Gangsters The NAP developed organisation of armed gangster units known Wolves, who carried systematic campaign of terror against the working class and the left groups. Dozens of people were killed every day.
The Turkish left suffered further splits and tiny groups modeled on the Red Brigades German Faction responded in Successive governments refused to distinguish between the fascists and the left, although the state moved mainly against he len Socialist brutally tortured in Turkish prisons at the same trade unionists and left-wing •rolessors and stuaenis were being mown, down, on the tant streets by fascist gangs.
Bulent Ecevit, the main opposition leader, had proved incapable of dealing with fascist violence. Indeed, fice he had gone so far as to ban police which wanted to resist fascist encroachments. acevit's successor. Demire - who was unseated by the army early last Friday equally incapable. He authorised the state-sponsored persecuand even fascists.
The generals oul a Turkey for the third time in three decades. In military arrested and hanged Prime Minister, Menderes, a politician of the right. In 1971 they intervened to oust Demirel. Now it has happened again.
Army press notwithstanding, it is obvious that the coup was carried a out on the instructions of the United States (probably under Monetary Fund, were about the state of the country. time as Turkey is a crucially imporpart of NATO military bases and radar in