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tions played an active part in the propaganda and provocation activities.
And the security forces, which put up an arduous struggle against
this communist uprising, were heavily criticized and ultimately intro-
duced as anti-people and anti-democratic by certain domestic and for-
eign media groups, certain political and academic circles, and even
certain think-tanks and NGOs; they were sought to be pacified through
psychological pressure methods.
The subsequent vandalism, looting and arson carried out using
stones, wood sticks, Molotov cocktails, and firearms left in their wake a
lot of deaths and injuries, and resulted in a great financial loss country-
wide. Many private and government properties were damaged, de-
stroyed, or burned down. Tens of automobiles, municipality buses,
ambulances, construction vehicles, and official cars were sabotaged.
Banks, shops, and stores were looted.
In addition to this, factors such as interest rates soaring from 4.67 to
9 percent, a total of a 33 billion dollar loss in the trading securities of
companies, foreign investors withdrawing their capital from the coun-
try, increasing exchange rates, and rising inflation were predicated to
cost Turkey tens of billions of dollars.