On May 27, 1960, middle-ranking Turkish military officers arrested their own commander-in-chief and overthrew the country’s first democratically elected government.
Events of that day and the months that followed still resonate in Turkish politics as the coup leaders hanged a popular prime minister, along with his two cabinet ministers.
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