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词条 Committee of Inquest
释义

  1. Background

  2. The committee

  3. 28 April demonstrations

  4. End of the committee

  5. References

Committee of Inquest ({{lang-tr|Tahkikat komisyonu}}) was a political committee in Turkey which is usually considered as one of the reasons of the 1960 Turkish coup d'état

Background

Democrat Party (DP) defeated the Republican People’s Party (CHP) in the 1950 general elections and ruled Turkey between 1950-1960. However towards 1960, Turkey faced with economic problems like the 1958 devaluation in which Turkish lira was devaluated more than 3 times (the value of $1 jumped from 2.80 TL to 9 TL) [1] Rise in commodity prices and scarcity of imported technology items caused unrest and consequently CHP support increased. DP government tried to suppress CHP-revival by bans on CHP activities. In Uşak and in İstanbul (Topkapı) İsmet İnönü, the leader of CHP was attacked by DP sympathizers on the 1st and 4 May 1959.[2][3] This meant that DP, the once champion of democracy adopted a totalitarian rule. In this struggle most of the press, which had previously supported DP, sided with CHP.

The committee

On 25 March 1960, İnönü, the leader of CHP tried to visit Kayseri as a part of his election campaign. But his train was stopped in Yeşilhisar town. This caused nationwide protests. DP PM’s however published a notice claiming that CHP was preparing a rebellion. On 27 April DP parliamentary group which held the majority in the parliament passed a law to form a committee of Inquest. The committee, all members of which were DP MPs was tasked with inquires about the opposition party (CHP) and the press. The political committee was authorized like a court, including imprisonment.[1] The chairman of the committee was Ahmet Hamdi Sancar and the committee was nicknamed as "Sancar’s committee".

The first decision of the committee was to ban the political activities and to precensor the press. But İnönü continued to oppose the committee. He noted that the principle of separation of powers was violated.

28 April demonstrations

The law caused further unrest and on the next day a big protest was organized by the university students in İstanbul. The protest was duly banned; but nevertheless was carried on. Among other things, the rector of the İstanbul University (Sıddık Sami Onar) was beaten by the police and one university student (Turan Emeksiz) was shot by the police to death.[1][4]

End of the committee

According to the law, the committee would serve for three months. But it was abolished by the 1960 coup on the 27th of May.

References

1. ^Sina Akşin: Kısa Türkiye Tarihi, Türkiye İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları, Istanbul, 2011, {{ISBN|978-9944-88-172-2}} pp.257-259
2. ^Metin Toker: Demokrasimizin İsmet Paşalı Yılları, 1957-1960, Bilgi Yayınevi, İstanbul, 1991, {{ISBN|975-494-246-3}} p.230
3. ^Cumhuriyetin 75 yılı, Tempo Yayıncılık, İstanbul, 1998, p.141
4. ^Oda TV essay {{tr icon}}

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