"Referendum in Turkey: A Vote for Democracy or a New Strongman?
For a figure of huge controversy, retired general Kenan Evren, 93, leads a quiet life on the sunny Turkish coast, dabbling in still life oil painting and the opening of local shops. All the while, he has been the subject of many a barbed joke among Turks, bitter that such that an idyllic retirement is the reward for a man who presided over the traumatic 1980 coup in which thousands of people — primarily leftists — were arbitrarily jailed and tortured. Protected from prosecution by a constitution he helped draft, nobody imagined that Evren might one day be taken to task for his role in that debilitating chapter of recent Turkish history."
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