"The 1980 Turkish coup d´état (Turkish: 12 Eylül Darbesi), headed by Chief of the General Staff General Kenan Evren, was the third coup d´état in the ...
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history of the Republic, the previous having been the 1960 coup and the 1971 coup by memorandum.
During the Cold War era, Turkey saw political violence (1976–1980) between far-left, far-right and Islamist militant groups, and the state. The violence saw a sharp downturn for a period after the coup, which was welcomed by some for restoring order by quickly executing 50 people and arresting 500,000 hundreds of whom would die in prison." - (en.wikipedia.org 09.01.2021)