Word: gaziantep
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gaziantep, near the tense Turco-Syrian frontier, Republicans had missed victory in the province by only 200 votes. Two days after the election, assembling ostensibly to mark the 34th anniversary of the Turkish Republic, a crowd of Republicans burst into shouts of "Stolen votes!" mobbed Democratic Party headquarters, wrecked the city hall. In an exchange of stones and gunshots, a policeman and an eleven-year-old boy bystander were killed. At Mersin on the south coast, a Republican was shot and killed in a similar demonstration...
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