The 1968 generation in Turkey first emerged as a student movement focused on reform within the university system, but towards the end of the sixties it evolved into a revolutionary movement, eventually fighting for the use of revolutionary violence after the military intervention of 1971. Turkey consequently found itself experienced in extremes leading to the political polarization and political violence in late sixties and seventies. The study of the 1968 generation in Turkey offers a very interesting case, not only because Turkey was undergoing a big transformation during this time, with an increasing population, with a high rate of urbanization and industrialization, but also because it was a devout NATO ally as a neighboring country of the Soviet Union during the Cold War era. There is an abundance of literature on the 1960s - particularly the generation’s youth movements - in the west, however it is important to study the period in different geographies in order to better comprehend the different colors of the student movements all around the globe.
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