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In early November 2017, Turkish authorities issued an arrest warrant for Henri J. Barkey , former Director of the Middle East Program of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, stating that he is an agent of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), that he was present in Istanbul during the 2016 Turkish coup attempt ...
My Father and My Son (Turkish: Babam ve Oğlum) is a 2005 Turkish drama film written and directed by Çağan Irmak about a family torn apart by the 1980 Turkish coup d'état. The film which went on nationwide release on 18 November 2005 ( 2005-11-18 ) became one of the highest-grossing Turkish films in history.
The army was popular and prestigious as the guarantor of the Turkish state and of Turkish multiparty democracy (after its effective establishment following World War II). [1] Cemal Gürsel, leader of the successful 1960 coup. The army first exercised its reserve power in the 1960 Turkish coup d'état.
The film was selected as the Turkish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 62nd Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee. [1] The film is set in 1984 Ankara, during the aftermath of the 1980 Turkish coup. [2] [3] It is currently available to legally stream with English subtitles through the German media website Pantaflix . [4]
Human Rights Watch warned the Turkish government against "[using] the coup attempt to justify a witch-hunt against those it regards as opponents". [60] Andrew Gardner, Amnesty International 's researcher for Turkey, said: "We are witnessing a crackdown of exceptional proportions in Turkey at the moment.
The 1980 Turkish coup d'état (Turkish: 12 Eylül Darbesi, lit. 'September 12 coup d'état'), headed by Chief of the General Staff General Kenan Evren , was the third coup d'état in the history of the Republic of Turkey , the previous having been the 1960 coup and the 1971 coup by memorandum .
Enemies who have been waiting for a long time to occupy the land of Turks stand with a large army at the border and wait for the coup's message. Polat Alemdar and his team will fight with the Turkish nation against the enemies in and outside the country.
Political violence in Turkey became a serious problem in the late 1970s [3] and was even described as a "low-level civil war". [4] The death squads of Turkish right-wing ultranationalist groups, sometimes allied with the state, inflicted around 5,000 casualties with the motivation of acting against the resistance of the left-wing opposition.