ANKARA, Turkey - Kenan Evren, the general who led Turkey's 1980 military coup that ended years of street-clashes between rival left- and right-wing militias and but also unleashed a wave of arrests, torture and extrajudicial killings died on Saturday.
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Associated Press: Turkish coup leader, former President, Evren dies at 97
(FILES) A file picture taken on September 4, 2010 shows, Turkey's former Army Commander General Kenan Evren, one of the leaders of the 1980 Turkish coup, siting in his home in Ankara. Turkish former president Kenan Evren, convicted last year for his key role in the country's bloody 1980 coup, died on May 9, 2015 at a hospital in the capital Ankara, the state-run Anatolia news agency reported. He was 97. Evren had received treatment at the GATA military hospital since 2012 but his health had recently deteriorated and he had been attached to a respirator. AFP PHOTO /ADEM ALTAN
