One day after the establishment of the Committee of Inquest on April 18, 1960 and the adoption of the Law of Police Powers, which gave this committee broad powers, on April 27, protests led by university students began in Istanbul and Ankara. Martial law was declared in these two cities by the Democratic Party government and harsh measures were implemented. Within the scope of these measures, the press was also intervened and any news about the protests was prohibited. While the newspapers that did not comply with the prohibitions were sentenced to close down for a while, the relevant copies were confiscated. For this reason, it is almost impossible to come across news about the upheavals in Istanbul and Ankara in the newspapers of the period until the May 27 coup. After the coup, the junta began to accuse the DP government with mind-blowing accusations to explain the legitimacy of the coup to the public. The allegations that a large number of students were murdered feloniously by the government in the IstanbulAnkara upheavals and their bodies were chopped in feed machines and pulverized were widely covered in the press. The newspapers of the period even launched campaigns to build monuments for students who lost their lives. There are also allegations that plans were made to exterminate the cadets of the Military Academy and that there were buried weapons and military equipment.