Erbakan served as prime minister for 11 months. He was pressured to resign by the military, which staged the country's first "post-modern coup" in February 1997, forcing him to give up his post.
11 ay başbakanlık da yapan Erbakan, Şubat 1997'de ülkenin ilk "postmodern darbesini" düzenleyen ordu tarafından istifaya zorlanarak, görevden ayrılmak zorunda kaldı.