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Turkey had 2.5 successfull military coups. 1960 and 1980: Old school military colonel - generals. They thought they should show these puny civilians who the re
by mda 10y ago
Turkey had 2.5 successfull military coups.
1960 and 1980: Old school military colonel - generals. They thought they should show these puny civilians who the real boss was, hanged a few people including a prime minister, oppressed free speech and media.
1998 was different, it was a half coup, they disbanded government, created a huge vacuum of authority, caused the biggest economical depression in Turkish history, oppressed majority of people (Those pesky conservative people, why do they want to go to university?)
2016: They failed miserably regardless of their motivation. I hope this would be a lesson to them, Turks had enough of this crap.
- cm3 10y agoYou may be right and just for the record here's what I've included in the count: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960_Turkish_coup_d'%C3%A9tat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960_Turkish_coup_d'%C3%A9tat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_Turkish_military_memorandum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_Turkish_military_memorand... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_Turkish_coup_d'%C3%A9tat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_Turkish_coup_d'%C3%A9tat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_Turkish_military_memorandum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_Turkish_military_memorand...