On the evening of May 7, 1966, the Minister of Internal Affairs of Süleyman Demirel's government, Faruk Sükan (who was a doctor by profession), raided the Turkish Grand National Assembly and searched the rooms of the deputies of the main opposition party. The first Prime Minister and the second President of the republic, the leader of the main opposition CHP, İsmet İnönü, expressed his reaction to the attack in these historic words: "Our first task is to ...