TURKEY'S friends the world over will watch with interest the government's decision to try Kenan Evren, the then army chief who seized power in 1980 after toppling an elected government, the Dawn newspaper in Pakistan said in an editorial on Friday. Excepts: Assuming power with the avowed aim of ridding Turkey of political violence, Evren used brute force to accomplish his controversial mission. The country had to pay a heavy price as a result. Fifty people were executed, hundreds of the half a million thrown into jails died, while there were serious allegations of torture and countless disappearances. Thirty-one years have passed since the coup, but the widespread resentment caused by his authoritarian rule still reverberates across Turkey. __
