"Turkey's constitutional referendum
Can Erdogan pull it off?
Turkey prepares to vote on a constitutional-reform package that pits the government against the generals
Sep 9th 2010 | ankara and Istanbul
SALIH SEZGIN, a Kurd, was in Diyarbakir prison when Turkey’s generals seized power in 1980. “After the coup I was forced to eat my own shit and repeatedly raped with a truncheon,” he recalls. Should Turks approve a set of constitutional reforms that will be put to a nationwide vote on September 12th, the officers who committed such horrors on Mr Sezgin and more than half a million other Turks who were arrested and tortured after the coup will no longer be immune from prosecution."
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