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Tuesday, August 09, 2016

Stranger Than Fiction in Turkey | Foreign Affairs

Stranger Than Fiction in Turkey
Why Conspiracy Theories Persist
By Ryan Gingeras

There is no shortage of conspiracy theories surrounding the Turkish coup on July 15. According to many Turkish observers, including Ibrahim Karagul, an editor at Yeni Safak, a prominent newspaper that favors the governing Justice and Development Party (AKP), it was engineered by Fethullah Gülen, a secretive Islamic cleric who is currently exiled in the United States.

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