Following the military takeover of September 12,1980, was forced to resign from his post at the İstanbul Municipal Theatre. A new edition of his “Neither Rain… Nor Poems” published in 1981 was confiscated. Behramoğlu was detained and kept under custody for some time.
1974’te Türkiye’ye dönüşünden bir süre sonra Muhsin Ertuğrul yönetimindeki İstanbul Belediyesi Şehir Tiyatroları’nda dramaturg olarak çalışmaya başladı.