12 Mart: "Demir-El"

Overview

By the end of 1963, the word coup was no longer spoken in Turkey. Talat Aydemir is history, the last tremors of the May 27 earthquake have passed and the sliding faults of the regime have begun to settle into place. In this transition period, which lasted more than four years, the person who managed to get the ship to the port without running aground was İsmet İnönü. He ruled for four troubled years in a country torn between armed uprisings, Cyprus crises, coalition governments and regime debates. But meanwhile, he was also worn out. In the local elections held at the end of 1963, while the CHP's votes remained at 37 percent, the AP found 45 percent. But on the very day of the final election results, a few gunshots heard from across the Atlantic turned everything upside down...

Cast & Crew

Bülent Çaplı

Director

Mehmet Ali Birand

Self-Narrator

Metin Toker

Self

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Mehmet Ali Kışlalı

Self

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Haluk Bayülken

Self

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Mehmet Turgut

Self

Süleyman Demirel

Self

Stills