Marash Incident

According to official figures, 111 people died in the events that took place in Kahramanmaraş in 1978, hundreds of people were injured. 210 houses and 70 workplaces were destroyed. Lawsuits were filed against 804 people; 29 of the defendants were sentenced to death, 7 to life imprisonment, and 321 to 1-24 years of imprisonment. When the events in Maraş broke out, CHP was in power and Bülent Ecevit became the prime minister. After the incident, CHP's interior minister, İrfan Özaydınlı, said in a statement that the cause of the events was leftist organizations, and received a great reaction from his party. Later, he was forced to resign from the interior ministry and Hasan Fehmi Güneş was replaced. Bülent Ecevit reported that the events were brought out by counter-guerrillas to force him into the demand for martial law, which he had resisted for a long time. Due to the events, a declaration of martial law came to the agenda in many provinces, including the provinces surrounding the borders such as Diyarbakır, Izmir, Syria-Iran-Iraq, and from December 26, 1978 at 7.00, Istanbul, Ankara, Kahramanmaraş, Adana, Elazığ, Bingöl, Erzurum, Erzincan Martial law was declared in a total of 13 provinces including Gaziantep, Kars, Malatya, Sivas and Şanlıurfa. Later, the number of these provinces was increased. As a result of the attacks, according to official data, 150 people were killed, 176 people were injured.