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parties, trade unions and NGOs were abolished. The Turkish Armed Forces fought against PKK influence in Southeast Anatolia and at the Iraqi border and implemented a guard system in order to make villagers fight against the PKK with them. For Alevis, Islamisation acted as an assimilationist state policy because it was Sunni Islam that was practiced. Many mosques were built in Alevi districts and the religious courses offered were all Sunni as well. This marginalization would lead to the
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Islamization in order to formulate a new Turkish national identity and promote morality. The National Security council owned the public broadcasting channel, Turkish radio and the television institution. Both Islamization and the nationalization of important media channels acted as ways to further discipline the population.
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would rise quickly to be one of the major separatist actors. As a militant political organisation, the PKK claimed 354 lives between the years 1978 and 1980. Most of the victims were ethnic Kurds as they constituted PKK's main target group. For example, feudal leaders were against the PKK's goals and
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had no clear winner, as CHP didn't have a majority to form a government, and the right-wing parties all had to work together to form a coalition. Demirel at first continued the coalition with the Nationalist Front, but in 1978, Ecevit came to power again with the help of some deputies who had changed
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Due to increasing political tensions and high inflation during social changes in the late 1960s and early 1970s, consumption was inhibited for all but a limited group, and unemployment rose despite the growth of the labor force and migration to Europe. While the number of unionized workers increased,
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An amendment of the electoral law in 1969 kept small parties on both sides to gain any seats in Parliament. This caused a public uprising, including the Kurdish resistance. Multiple Kurdish leftist organisations appeared in Turkey in the 1960s and 1970s that were ready to use violence as a political
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The Kurdistan Worker's Party did not only use violence to mobilise people during this time period. However, their use of violence did appeal to larger crowds, increasing the popularity of the party. By gaining more people to support them, other organisations were not able to gain similar status as
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Regarding minority rights and freedoms, there were many setbacks. Exclusionary nationalism was promoted. For the Kurdish, the acknowledgement of their existence and the use of their language were banned entirely. Any type of Kurdish media was forbidden, and publishers were imprisoned. Political
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was reinforcing the economic backwardness of the Eastern and Southeastern Anatolia while the economic backwardness of Eastern and Southeastern Anatolia reinforced Kurdish separatism. Terrorist attacks have had an impact on human and physical capital, and what the state spent on countering the
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A culture of mutual denunciation was developed among the citizenry and the formation of organisations banned, leading to a nationwide atmosphere of social anxiety and polarization into two groups: those who were innocent and those who were guilty. In addition, nationalism was coupled with
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Unprecedented political violence erupted in Turkey in the late 1970s. The overall death toll of the 1970s is estimated at 5,000, with nearly ten assassinations per day. Most were members of left-wing and right-wing political organizations, which were then engaged in bitter fighting. The
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movement shifted spendings from the infrastructure and development of the region to the defence. However, this simultaneously marginalised Kurdish who would then be recruited by the PKK as lower-class. Thus, economic backwardness and Kurdish separatism created a vicious circle.
1401: 729:. Disproportionate numbers of Kurds were part of the left-wing groups. Before the 1980 military coup, the majority of violent clashes were between leftist and rightist groups, though the separatist attacks against the Turkish forces increased afterwards. 750:
the PKK did. Thus, the PKK was the main access of the Kurdish to political participation in Turkey. One way of involving a larger number of people in its activities was to include women, which challenged the traditional gender relations in the country.
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to power. The parliament was abolished, martial law was declared and a state of emergency was put into place. The period of military dictatorship between 1980 and 1983 constituted a fundamentally transformational period for Turkish society.
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the number of unemployed people under the age of 30 reached alarming rates. In the 1960s, workers became militant in their struggle for higher wages and better working conditions. The struggle between employers and workers intensified with
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became responsible for the close monitoring of society, aimed at those who participated in any form of state resistance in the 1970s. Estimated numbers of the people facing punishment by the state 1980-1983 are listed in the table below.
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With the increase in infrastructure and transportation investments after the 1960 Coup, the urban population grew, industrialization accelerated, and workers and their families who earned a living by selling their labor became visible.
402:) founded their political associations. Left-wing sources were translated and political literature became accessible. This situation became a threat to the right and it began to mobilize its own forces to fight against communism. 1365: 1830: 1795: 468:, published in 1961. Under these influences, changes were taking place in the value system and status scale of ideologies in Turkey in the 1960s. The Turkish Workers' Party (TİP) won 14 seats in 1965 thanks to the 504:) were established and protected by the state in the late 60s to wage an armed struggle against the left. They claimed it using literature that cannot be considered scientific, with expressions such as " 1856: 639:, such as smaller industrialists, traders, rural notables and landlords, whose interests did not always coincide among themselves. Numerous agricultural and industrial reforms sought by parts of the 717:, one of the five generals who would lead the coup. The deputy undersecretary of the MİT, Nihat Yıldız, was demoted to the London consulate and replaced by a lieutenant general as a result. 472:
and gained an important place in politics. Although it received a similar number of votes with the changed election system in the 1969 elections, the number of seats decreased to three.
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values, which was why the PKK fought against them. Also, the PKK attempted to be the sole leftist power in the region, and thus fought against other leftist groups.
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Following the ongoing political violence of the 1970s and the Turkish parliament's inability to form a stable government and fulfil its function as legislative, the
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In the absence of liberal solutions for countries whose main problem was development, such as Turkey, the intellectuals of the period were largely interested in the
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With the increase in the number of students, schools and higher education institutions became gathering places for political groups on the left and right sides.
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tool. Violence sparked especially in the second half of the 1970s. Throughout the years, a number of them fell apart or were banned altogether after the
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opposition inflicted some 5,000 casualties. Most of the victims were left-wingers. The level of illegal violence lessened for a while after the
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Prolonged conflicts are listed in the decade when initiated; ongoing conflicts are marked italic, and conflicts with +100,000 killed with bold.
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and its leaders were hanged. Intellectuals, politicians and the masses on the right fell into moral defeat as a result of these developments.
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became a serious problem in the late 1970s and was even described as a "low-level civil war". The death squads of Turkish
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attacks, in which 831 were killed and 3,121 wounded. In the central trial against the left-wing organization
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had made it difficult for one party to achieve a parliamentary majority. The interests of the industrial
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were blocked by others. The politicians seemed unable to combat the growing violence in the country.
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model. Many intellectuals signed the manifesto proposing a socialist model in the first issue of
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Devrimci Yol Savunması (Defense of the Revolutionary Path). Ankara, January 1989, p. 118-119.
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The military coup also allowed for a restructuring of the state; 535 laws were passed in the
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was unable to elect a president during the six months preceding the coup). Since 1969,
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Citizenship and identity in Turkey : from Atatürk's republic to the present day
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Some of the state elite, out of concern about the rise of the left, supported the
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Turkey : the pendulum between military rule and civilian authoritarianism
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groups, sometimes allied with the state, against the resistance of the
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in 14 of the then 67 provinces in December 1978. At the time of the
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and later conflicts (after 1914) of at least 100 fatalities each
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Devrimci Yol Savunması (Defense of the Revolutionary Path).
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Total: 5,388 killed, affiliation of 1,983 victims unknown.
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Ecevit was warned about the coming coup in June 1979 by
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Türkiye Devrimci İşçi Sendikaları Konfederasyonu, DİSK
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and partial paralysis of parliamentary politics (the
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Confederation of Revolutionary Trade Unions of Turkey
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786: 785: 782: 755: 752: 722: 719: 692:Maraş massacre 684:Maraş massacre 648: 645: 637:social classes 621:strike actions 540:Adalet Partisi 360:Democrat Party 356: 353: 325: 324: 318: 317: 314: 310: 309: 305: 304: 301: 297: 296: 292: 291: 289: 288: 285: 265: 247: 226: 224: 222: 221: 219:Abdullah Çatlı 216: 204: 191: 188: 187: 183: 182: 180: 179: 174: 169: 164: 159: 147: 145:TKP/ML (TİKKO) 134: 126: 124: 123: 118: 113: 95: 86: 85: 81: 80: 77: 76: 75: 74: 68: 61: 57: 56: 51: 49: 45: 44: 39: 31: 30: 23: 22: 9: 6: 4: 3: 2: 2973: 2962: 2959: 2957: 2954: 2952: 2949: 2947: 2944: 2942: 2939: 2937: 2934: 2932: 2929: 2927: 2924: 2922: 2919: 2917: 2914: 2912: 2909: 2907: 2904: 2902: 2899: 2897: 2894: 2892: 2889: 2887: 2884: 2882: 2879: 2877: 2874: 2872: 2869: 2867: 2864: 2862: 2859: 2857: 2854: 2852: 2849: 2847: 2844: 2842: 2839: 2837: 2834: 2833: 2831: 2816: 2814: 2807: 2801: 2800: 2796: 2794: 2793: 2789: 2787: 2786: 2782: 2780: 2777: 2776: 2774: 2770: 2762: 2761: 2760: 2755: 2754: 2753: 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Index

Cold War
Turkey
1980 Turkish coup d'état
Low-level insurgency
Right-wing groups
Grey Wolves
MHP
Turkish Revenge Brigade
Turkish mafia
Left-wing groups
TKP/ML (TİKKO)
THKO
Devrimci Yol
Marxist–Leninist Armed Propaganda Unit
People's Liberation Party-Front of Turkey
Revolutionary Youth Federation of Turkey
Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu
Alparslan Türkeş
Abdullah Çatlı
İbrahim Kaypakkaya

Deniz Gezmiş
Executed
Mahir Çayan

right-wing
ultranationalist
left-wing
1980 Turkish coup d'état
Kurdish-Turkish conflict

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