Erdogan’s revenge
Turkey’s president is destroying the democracy that Turks risked their lives to defend
Jul 23rd 2016
MUCH is unknown about the attempted military coup in Turkey on the night of July 15th. Why was it botched so badly? How far up the ranks did the conspiracy reach? Were the putschists old-style secularists, as their initial communiqué suggested; or were they followers of an exiled Islamist cleric, Fethullah Gulen, as the government claims?
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