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2011.
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| Summary/Abstract |
The story of the army's role in Turkish politics between the 1920s and the 1950s is here divided into three phases. During the first phase, between 1923 and 1926, Atatürk succeeded in establishing his personal dominance over the political system by overcoming challenges to his authority by several of his fellow military commanders. After 1926, the army's loyalty to the regime was secured, and it played an important role in Atatürk's nation-building program. This period of symbiosis between the military and the political regime lasted until 1950, when the victory of the Democrat Party opened up a third phase, culminating in the coup d'état of May 27, 1960.
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