Türk Tiyatrosunda 12 Eylül Darbesini Okumak

Coup or revolution. Two words loaded with meaning to change the management of a country. If the coup is made by the people, the word will revolution. The movement of the armed people, which is intended to change the political, social and economic structure of a state, is called revolution. If carried out by the army is defined: in a country, military forces seize control of weapons. Those who make the coup use the word revolt. Political history in Turkey discusses with military coups. May 27 coup, 1960. March 12 Memorandum, 1971. September 12 coup, 1980. February 28 postmodern coup, 1997. July 15 coup attempt, 2016. Junta management is a management social life, economy, culture and art. Junta manages with a repressive attitude and focuses on intellectuals, artists and their ways of thinking. In these times artists are exiled, democratic rights and freedoms are restricted, bans to go out, censorship is applied in art, be blown to science and scientific thought. Theatre is an art, applied pressure during the junta times because of using language as expression of opinion, interactive and live art. Theatre is audited with celf-sensorship before sensorship. It focuses on simple topics. Events is passed different places. Parody is used. Popular theater gets importance. September 12 coup, writers lives a silence period and then 10 years later they handle the subject. When the coup subjeckt include a paradox like why did all these happen, writers interest in pain, casualties, press, absurdity etc.