About his new book From the Republic to İpek Özbey In an interview, İlker Başbuğ said: “If Menderes had announced the date of the early elections in Eskişehir on May 25, 1960, the military coup on May 27 would probably have been avoided. Because the carrying out of a military coup against a government that has decided early elections will be clearly affected by the political will of the nation. It would be a coup, “he said.
Your words “The military intervention of May 27 is the name of the first blow to the political system that the Republic brought” Başbuğ continued as follows: “Of course, the DP government has had practices such as establishing the Commission of Inquiry and empowering it, which violated the constitution in its later years. But the solution should not have been a military coup“
… “The coup of May 27 had important effects on the military interventions that followed. It has caused people with political experience and maturity to move away from the political scene. More importantly, it was the beginning of the transformation of society into a structure divided by clear lines that we see today. “