''Devrim'' ( tr, Revolution) was a weekly newspaper published in Ankara which was launched on 21 Ekim 1969. The owner was Cemal Reşit Eyüpoğlu, and the director of publication was

Doğan Avcıoğlu Doğan Avcıoğlu (1926–1983) was a Turkish writer, journalist and politician. Biography Doğan Avcıoğlu was born in Mustafakemalpaşa ilçe (district) of Bursa Province in 1926. After completing high school, he traveled to France for studie ...

, who also wrote the editorials. The newspaper sought to show that the contemporary understanding of democracy was simply a diversion. Instead, they proposed a 'national – revolutionary' administration in the direction of extra-parliamentary opposition.

Hasan Cemal Hasan Cemal (born 1944) is a Turkish journalist and writer. He was the editor of ''Cumhuriyet'' from 1981 to 1992, and of ''Sabah'' from 1992 to 1998. In 2013 he resigned from the ''Milliyet'' newspaper after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan h ...

, one of the writers of the paper in his memoirs, ''Cumhuriyet'i Çok Sevmiştim'', confessed that the purpose of such a policy was to convince nationalist officers in the military to stage a coup in the cause of 'National Democratic Revolution'. ''Devrim'' ceased publication on 27 April 1971 following the

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