Turkey

The Hidden Life of Turkey toc

Before 1945
Turkey was a country created after the collapse of the Ottoman empire and has been a country at constant war with its own people. Once the Ottoman Collapsed Greeks attempted to take control over the land of Turkey (ICWeb2) and try to occupy the land forcing the Turkish into radical action. [|Mustafa Kemal Atatürk] a World War One officer rewound for his strategic defense at the Battle of Gallipoli incited a successful action and a revolt against the Greeks pushing them out of his land.

Formation of a Democratic Nation
From there a secular nation was formed, rejecting, condemning and trying to completely eliminate religion from their society. This was a radical action leading to mass terror as schools were brought down shut down religious groups in the aim of following Atatürk ideal modern secular society. This was a violent authoritarian society intent on the control of the people. Yet in 1946 the government had a change of heart they had their first election. After this election not much changed as the same ruling party was voted to stay in power. At the next election in the 1950 the Democratic party one out over the militarily driven Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi also known as the Republican People's Party. Soon the Democratic Party angered its people and modern Turkey had its first revolt.

1960 Coup
Modern Turkey had its first revolt in 1660. The event that ignited the powder keg and initiated the coup was the legalization of religion in their country, going against one of the main points Atatürk strived to achieve. The military stepped into to halt the damages and arrested their members of their government. Then they were put on trial for their deeds. Adnan Menderes the prime minister of the time was quickly executed. This lead to five years of a military dominated society. (Aljazeera)

1971 Coup
Turkey during 1971 was going through its own recession. People became stressed with the lack of profit and ended up taking radical action. The military of course stepped in to bring back order to their falling nation. The people ended up remembering the former glory of Atatürk, and forced the prime minister Suleyman Demirel out of office and replaced him two years later with a retired naval officer Fahri Koruturk. (Aljazeera)

1980 Coup
Even after the change of government the economy of turkey just became stagnant. The people were still outraged by the lack of stabilization continued to fight between the two parties leading to thousands of deaths. The military soon stepped in removed the government from power and began to detain thousands of civilians and execute them. (Aljazeera)

PKK
The PKK are a resistance group formed in the 1970s that resides in Turkey. They are mainly made up of Kurdish people, a large r eligious minority in Turkey (BBC Turkey Profile). Unhappy with the state of Turkey they violently and in Turkeys eyes commit terrorist attacks in an attempt to earn an independent Kurdish homeland. PKK's most active time was 1990, and the conflict between the two people resulted in thousands of Turkish villages being burnt and destroyed. (The PKK)

Economy
Unlike most of the middle east the Turkish economy has never had any dependence on oil, because of this Turkey has little to do with the conflict between nations for petroleum. Instead Turkey was a major producer of textiles and of metals. A crash in their economy caused many coups and lots of anger in the people. Their government became unstable and had trouble regaining the stability it once had. In the modern day though it seems that Turkey has made a huge advancement towards the production of cars and has lessened the dependence on Textiles

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