About a month after the demonstrations, the National Unity Committee overthrew the Democrat Party government in the 1960 Turkish coup d'état.
These created new tensions between political leaders and the military hierarchy, of concern to both university students and intellectual circles.
Most of the university students arrested by police and handed over to be taken to the Davut Pasha Barracks were instead released by the soldiers.
At Sultanahmet Square on 30 April, a student from Istanbul High School, Nedim Özpolat, was fatally shot by the police.
Security forces opened fire on students at the Faculty of Political Sciences and martial law was declared in Ankara.
One week later, the first Turkish civil disobedience action, the 555k protests (held at 5 o'clock on the fifth of May), took place in Kızılay, Ankara.