Ahmet Kenan Evren was a Turkish politician and military officer who served as the seventh President of Turkey from 1980 to 1989. He assumed the post by leading the 1980 military coup.
Kenan Evren and his daughter Şenay Evren with President Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan, June 1988
Funeral of Kenan Evren held on 12 May 2015
The 1980 Turkish coup d'état, headed by Chief of the General Staff General Kenan Evren, was the third coup d'état in the history of the Republic of Turkey, the previous having been the 1960 coup and the 1971 coup by memorandum.
Daily newspaper Hürriyet's headline on 12 September 1980: "The army has seized the government."