Narrative of events of Bloody Sunday (1972) Narrative of events of Bloody Sunday (1972) This article details the events as they occurred on Bloody Sunday (1972). The organisers' original intention was that the march would form up on the Creggan Estate behind a coal delivery lorry carrying the main speakers and bearing a Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA) banner. The march would then make its way down to William Street on the edge of the Bogside, and on to the Guildhall in the city centre, where a rally would be held. In response, the head of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) in Derry, Chief Superintendent Frank
Bloody Sunday (1969) to Bloody Sunday as "an example of organized, fascist violence", alluding to right wing elements responsible for most of the violence. Left-right political tensions ran high for most of the 1960s and 1970s. Similar attacks on labor groups by right-wing elements in the government and Turkish politics occurred in 1971 and 1977. The 1977 massacre is referred to as Turkey's "second Bloody Sunday". Bloody Sunday (1969) Bloody Sunday () is the name given to a counter-revolutionary response to a leftist protest that occurred on February 16, 1969, in Istanbul's Beyazıt Square, Turkey. At eleven o'clock ten thousands of left-wing students