclaim music from the 1960s; music is a continuous thing, ” Marsalis explained to Mandell in Down Beat. We’re just trying to play what we hear as the logical extension. A tree’s got to have roots. He recorded his classical debut, Trumpet Concertos, in London with Raymond Leppard and the National Philharmonic Orchestra. In 1984, Marsalis set another precedent by becoming the first artist to be nominated or win two Grammy awards in two categories during the same year. Big Sounds in the Big Apple. He won another Grammy award in 1987 for his album Marsalis Standard Time Vol. During the same year, he co-founded the Jazz at Lincoln Center program in New York City. When the program began, Marsalis became the artistic director for the eleven-month season. As part of his contract, he had to compose one piece of music for each year. Despite his new position, he continued to record and tour in both jazz and classical music. He released Majesty of the Blues in 1989 and The Resolution of Romance in 1990. He dedicated the latter to his mother, and it included contributions from his father Ellis and his brother Delfeayo. “If you are really dealing with music, you are trying to elevate consciousness about romance, ” Marsalis explained to Dave Helland in Down Beat. Music is so closely tied up with sex and sensuality that when you are dealing with music, you are trying to enter the world of that experience, trying to address the richness of the interaction between a man and a woman, not its lowest reduction. Marsalis’ study of New Orleans styles resulted in a trilogy called Soul Gestures in Southern Blue in 1990. Describing the set, Howard Reich wrote in Down Beat, the crying blue notes of’Levee Low Moan,’ the church harmonies of’Psalm 26,’ the sultry ambiance of’Thick in the South’ all recalled different settings and epochs in New Orleans music. And yet the tautness of Marsalis’ septet, the economy of the motifs, and the adventurousness of the harmonies proclaimed this as new music, as well. Using history to create his present sound became Marsalis’ goal, along with exploring the rich tapestry of the different eras and styles of jazz. His first commission for the jazz program at Lincoln Center, In This House, On This Morning was performed in 1993. In it, he used the music of the African-American church as his primary inspiration. Evolved into Jazz Spokesman. In the fall of 1994, Marsalis announced that his septet had disbanded. However, he continued composing, recording, and performing. The following year, he produced a four-part video series called Marsalis on Music, which aired on PBS. In May of 1995, his first string quartet, (At the) Octoroon Balls debuted at the Lincoln Center. He continued to release classical works as well. He re-recorded the Haydn, Hummel, and Leopold Mozart concertos from Trumpet Concertos in 1994. Two years later, he released In Gabriel’s Garden, which he recorded with the English Chamber Orchestra and Anthony Newman on harp-sichord and organ. “I want to keep developing myself as a complete musician, ” Marsalis told Ken Smith in Stereo Review, so I take on projects either to teach me something new or else to document some development. With this new Baroque album, I felt that I’d never really played that music before with the right authority or rhythmic fire. ” Marsalis produced the Olympic Jazz Summit at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, and won 1996 Peabody Awards for both Marsalis on Music and for his National Public Radio Show “Wynton Marsalis: Making the Music. At the end of 1996, Time magazine named him one of America’s 25 Most Influential People. A major part of his influence went out to the country’s youth. When he’s not working on his own music, he traveled to schools across the country to talk about music in an effort to continue the tradition of jazz. “I’m always ready to put my own neck on the line for change, ” Marsalis told Lynn Norment in Ebony. No school is too bad for me to go to. I’ll try to teach anybody. We are all striving for the same thing, to make our community stronger and richer. That’s what the jazz musician has always been about. In April of 1994, his biggest piece, Blood on the Fields, had its debut performance at the Lincoln Center. Marsalis composed the oratorio for three singers and a 14-piece orchestra, and it described the story of two Africans, Leona and Jesse, who found love despite the difficulties of American slavery. “I wanted to orchestrate for the larger ensemble and write for voices-something I’d never done, ” Marsalis said to V. Peterson in a People magazine interview. I wanted to make the music combine with the words, yet make the characters seem real. With Blood on the Fields, Marsalis won the first non-classical Pulitzer Prize award in history. Because of his piece, the selection board changed the criteria from “for larger forms including chamber, orchestra, song, dance, or other forms of musical theater” to for distinguished musical composition of significant dimension. Columbia Records released the oratorio on a three-CD set in June of 1997. He followed the release with recordings of two other previously performed works on one album. His collaboration with New York City Ballet director, Peter Martins’ Jazz/ Six Syncopated Movements and Jump Start written for ballet director, Twyla Tharp, were both included on the record. Marsalis’ work in jazz and classical music combined with his often outspoken attitude toward musical integrity surrounded him with controversy throughout his career. Despite the criticism, his talent was never questioned. As Eric Alterman described in The Nation, he’s a man universally acknowledged to be a master musician and perhaps the most ambitious composer alive. Who gave you your first trumpet? I got my first trumpet when I was six from Al Hirt. My father was playing piano in his band, and as a Christmas present I received a trumpet – a LeBlanc. What influence did your father/mother have on your desire to become a musician? My father was an example to me, because of the type of integrity he had when he would play. I also liked the musicians that my father played with. They were always around: James Black the drummer, Nat Perlatt on saxophone. I liked Richard Payne the bass player, the great clarinetist Alvin Batiste. John Fernandez was a great trumpet player and a teacher. I didn’t like the music they played so much but I liked them. And I always liked to hang at the gigs and listen to them play and see what was going on. Also, for that whole generation of Southern musicians – like my father, like Alvin Batiste – playing the music was a stab against segregation. It was a matter of their identity, of their high-minded nature and of them as men. In their own way, it was a sign of protest against the environment they grew up in. Not just in terms of segregation of whites, because black people were also apathetic toward what they were playing. Some people considered it to be devil’s music, and others just considered it to be a waste of time. So they had certain defiance in their personality that I always could gravitate toward in life. My mama stayed on us about practicing. She took her time to take us to music classes and see that we received an education. So, in terms of discipline and investing her time and love and energy in us – she was always doing that for me and all my brothers. Did you always want to be a jazz musician or did you try other genres first? I always wanted to be a jazz musician because I liked the way that they played, but you couldn’t get a gig playing jazz. So I played funk gigs all the time with a band called Funky Creative. We used to play clubs, dances, proms. I joined the band when I was 12, and I played until I was 16. We’d work every weekend, and sometimes on the weekdays. We had one of the most popular bands in New Orleans, playing Top 40 cover songs. This was the 70’s, so everybody had their afro, bellbottom jeans, platform heeled shoes. We had the whole uniform – we had these jumpsuits and this all this crazy looking stuff. It took us an hour just to put our equipment up. Which artists have influenced you the most? A lot of jazz musicians like Monk, Duke, Miles, Charlie Parker, Dizzy, Jelly Roll Morton, Wayne Shorter. I listen to a lot of them and try to incorporate things that I like into my own style. Trumpet players such as Maurice Andre, Adolph Hofner, Cootie Williams, Ray Nance and Sweets Edison have all had an influence on my style. When I was in high school, Clark Terry influenced me a lot. I can’t forget him. In terms of classical music, I like Stravinsky and Beethoven a lot. What is the best advice another musician has ever given you? One time Sweets Edison told me, Don’t play like you’re trying to prove that you can play. Are different skills required to perform classical vs. In jazz, you have a heavier sound, a heavier attack than in classical. Also, classical music is all written down, so you have to concentrate on executing it. In jazz, you’re making the music up, so you have to know the harmony of the songs, and how to interact with the different musicians. It’s a matter of reflexes. Who are the greatest trumpeters (or musicians of) of all time? The first one is Gottfried Reich. Bach wrote the Brandenberg Concerto for him. In mythology, it really starts with Gabriel. Gabriel actually was a woman. They were cheating women even back then. Her name was actually Gabrielle. She was the first great trumpet player. Then you have the German trumpet player, Gottfried Reich. Then there’s Anton Veidenger. He’s the guy who the Haydn trumpet concerto and the Hummel trumpet concerto were written for. Then you have all the great cornet soloists. There are so many of them. A lot of Americans. Patrick Gilmore had a great band after the Civil War. Then there were all the great soloists with John Philip Sousa. You have Herbert L. Clarke, Krill, George Swift, Jules Levy, Del Stagers. Each one had a different specialty. Some could play double tongue real fast, some slur, some do triple tongue, some trick fingers. Everybody had a different thing. Some played real sweet. Matthew Arbuckle used to have a battle of cornets. You’d see them go in. It would be who could play the most. Then you got the jazz musicians: Buddy Bolden, King Oliver, Freddy Keppard, Buddy Petit. Then you get to Red Allen, and then you’ve got Louis Armstrong. From there, you get all the trumpet players influenced by him. Various trumpet players like Buddy Barry, Cootie Williams, Rex Stewart, Ray Nance, Sweets Edison, Buck Clayton, Roy Eldrige, Doug Mascoll. There are a lot of people. At the same time, there are the great classical trumpet players, William Vacchiano and Max Schlossberg. Then you come up in the more modern era with Dizzy and Miles, Freddy Hubbard, Don Ellis, Don Cherry, Booker Little, Lee Morgan. In classical music, there’s Aldoph Herseth, a great trumpet player. There’s Maurice Andre, a classical trumpet player, Rafael Mendez, an all around unbelievable trumpeter, Doc Sevrenson, Al Hirt. You start to get a lot of great trumpet players of different types. Do you know everything there is to know about trumpet playing? There’s so much to know, it’s hard to know everything about anything. There’s so much to know, period. What performers today do you find to be the most interesting or promising? I like Nicholas Payton, I like Roy Hargrove, Terence Blanchard. Dave Douglas is interesting. You’ve got a lot of young trumpet players. Omar Butler, a young student at Juilliard. Keyon Harold is an interesting trumpet player who plays with a lot of feeling. Jermanie Smith, Mike Rodriguez, Trombone Shorty on the trumpet from New Orleans can play. Dominic Faranacci, Brandon Lee and Tatum Greenblatt are a few of the great young kids coming out of high school. What advice would you give a youngster who is interested in playing the trumpet? You don’t have to practice for hours. Just get on your horn every day and listen to the people who really can play. Just try to keep going and develop. Why are you so involved in education, master classes, etc. My father was always teaching, and the musicians he played with were all teachers. I was always taking classes. I just grew up around it. What qualities do you look for in a band member? Individuality, deep sound and a willingness to do work. Is your new trumpet one of a kind? Tell us about it. It’s made by Dave Monette and it’s one of a kind-he made it for me. It has personalized engravings from all aspects of my life. Symbols of playing, the great “j master” Marcus Roberts is on there, things about my kids. This is the first trumpet Monette ever made in this way. He has subsequently made other trumpets like that. Not with the same designs on it, of course. You’ve described jazz as America’s music. Well not to be a sloganist, but it’s part of the fabric of our country-the way we speak our language, the way we interact with each other, the tensions and dynamics that make our country what it is, the basic forms and things that we use to comport ourselves-all of that is in jazz. You can see it in songs like “Birmingham Breakdown, ” Duke Ellington’s East St. Louis Toodle-oo, ” and “Sidewalks of New York. Jazz also shows the influence of the Broadway show tune, which is an American tradition. There’s also the idea of improvisation, which was developed in America. There’s a whole relationship between the history of the music and race relations in our country. Jazz just deals with a lot of different aspects of our way of life. When you became the first jazz artist to win a Pulitzer Prize (for “Blood On The Fields”) you spoke often of Duke Ellington. I feel it’s always important to stress the fact that I’m a part of a continuum, and that our music continues. It’s not a fad, it continues on. And Duke laid the ground work for us to understand how to compose with the blues harmonies and what the American orchestra was. He laid out the framework for it. And it’s important for all the musicians that come after to realize it’s a continuum. It doesn’t live and die with anyone personally. Is it true that you often have several different projects underway at once? Why do you work so hard? I like to do a lot of different things. I like to stay busy. I grew up working all the time, and that’s just what I like to do. It doesn’t bother me really. I’m used to it. Your historic “Swinging Into the 21st” series ushered in the new millennium. What are you striving to achieve in these years ahead? We’ve laid out a good framework with Jazz at Lincoln Center. In the coming years, we want to continue to play the great music of our tradition, and continue to write new music that addresses the fundamentals while introducing new things. We want to collaborate with more musicians around the world-New Zealand musicians, Argentinean musicians-in order to deal with the ongoing relationship of jazz music to other forms of music. This is something that was well established by Jelly Roll Morton, Duke Ellington and Miles Davis with records like Sketches of Spain. Dizzy Gillespie did many works with Afro-Cuban music and later with the United Nations orchestra. I want to continue to go in that direction-continue to collaborate with different arts and arts organizations, like the New York Philharmonic, the New York City Ballet, The Chamber Music Society, The Film Society and Lincoln Center Institute. We want to do a lot of different things, get involved in some theater projects, try and write an opera, try to write a mass. I just want to expand and write more sophisticated music. In what way do you think the Internet will impact the arts? The Internet is just transference of information, and music is about information- passing information on with you. What you think, what you feel, what is revealed to you to anybody who’s interested in it. It’s just another tool of communication. What accomplishment are you most pleased with as Artistic Director of JALC? That we’ve successfully challenged the status quo of our music. When we started, nobody was thinking about Duke Ellington’s music and the seriousness of jazz as an art form. We’ve been able to challenge a lot of what was held to be true because of the presence of Jazz at Lincoln Center. We’ve done dances, we’ve brought musicians in from all over the world, we’ve played concerts. We’ve commissioned pieces and done first-ever concerts. Gerry Mulligan requested that, when he died, we do his posthumous concert and play his music. He told me to make sure that I do it. Just the fact that a musician of that magnitude and stature would make that request is a serious thing. He wanted us to play the New Orleans March, and we did. That was one of the greatest tributes we could have. Wynton Marsalis is an internationally acclaimed musician, composer and bandleader, an educator and a leading advocate of American culture. He has created and performed an expansive range of music from quartets to big bands, chamber music ensembles to symphony orchestras and tap dance to ballet, expanding the vocabulary for jazz and classical music with a vital body of work that places him among the world’s finest musicians and composers. Always swinging, Marsalis blows his trumpet with a clear tone, a depth of emotion and a unique, virtuosic style derived from an encyclopedic range of trumpet techniques. When you hear Marsalis play, you’re hearing life being played out through music. Marsalis’ core beliefs and foundation for living are based on the principals of jazz. He promotes individual creativity (improvisation), collective cooperation (swing), gratitude and good manners (sophistication), and faces adversity with persistent optimism (the blues). With his evolved humanity and through his selfless work, Marsalis has elevated the quality of human engagement for individuals, social networks and cultural institutions throughout the world. Wynton was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, on October 18, 1961, to Ellis and Dolores Marsalis, the second of six sons. At an early age, he exhibited a superior aptitude for music and a desire to participate in American culture. At age eight Wynton performed traditional New Orleans music in the Fairview Baptist Church band led by legendary banjoist Danny Barker, and at 14 he performed with the New Orleans Philharmonic. During high school Wynton performed with the New Orleans Symphony Brass Quintet, New Orleans Community Concert Band, New Orleans Youth Orchestra, New Orleans Symphony, various jazz bands and with the popular local funk band, the Creators. At age 17 Wynton became the youngest musician ever to be admitted to Tanglewood’s Berkshire Music Center. Despite his youth, he was awarded the school’s prestigious Harry Shapiro Award for outstanding brass student. Wynton moved to New York City to attend Juilliard in 1979. When he started gigging around the City, the grapevine began to buzz. The excitement around Wynton attracted the attention of Columbia Records executives who signed him to his first recording contract. In 1980 Wynton seized the opportunity to join the Jazz Messengers to study under master drummer and bandleader Art Blakey. It was from Blakey that Wynton acquired his concept for bandleading and for bringing intensity to each and every performance. In the years to follow Wynton performed with Sarah Vaughan, Dizzy Gillespie, Sweets Edison, Clark Terry, John Lewis, Sonny Rollins, Ron Carter, Herbie Hancock, Tony Williams and countless other jazz legends. Wynton assembled his own band in 1981 and hit the road, performing over 120 concerts every year for 15 consecutive years. With the power of his superior musicianship, the infectious sound of his swinging bands and a far-reaching series of performances and music workshops, Marsalis rekindled widespread interest in jazz throughout the world and inspired a renaissance that attracted a new generation of fine young talent to jazz. A look at the more distinguished jazz musicians to emerge for the decades to follow reveals the efficacy of Marsalis’ workshops and includes: James Carter, Christian McBride, Roy Hargrove, Marcus Roberts, Wycliffe Gordon, Harry Connick Jr. Nicholas Payton, Eric Reed and Eric Lewis, to name a few. Wynton also embraced the jazz lineage to bring recognition to the older generation of overlooked jazz musicians and prompted the re-issue of jazz catalogs by record companies worldwide. Wynton’s love of the music of Bach, Beethoven, Mozart and others drove him to pursue a career in classical music as well. He recorded the Haydn, Hummel and Leopold Mozart trumpet concertos at age 20. His debut recording received glorious reviews and won the Grammy Award® for Best Classical Soloist with an Orchestra. Marsalis went on to record 10 additional classical records, all to critical acclaim. Wynton performed with leading orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Boston Pops, The Cleveland Orchestra, Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, Toronto Symphony Orchestra and London’s Royal Philharmonic, working with an eminent group of conductors including: Leppard, Dutoit, Maazel, Slatkin, Salonen and Tilson-Thomas. A timeless highlight of Wynton’s classical career is his collaboration with soprano Kathleen Battle on their recording Baroque Duet. Famed classical trumpeter Maurice André praised Wynton as potentially the greatest trumpeter of all time. His recordings consistently incorporate a heavy emphasis on the blues, an inclusive approach to all forms of jazz from New Orleans to modern jazz, persistent use of swing as the primary rhythm, an embrace of the American popular song, individual and collective improvisation, and a panoramic vision of compositional styles from dittys to dynamic call and response patterns (both within the rhythm section and between the rhythm section and horn players). Wynton Marsalis is a prolific and inventive composer. He is the world’s first jazz artist to perform and compose across the full jazz spectrum from its New Orleans roots to bebop to modern jazz. He has also composed a violin concerto and four symphonies to introduce new rhythms to the classical music canon. Marsalis collaborated with the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society in 1995 to compose the string quartet At The Octoroon Balls, and again in 1998 to create a response to Stravinsky’s A Soldier’s Tale with his composition A Fiddler’s Tale. Several prominent choreographers embraced Wynton’s inventiveness with commissions to compose suites to fuel their imagination for movement. This impressive list includes Garth Fagan (Citi Movement-Griot New York & Lighthouse/Lightening Rod), Peter Martins at the New York City Ballet (Jazz: Six Syncopated Movements and Them Twos), Twyla Tharp with the American Ballet Theatre (Jump Start), Judith Jamison at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre (Sweet Release and Here. Now), and Savion Glover (Petite Suite and Spaces). Wynton reconnected audiences with the beauty of the American popular song with his collection of standards recordings (Standard Time Volumes I-VI). He re-introduced the joy in New Orleans jazz with his recording The Majesty Of The Blues. And he extended the jazz musician’s interplay with the blues in Uptown Ruler, Levee Low Moan, Thick In The South and other blues recordings. Marsalis introduced a fresh conception for extended form compositions with Citi Movement, his sanctified In This House, On This Morning and Blood On The Fields. His inventive interplay with melody, harmony and rhythm, along with his lyrical voicing and tonal coloring assert new possibilities for the jazz ensemble. In his dramatic oratorio Blood On The Fields, Wynton draws upon the blues, work songs, chants, spirituals, New Orleans jazz, Ellingtonesque orchestral arrangements and Afro-Caribbean rhythms — using Greek chorus-style recitations with great affect to move the work along. The New York Times Magazine said Blood On The Fields marked a symbolic moment when the full heritage of the line, Ellington through Mingus, was extended into the present. ” The San Francisco Examiner stated, “Marsalis’ orchestral arrangements are magnificent. Duke Ellington’s shadings and themes come and go but Marsalis’ free use of dissonance, counter rhythms and polyphonics is way ahead of Ellington’s mid-century era. Blood on the Fields became the first jazz composition ever to be awarded the coveted Pulitzer Prize in Music in 1997. Wynton extended his achievements in Blood On The Fields with All Rise, an epic composition for big band, gospel choir, and symphony orchestra – a classic work of high art – which was performed by the New York Philharmonic under the baton of Kurt Masur along with the Morgan State University Choir and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra (December 1999). Marsalis collaborated with Ghanaian master drummer Yacub Addy to create Congo Square, a groundbreaking composition combining harmonies from America’s jazz tradition with fundamental rituals in African percussion and vocals (2006). For the anniversary of the Abyssinian Baptist Church’s 200th year of service, Marsalis blended Baptist church choir cadences with blues accents and big band swing rhythms to compose Abyssinian 200: A Celebration, which was performed by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and Abyssinian’s 100 voice choir before packed houses in New York City (May 2008). In the fall of 2009 the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra premiered Marsalis’ composition Blues Symphony. Marsalis infused blues and ragtime rhythms with symphonic orchestrations to create a fresh type of enjoyment of classical repertoire. Marsalis further expanded his repertoire for symphony orchestra with Swing Symphony, employing complex layers of collective improvisation. The work was premiered by the renowned Berlin Philharmonic and performed with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra in June 2010, creating new possibilities for audiences to experience a symphony orchestra swing. Wynton made a significant addition to his oeuvre with Concerto in D, a violin concerto composed for virtuoso Nicola Benedetti. The concerto is in four movements, “Rhapsody, ” “Rhondo, ” “Blues, ” and Hootenanny. With this masterful composition Marsalis celebrates the American vernacular in ultra-sophisticated ways. Its fundamental character is Americana with sweeping melodies, jazzy orchestral dissonances, blues-tinged themes, fancy fiddling and a rhythmic swagger. Concerto in D received its world premiere by the London Symphony Orchestra in November 2015 and its American premiere by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Ravinia in July 2016. In December 2016 Marsalis again demonstrated his expansive musical imagination and dexterity for seasoning the classical music realm with jazz and blues influences with The Jungle, performed by the New York Philharmonic along with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. “The Jungle, ” according to Marsalis, is a musical portrait of New York City, the most fluid, pressure-packed, and cosmopolitan metropolis the modern world has ever seen. The New York Philharmonic and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra re-united to present The Jungle in Shanghai in July 2017. Marsalis’ rich and expansive body of music for the ages places him among the world’s most significant composers. Television, Radio & Literary. In the fall of 1995 Wynton launched two major broadcast events. In October on PBS he premiered Marsalis On Music, an educational television series on jazz and classical music. Written and hosted by Marsalis, the series and was enjoyed by millions of parents and children. Writers distinguished Marsalis On Music with comparisons to Leonard Bernstein’s celebrated Young People’s Concerts of the 50s and 60s. That same month National Public Radio aired the first of Marsalis’ 26-week series entitled Making the Music. These entertaining and insightful radio shows were the first full exposition of jazz music in American broadcast history. Wynton’s radio and television series were awarded the most prestigious distinction in broadcast journalism, the George Foster Peabody Award. The Spirit of New Orleans, Wynton’s poetic tribute to the New Orleans Saints’ first Super Bowl victory (Super Bowl XLIV) also received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Short Feature (2011). From 2012 to 2014 Wynton served as cultural correspondent for CBS News, writing and presenting features for CBS This Morning on an array topics from Martin Luther King, Jr. Nelson Mandela and Louis Armstrong to Juke Joints, BBQ, the Quarterback & Conducting and Thankfulness. Marsalis has written six books: Sweet Swing Blues on the Road, Jazz in the Bittersweet Blues of Life, To a Young Musician: Letters from the Road, Jazz ABZ (an A to Z collection of poems celebrating jazz greats), Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life and Squeak, Rumble, Whomp! A sonic adventure for kids. Wynton Marsalis has won nine Grammy Awards® in grand style. In 1983 he became the only artist ever to win Grammy Awards® for both jazz and classical records; and he repeated the distinction by winning jazz and classical Grammys® again in 1984. Honorary degrees have been conferred upon Wynton by over 30 of America’s leading academic institutions including Columbia, Harvard, Howard, Princeton and Yale (see Exhibit A). Elsewhere Wynton was honored with the Louis Armstrong Memorial Medal and the Algur H. Meadows Award for Excellence in the Arts. He was inducted into the American Academy of Achievement and was dubbed an Honorary Dreamer by the I Have a Dream Foundation. The New York Urban League awarded Wynton with the Frederick Douglass Medallion for distinguished leadership and the American Arts Council presented him with the Arts Education Award. Time magazine selected Wynton as one of America’s most promising leaders under age 40 in 1995, and in 1996 Time celebrated Marsalis again as one of America’s 25 most influential people. In November 2005 Wynton Marsalis received The National Medal of Arts, the highest award given to artists by the United States Government. United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan proclaimed Wynton Marsalis an international ambassador of goodwill for the Unites States by appointing him a UN Messenger of Peace (2001). Marsalis was honored with The National Humanities Medal by President Barak Obama in 2015, in recognition of his work in deepened the nation’s understanding of the humanities and broadened American citizens’ engagement with history, literature, languages and philosophy. In 1997 Wynton Marsalis became the first jazz musician ever to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music for his epic oratorio Blood On The Fields. During the five preceding decades the Pulitzer Prize jury refused to recognize jazz musicians and their improvisational music, reserving this distinction for classical composers. In the years following Marsalis’ award, the Pulitzer Prize for Music has been awarded posthumously to Duke Ellington, George Gershwin, Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane. In a personal note to Wynton, Zarin Mehta wrote. I was not surprised at your winning the Pulitzer Prize for Blood On The Fields. It is a broad, beautifully painted canvas that impresses and inspires. It speaks to us all. I’m sure that, somewhere in the firmament, Buddy Bolden, Louis Armstrong and legions of others are smiling down on you. Wynton’s creativity has been celebrated throughout the world. He won the Netherlands’ Edison Award and the Grand Prix Du Disque of France. The Mayor of Vitoria, Spain, awarded Wynton with the city’s Gold Medal – its most coveted distinction. Britain’s senior conservatoire, the Royal Academy of Music, granted Mr. Marsalis Honorary Membership, the Academy’s highest decoration for a non-British citizen (1996). The city of Marciac, France, erected a bronze statue in his honor. The French Ministry of Culture appointed Wynton the rank of Knight in the Order of Arts and Literature and in the fall of 2009 Wynton received France’s highest distinction, the insignia Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, an honor that was first awarded by Napoleon Bonaparte. French Ambassador, His Excellency Pierre Vimont, captured the evening best with his introduction. We are gathered here tonight to express the French government’s recognition of one of the most influential figures in American music, an outstanding artist, in one word: a visionary. I want to stress how important your work has been for both the American and the French. I want to put the emphasis on the main values and concerns that we all share: the importance of education and transmission of culture from one generation to the other, and a true commitment to the profoundly democratic idea that lies in jazz music. I strongly believe that, for you, jazz is more than just a musical form. It is tradition, it is part of American history and culture and life. To you, jazz is the sound of democracy. And from this democratic nature of jazz derives openness, generosity, and universality. Jazz at Lincoln Center. In 1987 Wynton Marsalis co-founded a jazz program at Lincoln Center. In July 1996, due to its significant success, Jazz at Lincoln Center (JALC) was installed as a new constituent of Lincoln Center, equal in stature with the New York Philharmonic, Metropolitan Opera, and New York City Ballet – a historic moment for jazz as an art form and for Lincoln Center as a cultural institution. In October 2004, with the assistance of a dedicated Board and staff, Marsalis opened Frederick P. Rose Hall, the world’s first institution for jazz. The complex contains three state-of-the-art performance spaces (including the first concert hall designed specifically for jazz) along with recording, broadcast, rehearsal and educational facilities. Jazz at Lincoln Center has become a preferred venue for New York jazz fans and a destination for travelers from throughout the world. Wynton presently serves as Managing and Artistic Director for Jazz at Lincoln Center. Under his leadership Jazz at Lincoln Center has developed an international agenda presenting rich and diverse programming that includes concerts, debates, film forums, dances, television and radio broadcasts, and educational activities. The JALC mission is to entertain, enrich and expand a global community for jazz through performance, education and advocacy, and to bolster the cultural infrastructure for jazz globally. Jazz at Lincoln Center has become a mecca for learning as well as a hub for performance. Their comprehensive educational programming includes a Band Director’s Academy, a hugely popular concert series for kids called Jazz for Young People, Jazz in the Schools, a Middle School Jazz Academy, WeBop! (for kids ages 8 months to 5 years), an annual High School Jazz Band Competition & Festival that reaches over 2000 bands in 50 states and Canada. In 2009 Wynton created and presented Ballad of the American Arts before a capacity crowd at the Kennedy Center. The lecture/performance was written to elucidate the essential role the arts have played in establishing America’s cultural identity. “This is our story, this is our song, ” states Marsalis, and if well sung, it tells us who we are and where we belong. In 2011 Harvard University President Drew Faust invited Wynton to enrich the cultural life of the University community. Wynton responded by creating a 6 lecture series which he delivered over the ensuing 3 years entitled Hidden In Plain View: Meanings in American Music, with the goal of fostering a stronger appreciation for the arts and a higher level of cultural literacy in academia. From 2015 to 2021 Wynton will serve as an A. White Professor at Cornell University. White Professors are charged with the mandate to enliven the intellectual and cultural lives of university students. Wynton Marsalis has devoted his life to uplifting populations worldwide with the egalitarian spirit of jazz. And while his body of work is enough to fill two lifetimes, Wynton continues to work tirelessly to contribute even more to our world’s cultural landscape. It has been said that he is an artist for whom greatness is not just possible, but inevitable. The most extraordinary dimension of Wynton Marsalis, however, is not his accomplishments but his character. It is the lesser-known part of this man who finds endless ways to give of himself. It is the person who waited in an empty parking lot for one full hour after a concert in Baltimore, waiting for a single student to return from home with his horn for a trumpet lesson. It is the citizen who personally funds scholarships for students and covers medical expenses for those in need. At the same time, he assumed a leadership role on the Bring Back New Orleans Cultural Commission where he was instrumental in shaping a master plan that would revitalize the city’s cultural base. From My Sister’s Place (a shelter for battered women) to Graham Windham (a shelter for homeless children), the Children’s Defense Fund, Amnesty International, the Sloan Kettering Cancer Institute, Food For All Seasons (a food bank for the elderly and disadvantaged), Very Special Arts (an organization that provides experiences in dance, drama, literature, and music for individuals with physical and mental disabilities) to the Newark Boys Chorus School (a full-time academic music school for disadvantaged youths), the Hugs Foundation (Help Us Give Smiles – provides free life changing surgical procedures for children with microtia, cleft lip and other facial deformities) and many, many more – Wynton responded enthusiastically to the call for service. It is Wynton Marsalis’ commitment to the improvement of life for all people that portrays the best of his character and humanity. Brown University (Doctor of Music, 1988). Southern University at New Orleans (Doctor of Music, 1988). University at Buffalo – State University of New York (Doctor of Music, 1990). Boston University (Doctor of Music, 1992). Academy of Southern Arts & Letters (Doctor of Philosophy in Arts, 1993). University of Miami (Doctor of Music, 1994). Hunter College (Doctor of Humane Letters, 1995). Manhattan School of Music (Doctor of Music, 1995). Princeton University (Doctor of Arts, 1995). Yale University (Doctor of Music, 1995). Royal Academy of Music (Honorary Member, 1996). Brandeis University (Doctor of Humane Letters, 1996). Columbia University (Doctor of Music, 1996). Governors State University (Doctor of Humane Letters, 1996). Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Doctor of Fine Arts, 1996). University of Scranton (Doctor of Fine Arts, 1996). Amherst College (Doctor of Music, 1997). Howard University (Doctor of Music, 1997). Long Island University (Doctor of Music, 1997). Rutgers University (Doctor of Fine Arts, 1997). Bard College (Doctor of Fine Arts, 1998). Haverford College (Doctor of Humane Letters, 1998). University of Massachusetts Amherst (Doctor of Fine Arts, 1998). Middlebury College (Doctor of Arts, 2000). University of Pennsylvania (Doctor of Music, 2000). Clark Atlanta University (Doctor of Humane Letters, 2001). Connecticut College (Doctor of Fine Arts, 2001). Bloomfield College (Doctor of Fine Arts, 2004). Julliard School of Music (Doctor of Music, 2006). Denison University (Doctor of Music, 2006). New York University (Doctor of Fine Arts, 2007). Harvard University (Doctor of Music, 2009). Northwestern University (Doctor of Arts, 2009). State University of New York at Potsdam (Doctor of Music, 2010). The College of New Rochelle (Doctor of Humane Letters, 2011). Tulane University (Doctor of Humane Letters, 2014). Hunter College (President’s Medal, 2014). University Jean Moulin Lyon3 (Doctor Honoris Causa, 2016). Kenyon College (Doctor of Arts, 2019). Wynton Learson Marsalis (born October 18, 1961) is an American trumpeter, composer, teacher, and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. Marsalis has won at least nine Grammy Awards, and his Blood on the Fields was the first jazz composition to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. He is the only musician to win a Grammy Award in jazz and classical during the same year. Marsalis was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, on October 18, 1961 and grew up in the suburb of Kenner. [1] He is the second of six sons born to Dolores Ferdinand Marsalis and Ellis Marsalis Jr. A pianist and music teacher. [2] He was named for jazz pianist Wynton Kelly. [3] Branford Marsalis is his older brother and Jason Marsalis and Delfeayo Marsalis are younger. All three are jazz musicians. [4] While sitting at a table with trumpeters Al Hirt, Miles Davis, and Clark Terry, his father jokingly suggested that he might as well get Wynton a trumpet, too. Hirt volunteered to give him one, so at the age of six Marsalis received his first trumpet. Although he owned a trumpet when he was six, he did not practice much until he was 12. [1] He attended Benjamin Franklin High School and the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts. [6][7] He studied classical music at school and jazz at home with his father. He played in funk bands and a marching band led by Danny Barker. He performed on trumpet publicly as the only black musician in the New Orleans Civic Orchestra. After winning a music contest at fourteen, he performed a trumpet concerto by Joseph Haydn with the New Orleans Philharmonic. Two years later he performed Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F Major by Bach. [5] At seventeen, he was the youngest musician admitted to Tanglewood Music Center. Marsalis reaching toward the camera. Marsalis backstage in 2007. In 1979, he moved to New York City to attend Juilliard. He intended to pursue a career in classical music. In 1980, he toured Europe as a member of the Art Blakey big band, becoming a member of The Jazz Messengers and remaining with Blakey until 1982. He changed his mind about his career and turned to jazz. He has said that years of playing with Blakey influenced his decision. [5] He recorded for the first time with Blakey and one year later he went on tour with Herbie Hancock. After signing a contract with Columbia, he recorded his first solo album. In 1982, he established a quintet with his brother Branford Marsalis, Kenny Kirkland, Charnett Moffett, and Jeff “Tain” Watts. When Branford and Kenny Kirkland left three years later to record and tour with Sting, Marsalis formed another quartet, this time with Marcus Roberts on piano, Robert Hurst on double bass, and Watts on drums. After a while, the band expanded to include Wessell Anderson, Wycliffe Gordon, Eric Reed, Herlin Riley, Reginald Veal, and Todd Williams. When asked about influences on his playing style, he cites Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Harry Sweets Edison, Clark Terry, Dizzy Gillespie, Jelly Roll Morton, Charlie Parker, Wayne Shorter, Thelonious Monk, Cootie Williams, Ray Nance, Maurice Andre, and Adolph Hofner. Marsalis at Lincoln Center in 2004. In 1987, Marsalis helped start the Classical Jazz summer concert series at Lincoln Center in New York City. [9] The success of the series led to Jazz at Lincoln Center becoming a department at Lincoln Center, [10] then to becoming an independent entity in 1996 with organizations such as the New York Philharmonic and the Metropolitan Opera. [11] Marsalis became artistic director of the Center and the musical director of the band, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. The orchestra performs at its home venue, Rose Hall, goes on tour, visits schools, appears on radio and television, and produces albums through its label, Blue Engine Records. In 2011, Marsalis and rock guitarist Eric Clapton performed together in a Jazz at Lincoln Center concert. The concert was recorded and released as the album Play the Blues: Live from Jazz at Lincoln Center. In 1986, Marsalis guest starred in an episode of Sesame Street. In 1995, he hosted the educational program Marsalis on Music on public television, while during the same year National Public Radio broadcast his series Making the Music. Both programs won the George Foster Peabody Award, the highest award given in journalism. In December 2011, Marsalis was named cultural correspondent for CBS This Morning. [12] He is a member of the CuriosityStream Advisory Board. [13] He serves as director of the Juilliard Jazz Studies program. In 2015, Cornell University appointed him A. Marsalis was involved in writing, arranging, and performing music for the 2019 Daniel Pritzker film Bolden. In The Jazz Book, the authors list what Marsalis considers to be the fundamentals of jazz: blues, standards, a swing beat, tonality, harmony, craftsmanship, and mastery of the tradition beginning with New Orleans jazz up to Ornette Coleman. He has little or no respect for free jazz, avant-garde, hip hop, fusion, European, or Asian jazz. Jazz critic Scott Yanow regards Marsalis as talented but criticizes his “selective knowledge of jazz history” and has said Marsalis considers “post-1965 avant-garde playing to be outside of jazz and 1970s fusion to be barren” and the unfortunate result of the “somewhat eccentric beliefs of Stanley Crouch”. [4] In The New York Times in 1997, pianist Keith Jarrett said Marsalis imitates other people’s styles too well… His music sounds like a high school trumpet player to me. Bassist Stanley Clarke said, All the guys that are criticizing – like Wynton Marsalis and those guys – I would hate to be around to hear those guys playing on top of a groove! ” But Clarke also said, “These things I’ve said about Wynton are my criticism of him, but the positive things I have to say about him outweigh the negative. He has brought respectability back to jazz. When he met Miles Davis, one of his idols, Davis said, So here’s the police… “[5] For his part, Marsalis compared Miles Davis’s embrace of pop music to “a general who has betrayed his country. “[5] He called rap “hormone driven pop music”[5] and said that hip hop “reinforces destructive behavior at home and influences the world’s view of the Afro American in a decidedly negative direction. Marsalis responded to criticism by saying, You can’t enter a battle and expect not to get hurt. “[5] He said that losing the freedom to criticize is “to accept mob rule, it is a step back towards slavery. Marsalis is the son of jazz musician Ellis Marsalis Jr. (pianist), grandson of Ellis Marsalis Sr. And brother of Branford (saxophonist), Delfeayo (trombonist), and Jason (drummer). Marsalis’s son, Jasper Armstrong Marsalis, is a music producer known professionally as Slauson Malone. Marsalis was raised Catholic. Marsalis received the National Medal of Arts from President George W. In 1983, at the age of 22, he became the only musician to win Grammy Awards in jazz and classical music during the same year. [5] At the award ceremonies the next year, he won again in both categories. After his first album came out in 1982, Marsalis won polls in DownBeat magazine for Musician of the Year, Best Trumpeter, and Album of the Year. In 2017, he was one of the youngest members to be inducted into the DownBeat Hall of Fame. In 1997, he became the first jazz musician to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music for his oratorio Blood on the Fields. In a note to him, Zarin Mehta wrote, I was not surprised at your winning the Pulitzer Prize for Blood on the Fields. It speaks to us all… I’m sure that, somewhere in the firmament, Buddy Bolden, Louis Armstrong and legions of others are smiling down on you. Wynton Marsalis has won the National Medal of Arts, the National Humanities Medal, [22] and been named an NEA Jazz Master. Statue dedicated to Wynton Marsalis in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain. [24] He has toured in 30 countries and on every continent except Antarctica. He was given the Louis Armstrong Memorial Medal and the Algur H. He was inducted into the American Academy of Achievement[26] and was dubbed an Honorary Dreamer by the I Have a Dream Foundation. The New York Urban League awarded Marsalis the Frederick Douglass Medallion for distinguished leadership. The American Arts Council presented him with the Arts Education Award. He won the Dutch Edison Award and the French Grand Prix du Disque. The Mayor of Vitoria, Spain, gave him the city’s Gold Medal, its most coveted distinction. In 1996, Britain’s senior conservatoire, the Royal Academy of Music, made him an honorary member, the Academy’s highest decoration for a non-British citizen. The city of Marciac, France, erected a bronze statue in his honor for the key role he played in the story of the festival. The French Ministry of Culture gave him the rank of Knight in the Order of Arts and Literature. In 2008, he received France’s highest distinction, the insignia Chevalier of the Legion of Honour. He has received honorary degrees from the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami (1994), University of Scranton (1996), [28] Kenyon College (2019), New York University, [29] Columbia, Connecticut College, [30] Harvard, Howard, Northwestern, Princeton, Vermont, and the State University of New York. Best Jazz Instrumental Solo. Think of One (1983). Hot House Flowers (1984). Black Codes (From the Underground) (1985). Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group. Marsalis Standard Time, Vol. Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with orchestra). Raymond Leppard (conductor), Wynton Marsalis and the National Philharmonic Orchestra for Haydn: Trumpet Concerto in E Flat/Leopold Mozart: Trumpet Concerto in D/Hummel: Trumpet Concerto in E Flat (1983). Raymond Leppard (conductor), Wynton Marsalis and the English Chamber Orchestra for Wynton Marsalis, Edita Gruberova: Handel, Purcell, Torelli, Fasch, Molter (1984). Best Spoken Word Album for Children. Listen to the Storytellers (2000). Main article: Wynton Marsalis discography. Sweet Swing Blues on the Road with Frank Stewart (1994). Marsalis on Music (1995). Jazz in the Bittersweet Blues of Life with Carl Vigeland (2002). To a Young Jazz Musician: Letters from the Road with Selwyn Seyfu Hinds (2004). Jazz ABZ: An A to Z Collection of Jazz Portraits with Paul Rogers (2007). Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life with Geoffrey Ward (2008). A Sonic Adventure with Paul Rogers (2012)[32]. This item is in the category “Collectibles\Autographs\Music”. The seller is “memorabilia111″ and is located in this country: US. 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  • Industry: Music
  • Signed: Yes

1991 Jazz Contract Signed Rare Nbc Autograph Wynton Marsalis Today Show

Svengoolie aka Rich Koz Signed Rubber Chicken RARE With COA MeTV Horror Host

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Svengoolie aka Rich Koz Signed Rubber Chicken RARE With COA MeTV Horror Host
Svengoolie aka Rich Koz Signed Rubber Chicken RARE With COA MeTV Horror Host

Svengoolie aka Rich Koz Signed Rubber Chicken RARE With COA MeTV Horror Host
I DO NOT use stock photos. What you see in the pictures is the EXACT item you will be. This also includes best offer prices. DVD’s are all in good condition and have all been tested and works great. What may be mint to me may not be mint to someone else. I DO NOT GUARANTEE ANY GRADES. If a condition is asked for during the listing of an item I ALWAYS put down the lowest grade possible even if the item is mint. That way there is no confusion. Due to California’s new law all autographed items comes with a personal COA and are guaranteed for life. All autographs were obtained in person. Autographed pictures vary in size. The autographs shown are the actual autographs you will be receiving. As every items is shown and you are receiving EXACTLY what is pictured. It’s just a safety measure to ensure extra time for the post office to deliver it after I drop it off. This item is in the category “Collectibles\Autographs\Celebrities”. The seller is “daves_autographs” and is located in this country: US. This item can be shipped to United States, New Zealand, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Wallis and Futuna, Gambia, Malaysia, Taiwan, Poland, Oman, Suriname, United Arab Emirates, Kenya, Argentina, Guinea-Bissau, Armenia, Uzbekistan, Bhutan, Senegal, Togo, Ireland, Qatar, Burundi, Netherlands, Slovakia, Slovenia, Equatorial Guinea, Thailand, Aruba, Sweden, Iceland, Macedonia, Belgium, Israel, Liechtenstein, Kuwait, Benin, Algeria, Antigua and Barbuda, Swaziland, Italy, Tanzania, Pakistan, Burkina Faso, Panama, Singapore, Kyrgyzstan, Switzerland, Djibouti, Chile, China, Mali, Botswana, Republic of Croatia, Cambodia, Indonesia, Portugal, Tajikistan, Vietnam, Malta, Cayman Islands, Paraguay, Saint Helena, Cyprus, Seychelles, Rwanda, Bangladesh, Australia, Austria, Sri Lanka, Gabon Republic, Zimbabwe, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Norway, Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Kiribati, Turkmenistan, Grenada, Greece, Haiti, Greenland, Afghanistan, Montenegro, Mongolia, Nepal, Bahamas, Bahrain, United Kingdom, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Angola, Western Samoa, France, Mozambique, Namibia, Peru, Denmark, Guatemala, Solomon Islands, Vatican City State, Sierra Leone, Nauru, Anguilla, El Salvador, Dominican Republic, Cameroon, Guyana, Azerbaijan Republic, Macau, Georgia, Tonga, San Marino, Eritrea, Saint Kitts-Nevis, Morocco, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Mauritania, Belize, Philippines, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Colombia, Spain, Estonia, Bermuda, Montserrat, Zambia, South Korea, Vanuatu, Ecuador, Albania, Ethiopia, Monaco, Niger, Laos, Ghana, Cape Verde Islands, Moldova, Madagascar, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Lebanon, Liberia, Bolivia, Maldives, Gibraltar, Hong Kong, Central African Republic, Lesotho, Nigeria, Mauritius, Saint Lucia, Jordan, Guinea, Canada, Turks and Caicos Islands, Chad, Andorra, Romania, Costa Rica, India, Mexico, Serbia, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, Japan, Lithuania, Trinidad and Tobago, Malawi, Nicaragua, Finland, Tunisia, Uganda, Luxembourg, Turkey, Germany, Egypt, Latvia, Jamaica, South Africa, Brunei Darussalam, Honduras.
Svengoolie aka Rich Koz Signed Rubber Chicken RARE With COA MeTV Horror Host

Lew Wallace signed autograph! RARE! JSA LOA! 14159

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Lew Wallace signed autograph! RARE! JSA LOA! 14159
Lew Wallace signed autograph! RARE! JSA LOA! 14159

Lew Wallace signed autograph! RARE! JSA LOA! 14159
Thank you for checking out an Authentic Memorabilia Company listing! We are pleased to offer the following item and will happily answer any questions that you may have about it! Condition: Item is in good condition overall. Authentication: James Spence (JSA) full LOA. Regarding authenticity, the majority of our items come authenticated by some of the industry’s authorities including Steiner Sports, Upper Deck, Tri-Star, Professional Sports Authenticator (PSA), James Spence Authentication (JSA), Beckett Authentication Services (BAS), Sportscard Guaranty (SGC) and Roger Epperson Authentication Limited (REAL). Feel free to message us regarding wanting additional photos, information or any other concerns you may have. This item is in the category “Collectibles\Autographs\Political\Other Political Autographs”. The seller is “authenticmemorabiliaco” and is located in this country: US. This item can be shipped worldwide.
Lew Wallace signed autograph! RARE! JSA LOA! 14159

1997 Marvel X-men -#1 Signed By Stan Lee Autograph High Grade Key Rare Wow

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1997 Marvel X-men -#1 Signed By Stan Lee Autograph High Grade Key Rare Wow
1997 Marvel X-men -#1 Signed By Stan Lee Autograph High Grade Key Rare Wow

1997 Marvel X-men -#1 Signed By Stan Lee Autograph High Grade Key Rare Wow
97XM1-1 1ST PRINTING DIRECT EDITION JULY 1994 MARVEL X-MEN VOL 2 -#1 SIGNED BY STAN LEE HIGH GRADE + ICONIC MAGNETO COVER KEY MODERN AGE ISSUE RARE. DISNEY/MARVEL ARE IN THE PROCESS OF MAKING A NEW X-MEN MOVIE TO BE RELEASED DURING PHASE 6. BOOK COULD BENEFIT FROM A CLEANING AND PRESSING HIGH GRADE. CARLOS PACHECO & ART THIBERT-ART. CARLOS PACHECO & ART THIBERT-COVER ART. Listing and template services provided by inkFrog. This item is in the category “Collectibles\Comic Books & Memorabilia\Comics\Comics & Graphic Novels”. The seller is “buysellandtrade_85″ and is located in this country: US. This item can be shipped worldwide.
  • Series Title: WOLVERINE
  • Character: HULK, STORM, Captain America, Captain Marvel, Thor, Colossus, Nightcrawler, Rogue, Wolverine, LOGAN, SUNFIRE, GAMBIT, JUBILEE, TERROR, PROFESSOR X, CHARLES XAVIER, DEADPOOL, WADE WILSON, WEAPON X, QUICKSILVER, SCARLET WITCH, AMELIA VOGHT, MAGNETO
  • Superhero Team: Avengers, Brotherhood of Mutants, Dark Avengers, Fantastic Four, New Mutants, The Eternals, X-Men, Young Avengers, ILLUMINATI, VENOM, ULTRON, MAGNETO, BANAPUR KHAN’S PIRATES, CULT OF THE BLACK BLADE, MUTANTS, BLACK BLADE, THE HAND, HYDRA, CLAN YASHIDA, NATURE DEFENSE LEAGUE, Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters
  • Publication Year: 1997
  • Era: Modern Age (1992-Now)
  • Format: Single Issue
  • Features: First Character Appearance, First Printing, Key Issue, Variant Cover, FIRST PRINT, 1ST PRINTING, 1ST PRINT, DIRECT, NON DELUXE, AUTOGRAPH, AUTOGRAPHED, SIGNED, CGC SS, CGC, SS, SIGNATURE
  • Publisher: MARVEL COMICS
  • Type: Comic Book
  • Artist/Writer: CHRIS CLAREMONT, JOHN BUSCEMA, AL WILLIAMSON, STAN LEE, JACK KIRBY, KLAUS JANSON, Glynis Oliver, Tom Orzechowski, Bob Harras, LARRY HAMA, MARC SILVESTRI, DAN GREEN, D.G. CHICHESTER, DARICK ROBERTSON, JOE RUBINSTEIN, ADAM KUBERT, FABIO LAGUNA, MARK FARMER, TIM TOWNSEND, Scott Lobdell, Carlos Pacheco, Art Thibert, Chris Lichtner, Aron Lusen, Richard Starkings, Comicraft
  • Grade: 0.5 Poor
  • Tradition: US Comics
  • Genre: Action, Family, Fiction, Monster, Movie Adaptation, Science Fiction, Suspense, Tragedy, War, SUPERHERO
  • Universe: American Gods, Battlestar Galactica, Conan the Barbarian, Disney, Gargoyles, GI Joe, Marvel (MCU), Star Wars, Transformers
  • Cover Artist: JOHN BUSCEMA, KLAUS JANSON, MARC SILVESTRI, DAN GREEN, DARICK ROBERTSON, JOE RUBINSTEIN, ADAM KUBERT, CARLOS PACHECO, ART THIBERT
  • Signed By: Stan Lee
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
  • Story Title: I Had a Dream
  • Signed: Yes
  • Variant Type: DIRECT, DIRECT EDITION, DIRECT PRINTING
  • Language: English
  • Vintage: Yes
  • Issue Number: MINUS 1
  • NAME OF ISSUE: FLASHBACK X-MEN
  • SERIES NAME: X-MEN
  • series name 2: DEADPOOL
  • SERIES NAME 3: NEW MUTANTS
  • SERIES NAME 4: X-MEN VOL 2
  • SERIES NAME 5: X-MEN FLASHBACK
  • ISSUE NUMBER 2: -1
  • ISSUE NUMBER 3: 1

1997 Marvel X-men -#1 Signed By Stan Lee Autograph High Grade Key Rare Wow