Demirkırat stumbled on March 12, 1971. Actually, you know, they shoot limping horses. But this time it didn't. Turkish democracy continued to run despite its wounds. Because March 12 was not a "seizure" but a "warning". The generals were saying, "If what we want is not done, we will seize it." The country was entering a new era under this Sword of Damocles. A president who was helpless in the face of events, a prime minister who had to leave his seat, a newly fallen parliament, four generals neither inside nor outside the power... Now, a solution would be tried to be found out of this complex equation. But how and with whom? No one knew the answer to these questions in Turkey on the morning of March 13.
Mehmet Ali Birand
Ali İhsan Göğüş
Sadi Koçaş
Süleyman Demirel
Celil Gürkan
Muhsin Batur
Abdullah Asım İğneciler
Bülent Ecevit
Atilla Sav
Atilla Karaosmanoğlu
Çetin Altan
Ertuğrul Kürkçü
Mumtaz Soysal
Altan Öymen
Nuri Çolakoğlu
Mustafa Yalçıner
Yılmaz Erkekoğlu
Baki Tuğ
Halit Çelenk
Cemil Gezmiş
Mehmet Eymür