Today in History – 9 December

“The legitimacy of the Constitutional regime cannot be exploited”

The statement concerning the meeting President Cemal Gürsel held with party leaders was released on December 9, 1964:

In no period in history and in any nation have political parties allowed the exploitation of the Constitutional regime that constitutes their raison d’être and, even worse, have tolerated and remained silent in the face of any, real or alleged, defamation of the army in charge of the country’s institutions of trust and sustenance…