Alaci, BeralBabaoglu, Resul2024-12-242024-12-2420211305-14582147-1592https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12604/8039In many studies examining the 27 May 1960 movement, the first example of the military coup tradition that occurred as the termination of an elected political power in the Republic of Turkey with a military intervention, it is informed that the National Unity Committee (MBK), which took over the administration, was authorized for a limited interim period. On a ground estimated to have arisen from the limited term of office, in the researches made with respect to Yassiada trials and the separations in the military administration, rather than the activities of the National Unity Committee, the management performance in the interim period was not discussed. In this study, it was focused on how the press life, which was guided by an autarchic understanding during the Democrat Party (DP) period, was shaped during the period of the National Unity Committee. In this study where qualitative data collection method was used, the document analysis technique was used within the system of research and descriptive findings were reached. The expectations of the press circles from the management of the National Unity Committee, how the armed forces that took over the administration wanted to design the press life and finally the legal regulations made in this period are among the topics examined in the scope of the study. In this study, in which qualitative data collection method was used, document analysis technique was used within the universe of the research and descriptive findings were obtained. The expectations of the media from the National Unity Committee management, how the armed forces that took over the management wanted to design the life of the press, and finally, legal regulations made in this period are among the topics examined within the scope of the study. In this study, which focuses on the press policy implemented by the National Unity Committee that undertook the administration of the country in the period until the establishment of the first coalition government as a result of the elections of 1961, in Turkey, the press achieving a partial comfort with the legislation that is brought to the agenda with government changes experienced at various times is observed to inevitably confront with structural defects in the final stage.trinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessPressPower27 May 1960 CoupPress LawPress freedomArticle1733317346N/AWOS:000688301800011Q42-s2.0-85110622565