Reflections of the May 27 coup d'etat in the Sakarya press

The military coup of the May 27, 1960 is one of the most important turning points in Turkish political With the May 27 coup, the ten-year-old political power of the Democratic Party, which had come to power the great support of Turkish people, came to an end and a new period that paved the way for coups and mili domination in the history of the Republic emerged. The effects the May 27 coup d'etat revealed such as politic, social, economic etc. were felt by the whole soc The most significant device that made the public feel these effects of the May 27 coup d'etat was thanks to newpapers which were the commonest means of mass communication of the period. Newspapers publishe the national and local level not only conveyed the developments regarding the May 27 coup, but also too stand in favor of the coup and the coup plotters in the climate of fear created by the military governm Newspapers reported the news and developments about the coup d'etat with large font and headlines expres joy. In this study, it has been tried to be evaluated how the Sakarya press welcomed the May 27 coup and ho was affected, in line with the news reflected in the local newspapers of the period. The Sakarya press after May 27 coup welcomed the coup with great joy and mentioned about the coup as a revolution. After the c along with the change of administration in Sakarya, as in the whole country, the publishing policies in newspapers changed too. In the news appeared after the coup, the Democratic Party and its members (partis were declared as traitors, while the soldiers and the army that made the coup were declared as heroes. celebration and meeting news in Sakarya as to the May 27 coup were given full page in the newspapers. As the the columns in the newspapers, the justification of the May 27 coup was tried to be explained to the pub In this study, the reflections of the May 27 coup d'etat in the Sakarya press were discussed in general.