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1980 Turkish coup d'état
The 1980 Turkish coup d'état (), headed by Chief of the General Staff General Kenan Evren, was the third coup d'état in the history of the Republic, the previous having been the 1960 coup and the 1971 "Coup by Memorandum". During the Cold War era, 1970s Turkey experienced conflicts between Western-supported nationalist far right elements within the military and militant left-wing groups. To create a pretext for a decisive intervention, the Turkish military allowed these conflicts to escalate; Some say
to Greece in 1977, he met Yiannis Ritsos.
Life 1980 Turkish coup d'état.
Following the coup d'état on September 12, 1980, he was forced to resign from his post at the Istanbul Municipal Theatre. A new edition of his ""Neither Rain… Nor Poems"", published in 1981, was confiscated. Behramoğlu was detained and was kept under custody for some time. In 1981, he collected a series of humoristic and critical poems under the title ""Wanted: A Good Citizen"" and