Memorandum of 12 March 1971in Turkey's democracy life

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk initiated democracy for the new Turkish Government establishing the Turkish Grand National Assembly on April 23, 1920, and that went further with the declaration of republic on October 29, 1923. However, this democracy process did not last very long as it was disrupted by the military coups and memorandums.Memorandum is defined as army?s warning the government without taking any military action instead of toppling the government and taking it over . therefore, what happened on March 12, 1971 is a kind of Memorandum to the government from the army with this respect. With the military interruption civilian authority, democracy was disrupted once again since the military coup in 1960. As all action has some reasons, that note had several reasons as well, some of which are the emerging danger of communism, being unable to surprass the demostrations of students, the young, and the workers, allegations of military junta, and interruptions from other countries. The subject of this study is to examine political and social events right before the Memorandum of 1971 as well as its reasons and results.