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Jul 16, 2016 · 1980 - Military coup following armed conflict between right-wing and left-wing groups in the 1970s 1971 - Military coup known as the "coup by memorandum", which the military delivered...
May 11, 2015 · Kenan Evren: General who led the 1980 military coup in Turkey that ended years of conflict but resulted in brutal suppression. Evren, alongside the only other surviving member of the 1980 coup,...
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The 1980 Turkish coup d'état (Turkish: 12 Eylül Darbesi, lit. 'September 12 coup d'état'), headed by Chief of the General Staff General Kenan Evren, was the third coup d'état in the history of the Republic of Turkey, the previous having been the 1960 coup and the 1971 coup by memorandum.
Jul 15, 2016 · Before three years was up, the military regime made good on the promise of a return to democracy in late 1982—but it was an arrangement that left many observers wary, as the new democratic ...
Sep 17, 2010 · Thirty Years after Turkey's Last Military Coup. September 17, 2010. By Roger Owen. Thirty years ago on 12 September 1980 Turkey experienced a military coup, its third in twenty years. Designed to put an end to many months of ugly street fighting and killings, it also paved the way for a root and branch attempt to create an entirely new ...
Sep 12, 2023 · History. The Ankara Method: Turkey’s Coup at the Turning Point of the Cold War. By Matthew Petti on September 12, 2023. The years 1979 and 1980 were turning points in history. U.S. national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski described an “ arc of crisis ” across the Muslim world, from the Horn of Africa to the Indian subcontinent.
Combining both spatial and temporal trends, Figure 3 displays the frequency of coups over time by region. As can see, Latin America led the charge with coup activity until around 1970, and then Africa has largely led since. These trends are generally consistent with regions studied by coup scholars.
