YEREL BASINA GÖRE 1960 İHTİLALİ’NİN BİNGÖL’E YANSIMALARI VE 1961 ANAYASA OYLAMASINDA BİNGÖL’ÜN TUTUMU
THE REFLECTION OF 1960 REVOLUTION ON BINGÖL IN THE REFERANDUM OF 1961 CONSTITUTION ACCORDING TO LOCAL PRESS

Summary/Abstract: The 27 May coup is one of the significant turning points of Turkish democracy. Turkish Military Service had begun to see it as their legitimate right to involve in country’s politics after the coup which was quite important even only for its suspension of the democracy. As a result of this coup, great changes were experienced in social, political, economic and military domains of Turkey. In this study, the reflection of 27 May coup in the city of Bingöl was evaluated in all domains. The Supportive slogans and cheerful demonstrations on all platforms following the coup –as if being expected– are important in terms of showing the citizens’ psychological and social conditions. In this study, furthermore, the results of voting for the referendum of 1961 Constitution are presented in tables and also evaluated. Even though the people of Bingöl welcomed the 27 May coup with applauds and cheerful demonstrations, they revealed their real attitude toward the military coup by voting 20% against in the referendum. Even only for this aspect , the situation of the public at the time needs to be questioned.

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