Military Intervention and a Crisis of Democracy in Turkey

Adnan Menderes'' election to power in 1950 signalled a new epoch in the history of modern Turkey. For the first time a democratic government ruled the country, taking over Kemal Ataturk''s political heirs, the People''s Republican Party (CHP), and challenging the Kemalist elite''s monopoly on the control of state institutions and society itself. However, this period was short-lived. In 1960, Turke...