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<body background="../_themes/artsy/arttilea.jpg" bgcolor="#000000" text="#FFFFCC" link="#FF9900" vlink="#999900" alink="#669933"><font face="Arial, Helvetica"> <p align="center"><i>COUP - a documentary film by Elif Savas and Brian Felsen about the 1960, 1971, 1980, and 1997 military interventions and coups d'etat in Turkey.</i></p> <p align="center">If you are viewing this text, your browser lacks the ability to read frames.<br> Don't worry, you can still enjoy our site - all the pages can be viewed from the contents page.  Please come inside!</p> <p> </p> <p>ENTER:</p> <p><a href="frames%20of%20pages/indexnav.htm">Contents</a> (no frames!)</p> <p><a target="_top" href="index.htm">COUP Home</a> (requires frames)</p> <p>STILLS OF FOOTAGE FROM COUP:</p> <p style="margin-top: 6; margin-bottom: 6"><a href="images/15.jpg" target="main">Ottoman soldiers</a></p> <p style="margin-top: 6; margin-bottom: 6"><a href="images/21.jpg" target="main">War of Independence</a></p> <p style="margin-top: 6; margin-bottom: 6"><a href="images/22.jpg">Parliament in 1922</a></p> <p style="margin-top: 6; margin-bottom: 6"><a href="frames%20of%20pages/stills%20army%20in%20republic.htm">Army in early Republic</a></p> <p style="margin-top: 6; margin-bottom: 6"><a href="images/333.jpg">Mustafa Kemal Ataturk</a></p> <p style="margin-top: 6; margin-bottom: 6"><a href="images/54.jpg">Adnan Menderes, 1954</a></p> <p style="margin-top: 6; margin-bottom: 6"><a href="images/712.jpg">1971 street violence</a></p> <p style="margin-top: 6; margin-bottom: 6"><a href="images/716.jpg">1970's commandos</a></p> <p style="margin-top: 6; margin-bottom: 6"><a href="images/717.jpg">1971 Army</a></p> <p style="margin-top: 6; margin-bottom: 6"><a href="images/74.jpg">c. 1974 Soldiers (Cyprus War)</a></p> <p style="margin-top: 6; margin-bottom: 6"><a href="images/80.jpg">General Kenan Evren</a></p> <p style="margin-top: 6; margin-bottom: 6"><a href="images/801.jpg">1980 Parliamentary talks</a></p> <p style="margin-top: 6; margin-bottom: 6"><a href="images/802.jpg">September 10, 1980 explosions</a></p> <p style="margin-top: 6; margin-bottom: 6"><a href="images/803.jpg">September 12, 1980 coup</a></p> <p style="margin-top: 6; margin-bottom: 6"><a href="images/804.jpg">The arrests</a></p> <p style="margin-top: 6; margin-bottom: 6"><a href="images/805.jpg">Evren takes power</a></p> <p style="margin-top: 6; margin-bottom: 6"><a href="frames%20of%20pages/stills%201990s%20religious%20protests.htm">1990's religious protests</a></p> <p style="margin-top: 6; margin-bottom: 6"><a href="images/9755.jpg">Sincan 2/4/97 play</a></p> <p style="margin-top: 6; margin-bottom: 6"><a href="frames%20of%20pages/stills%201997%20Sincan%20army%20maneuver.htm">Sincan 1997 army maneuver</a></p> <p style="margin-top: 6; margin-bottom: 6"><a href="images/9791.jpg">1997 coup-by-memorandum</a></p> <p style="margin-top: 6; margin-bottom: 6"><a href="images/9792.jpg">The fall of PM Erbakan</a></p> <p style="margin-top: 6; margin-bottom: 6"><a href="frames%20of%20pages/stills%20future%20of%20a%20military%20democracy.htm">The future of a military democracy</a></p> <p style="margin-top: 6; margin-bottom: 6"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 6; margin-bottom: 6"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt"><a href="file:///C:/My%20Documents/My%20Webs/coup/index.htm" target="_top">COUP Home</a></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 6; margin-bottom: 6"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 6; margin-bottom: 6"> </p> <p align="center"><i>COUP - a documentary film by Elif Savas and Brian Felsen about the 1960, 1971, 1980, and 1997 military interventions and coups d'etat in Turkey.</i></p> <p><font color="#008000" size="2">Coup is partially funded by the New York Council on the Arts, Experimental Television Center.  It is a documentary film about the 1960, 1971, 1980, and 1997 military intervention and the Turkish military coup d'etat s.  It starts with Mustafa Kemal Ataturk in the 1920's and traces the political involvement in the Armed Forces, in contrast to that of South America.  Footage, archives, audio clips, as well as debates and interviews, are with activists, the Turkish Minister, Interior Minister, Foreign Minister, constitution authors, parliament members, aides to the Turkish President and the Prime Minister of Turkey, police, junta members, intelligence agents, Turkish political party members and of extremist organizations, former prisoners, scholars.  </font></p> <p><font color="#008000" size="2">Filmmakers Elif Savas and Brian Felsen have created the movie COUP D'ETAT, or DARBE, a must-see for documentary film students and people curious about international history, current events, Istanbul, the post-Ottoman period, Ankara, the trial of Adnan Menderes, the car-bomb murder of journalist Ahmet Taner Kislali, the 1971 coup of which General Muhsin Batur was a leader, student leader and activist Deniz Gezmis, student demonstrations, the rise and fall of the Refah or Welfare Party, issues of freedom of speech in Turkey, the role of Amnesty International, what happens when a government takes anti-democratic measures in an attempt to preserve the democracy and the democratic process in Turkey, those studying Asia Minor in the Republican Period, those considering travel to Turkey who want a "rough guide" of current events there, students of American Foreign Policy and of groups claiming American Imperialism, people interested in Near-East Studies of the Near East, Recent History, the Turkish Constitution, or readers of Political Science Quarterly.  The website contains some movie reviews of the film and sections of an interview with Noam Chomsky.</font></p> </font></body>