The Çorum pogrom or Çorum massacres occurred in the province of Çorum in north-central

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between May and July 1980. Turkist ultranationalists targeted the

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minority which lead to as many as 57 deaths and over 200 injuries in the ensuing violence. Another target was the social-democratic

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(CHP). Many victims were young people and women. In 2012 "former rightist agitator" Adnan Baran stated that uncertainty remains about the exact nature of the events and urged that a dialogue between the rightists and leftists take place in order to better understand the events, which he speculated might have been part of a larger military plan to set up a pretext for the Sept. 12, 1980 coup d'état.

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, 2 January 2012, Former rightist calls for dialogue over 1980 Çorum massacre,http://www.todayszaman.com/news-267446-former-rightist-calls-for-dialogue-over-1980-corum-massacre.html

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