MER Article "They Say There Is Democracy in This Country?" “Unless you allow our sons, the journalists that you beat up, to come back here, you will have to move my dead body from this spot. They say there is democracy in this country -- where? As if what they do to our people inside weren’t enough, they drag and beat us up, 70-year-old mothers and all. If Altan Yalpat • 1 min read
MER Article Turkey's Economy Under the Generals In September 1981, on the first anniversary of the military coup, the Economist summarized the succession of events that set Turkey’s critically ailing economy of-the late 1970s on its new course. The first step was an economic package announced on January 24, 1980. Designed by the government of Sü Altan Yalpat • 27 min read
