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27 May 2012 / AHMET MUSTAFA GRLEK, FATIH UUR, STANBUL
The disclosure of diaries and handwritten notes belonging to former Chief of General Staff
Gen. Rt Erdelhun, who was arrested after the May 27, 1960, coup dtat and later tried
by a military junta and sentenced to death, has shed light for the first time on the generals
sufferings under the perpetrators of the coup.
The discovery of the diaries and notes comes just before the 52nd anniversary of the first
military coup in Turkeys history, staged by junta cells nested in the Turkish Armed Forces
(TSK). The fresh revelations have added another layer to the pain and shame surrounding
memories of the coup.
The Zaman daily, a sister paper of Sundays Zaman, started investigating the details behind
the arrest of Gen. Erdelhun, which have until now remained largely secret, about three
months ago. We wondered about his thoughts and feelings upon being detained by a group
of young officers he had commanded for long years, and what his days were like in the
notorious Yassada Prison, located on a small island in the Sea of Marmara. While many
have told stories about the deplorable circumstances of the Yassada trial and the
humiliation that Erdelhun and his friends were subjected to, their actual experiences remain
a matter of great curiosity to us.
We managed to trace official documents recording Erdelhuns fate following his detention
after the May 27 coup, but these documents yielded little of particular interest; then, just a
few weeks ago, we received a phone call from Turgut Sayarer, the nephew of Erdelhuns
wife, Vasfiye, offering to provide us with a suitcase full of diaries and other documents -- all
Newly d i s c losed d ia r ie s sh in e l igh t
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The family of Gen. Erdelhun kept his diaries, which tell of the May 27 coup, in a red wooden suitcase.
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in Erdelhuns hand -- depicting the coup and its aftermath.
We couldnt have been happier. Handing over the red wooden suitcase, Sayarer said, I am
entrusting the 50-year-old memory to you.
Erdelhun joined the Turkish army in 1921. He received a medal for his service in the War of
Independence. When a group of young and low-ranking officers staged a coup on May 27,
1960, he was the chief of General Staff. Erdelhun was initially forced to resign and
consequently stripped of his rank, a first in the history of Turkey. He was later arrested by
coup leaders on grounds of supporting the overthrown Democrat Party (DP) against the
military, becoming the first chief of General Staff to be arrested and jailed in Turkey.
Erdelhun stood trial at Yassada as a private and was sentenced to death. His sentence was
later commuted to life imprisonment, and he was subsequently pardoned by then-head of
state Cemal Grsel after serving approximately one year in jail.
It was 4.30 a.m. Gen. Burhanettin le and a War Academy student were at my door. They
started to break my door using the butt ends of their rifles because I was late opening the
door as I was talking on the phone at the time. [When they broke the door] I was holding my
hat in my hand and getting ready to go outside. I was told that we would go to the Turkish
Military Academy. I said OK. I saw a tank and jeeps equipped with machine guns in front of
the door. When I stepped outside a lieutenant colonel shouted at me Sold man! and turned
his semi-automatic gun on me, recalls Erdelhun in one of the diaries, yellowed from being
kept in the suitcase for so many years. Inside we also found photographs dating from the
aftermath of the May 27 coup. Erdelhun records in one of the documents that he carried the
suitcase with him everywhere to continue writing his story; he was hoping to publish a book
some time in the future. His reasons for never doing so remain a mystery.
On May 27, 1960, the powerful military overthrew the government of then-Prime Minister
Adnan Menderes. Menderes, his fellow DP members and a number of high-ranking officers
of the TSK were tried in 14 separate cases in Yassada by junta-sponsored prosecutors and
judges. Among the sentences handed down were 15 death penalties, 12 life sentences and
hundreds of long-term imprisonments. Three executions by hanging were carried out:
Menderes, Foreign Minister Fatin Rt Zorlu and Finance Minister Hasan Polatkan.
Erdelhuns diaries and notes bear witness to the years of the coup and paint a picture of the
last days of Turkeys martyrs to democracy. The generals memories are a record of
traumatic events that have seeped into the nations psyche. In his diaries Erdelhun notes
that he began writing down his memories of the coup period only in 1967 after receiving a
letter from Celal Bayar, serving president at the time of the May 27 coup. Bayar was among
the 15 sentenced to death, but his execution was not carried out due to his advanced age.
In the letter Bayar asked Erdelhun to write his story so that coming generations would one
day learn the truth about events long past. The general included in his memoirs his analysis
of the coups impact on the future of Turkey.
What surprised Erdelhun most in the events surrounding May 27 was a proposal from the
military junta for him to become the leader of the coup, even as he was detained at the
War Academy. A number of [military] officers came to me toward noon on May 27 and told
me they were expecting the coup to be led by me. They said I did badly by myself and that
the coup was the result of my imprudent support to the [DP] government. One of my friendsfrom the War Academy, who was a lieutenant colonel at the time, came to visit me along
with around 20 young officers and told me to make an address to the nation on the radio
and declare my decision to join the coup stagers and become the leader of the coup, the
general records in the diaries. In response I thanked him for the interest he showed in me
and reminded him that I had said I would never approve of and support a coup dtat during
one of my earlier addresses at the General Staff. I said I was kept under detention for an
unknown accusation for several hours, and I would never eat my words about coups, even if
it would mean losing my life.
1960 marks a turning point in Turkeys political history as the first time the military moved to
take control of the country due to its dissatisfaction with the political landscape. No one has
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yet been tried in connection with their role in the May 27 coup, but there is an expectation
mounting in society that involved parties will stand trial -- albeit symbolically, as none of the
coup stagers are alive today.
According to the diaries, Erdelhun later learned that the request for him to join and lead the
coup was driven by threats from Konya 3rd Army Commander Gen. Ragp Gmpala that
he would take charge of the coup if they failed to find a leader for themselves. If you do not
have a high-ranking leader [to lead to coup] then I will order my army to walk to Ankara,
Gmpala reportedly told coup stagers. Gmpalas maneuver would have signaled the
failure of the coup for the military junta, as the general would have taken control of the coup
and rearranged the state as he wished. In an effort to counter Gmpalas threats the juntaselected then-Land Forces Commander Gen. as its leader. Grsel was later elected
president.
The first politician to be arrested after the May 27 coup was President Bayar, residing at
ankaya palace. Bayar, who had learned of the coup by telephone, had dressed and was
waiting in the living room to be taken into custody. Arriving at the palace, a senior officer
charged to arrest Bayar demanded his resignation, but Bayar refused, saying, I was
brought here by the will of the people, and thats how I will go. As Bayar spoke he first
pointed his gun at the officer and then turned it on himself, but the soldiers intervened and
Bayar surrendered. He was dragged from ankaya palace and taken directly to the military
War Academy premises.
Menderes was in Eskiehir on an official visit when he learned the news. He set outimmediately for Ktahya with his entourage, arriving at the governors office with the
intention of resisting arrest, but surrendered when he realized the building was surrounded.
He joined Bayar and others in detention at the War Academy. Within days all of those under
arrest had been transferred to Yassada.
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