“All my trust in the politicians had been rubbed away.”

— Kenan Evren

On 17 September 1980 http://books.google.com/books?id=XW7bJ0b3kyEC&pg=PA43&dq=Kenan+Evren&lr=&client=firefox-a&sig=ACfU3U25I1osEHZanEArEIRSNYhVUys7NQ#PPA43,M1, five days after the coup, Evren comments on the political leaders of the standing political parties.
From Turkey: Challenges of Continuity and Change by Meliha Benli Altunisik, (p. 43, Routledge, 2005).

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