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...ruling National Security Council, as the junta calls itself, sent a stern message to all students calling for military-like discipline on the campuses. Teachers were warned to keep their instruction free of political ideology or face dismissal. In Kütahya, a province west of the capital of Ankara, the military commander ordered all youths to get haircuts and shaves. On the whole, most Turks accepted the law-and-order drive philosophically. Although several clashes erupted between troops and suspected terrorists, the casualty rate dropped off dramatically...
...coup. There were soldiers on duty on city streets and bridges, and a cluster of blue-bereted commandos chatted idly outside Istanbul's Blue Mosque. Otherwise, the armed forces tried to keep discreetly out of sight as much as possible. Along the 300-mile road between Istanbul and Ankara, foreigners found few troops in evidence. Both deposed Prime Minister Demirel and Opposition Leader Bülent Ecevit remained under detention at a military resort hotel in Hamzaköy, near Gallipoli. They could receive telephone calls but refused to talk politics. Ecevit told one caller: "I'm sorry...
...that the government would wage a campaign against terrorism and would seek to create "a democratic social order that is responsible, effective, respectful of the rights of the citizen and capable of functioning." Moreover, he said, the military government would soon draft a new constitution, and the guessing in Ankara was that the generals leaned toward a strong executive and a two-party system capable of handling the country's internal unrest and economic woes. Said Evren, in defending the military's decision to take power: "All freedoms provided by democracy are for those who believe...
According to reports in Ankara, the armed forces commanders had been watching the growing crisis with great concern and finally made their move in an act of near desperation. They had been particularly worried about the poor performance of the police in combatting the terrorists and by the rising menace of Turkish Communist militants. They were also concerned about increasing signs of Islamic fanaticism; a rally in Konya earlier this month that attracted 70,000 people struck them as a threat to Atatürk's concept of a secular society, which the Turkish military is pledged under...
...first military regime lasted 17 months, the second 30 months, but everybody agrees that Turkey is in worse shape this time. After the 1971 takeover, the junta sank rapidly in public esteem when it adopted brutal but effective tactics against leftist terrorists. Says a Western diplomat in Ankara: "The generals' dilemma is that, if they repeat the strong-arm tactics of 1971, they will lose the good will of the West, on which they depend. But if they don't get tough, they could end up losing the country...