1997 Turkish military memorandum

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The 1997 military memorandum (Turkish: 28 Şubat, "28 February"; also called postmodern darbe, "post-modern coup") in Turkey refers to a memorandum, in which decisions issued by the Turkish military leadership on a National Security Council meeting on 28 February 1997 resulted in the resignation of Islamist prime minister Necmettin Erbakan of the Welfare Party, and the end of his coalition government.^[1]

As the government was forced out without dissolving the parliament or suspending the constitution,^[2] the event has been famously labelled a "postmodern coup" by the Turkish admiral Salim Dervişoğlu.^[1][3][4] The process after the coup is alleged to have been organised by the West Working Group, a purported clandestine group within the military.