COUP IN THE NAME OF DEMOCRACY: MAY 27, 1960 AND THE DISCURSIVE CONSTRUCTION OF POLITICAL LEGITIMACY
This study examines, through a semiotic lens, how the May 27, 1960 military coup was represented in mainstream newspaper opinion columns and how political legitimacy was produced in the name of democracy. Nine columns published on May 27–28 (and on May 31 in Hürriyet) in Hürriyet, Milliyet, Cumhuriyet, and Akşam are an...