Cold War Era Coup D’etats and the USA: The Cases of Turkey and Greece

Year 2018, Volume: 2 Issue: 1, 76 - 92, 15.07.2018

Emre Feyzi Çolakoğlu

Abstract

Turkey and Greece, despite taking part in the democratic Western block, have been

subjected to anti-democratic governments for a period of time after the coup d’états

that had taken place on May 27, 1960 in Turkey and April 21, 1967 in Greece. The

coup d’états in two the NATO countries that had advanced alliance relationship with

the block leader US in this period came naturally attracting to many researchers. In

this sense, there are various research questions that push researchers to work on this

subject. “Whether the US governments were aware of the coming coup d’états in

Turkey and Greece in advance” and “what are the factors that determine the

relationships US administrations established with the military rules after the coup

d’états had carried out” are at the beginning of these questions. This study seeks to

provide a more multidimensional explanation for the subject research questions

usually discussed from a single perspective in the literature comparatively.

Keywords

Cold War, Coup D’états, Greece, Turkey, USA

Soğuk Savaş Dönemi Askeri Darbeleri ve ABD: Türkiye ve Yunanistan Örnekleri

Abstract

Türkiye ve Yunanistan Soğuk Savaş döneminde ABD’nin başını çektiği demokratik

Batı bloğu içerisinde yer almalarına rağmen sırasıyla 27 Mayıs 1960 ve 21 Nisan 1967

tarihlerinde gerçekleşen darbelerin ardından bir süre anti-demokratik yöntemlerle

yönetilmişlerdir. Bu dönemde blok lideri ABD ile ileri düzeyde müttefiklik ilişkisi

bulunan iki NATO ülkesinde meydana gelen darbeler doğal olarak pek çok

araştırmacının da ilgisini çekmiştir. Bu anlamda, araştırmacıları bu konu üzerinde

çalışmaya iten çeşitli araştırma soruları bulunmaktadır. Bu soruların başında ise ABD

yönetimlerinin Türkiye ve Yunanistan’da meydana gelen darbelerden daha önceden

haberdar olup olmadıkları ile ABD hükümetlerinin darbe sonrasında askeri

yönetimlerle kurdukları ilişkileri belirleyen faktörlerin neler olduğu gelmektedir. Bu

çalışma, söz konusu araştırma sorularına karşılaştırmalı olarak yanıt aramaya

çalışarak, literatürde genellikle tek pencereden ele alınan olaylara çok yönlü

açıklamalar getirmeyi amaçlamaktadır.

Keywords

ABD, Darbe, Soğuk Savaş, Türkiye, Yunanistan

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