Monday, May 11, 2015

Kenan Evren, former Turkish military dictator - FT.com

Kenan Evren, former Turkish military dictator

Daniel Dombey in Istanbul

Turkey has yet to escape the influence of Kenan Evren, a former president who brutally transformed the country in the 1980s.

Evren, who died on Saturday aged 97, came to power in 1980 through a military coup — the third and perhaps most significant such putsch in Turkey’s modern history.

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