Category: Protest, from Wikidata’s classes “demonstration”, “riot”, “protest”
Bloody Sunday (1969)
Part of: Political violence in Turkey (1976–1980)
Wikidata classes on our event-class list: demonstration, riot, protest (all its classes: Wikidata item)
Bloody Sunday (Turkish: Kanlı Pazar) refers to a violent confrontation on 16 February 1969 in Istanbul, Turkey, when right-wing counter-demonstrators attacked a left-wing protest march at Taksim Square, killing two people and injuring over 200.
Seventy-six youth organizations, supported by labor unions and the Workers' Party of Turkey, had assembled in Beyazıt Square for a march they called the "Mustafa Kemal March Against Imperialism", protesting the visit of the United States Sixth Fleet to Istanbul. The march had received official permission from the Istanbul governorate. Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched from Beyazıt through Sultanahmet, Sirkeci, Eminönü, Karaköy, and Dolmabahçe towards Taksim Square. Meanwhile, right-wing groups who had been called to confront the marchers assembled at Taksim Square after prayers, armed with sticks, stones, and knives. Police allowed the marchers to enter the square only in small groups; the right-wing attackers easily broke through the thin police cordon of just two rows and attacked the demonstrators, chanting religious slogans and anti-communist slogans. Two protesters, Ali Turgut Aytaç and Duran Erdoğan, were stabbed to death, and over 200 were injured.
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