COLUMN: Tayyip Erdogan, president of Turkey
Andrew Patterson
To understand the 2016 coup attempt in Turkey one has to go back to the end of WW I and the defeat of Turkey. The British and French divided up the vast land of the Ottoman Empire. Anatolia was occupied by Russia and Greece until Mustafa Kemal Ataturk escaped from Istanbul by boat to a Black Seaport where he called up officers who served him WW I to mobilize an army. His Army forced the occupation nations out of the territory he was planning to make a Turkish Republic. The Allies were not enthusiastic to fight Ataturk who inflicted great casualties on the British at Gallipolis, the biggest battle of WW I. The Allies agreed to a conference.
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