COUP, GENDER AND MEMORY: TRANSFER OF MEMORY

BETWEEN WOMEN REGARDING THE COUP OF 12TH SEPTEMBER

NİLÜFER BULUT

The military coup of 12 September 1980 is a social event that brought great transformations in the political life of Turkish society. While this event brought about a series of transformations affecting social and political life, it also created consequences that mainly affected the socialist movement in Turkey with a series of rights violations in the process. Like many social issues, the September 12 coup has taken a place in the memory of the society.

Among the people affected by the coup are predominantly socialists. However, in many documentaries and researches about the coup, socialist men were referred, and the social effects of the coup were perceived as a political social change between men from different generations. Since women's struggles before the 1980 coup were also rendered invisible, women were not seen as a social subject in the issue of being affected by and coping with this social trauma and in the new political society. In this context, it is important to reveal women's struggles that are rendered invisible within the patriarchal social structure and to reveal that they are social subjects carrying intergenerational memory. Because women are social subjects whether they are actively involved in politics or not. The women interviewed within the scope of the thesis are the women and their daughters who took an active part in the political life of Turkey with a socialist perspective before the coup of September 12, 1980. Thus, the political subjectivity of women will be examined through intergenerational memory.