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Monday, March 11, 2019

Leaked document sheds light on Turkey's controlled 'coup'

Leaked document sheds light on Turkey's controlled 'coup'

Some of the events of 16 July seem to have been forecast in the official document before they happened - or never happened at all (Photo: Reuters)

By Selcuk Gultasli and Andrew Rettman
BRUSSELS, Today, 12:15

The failed coup in Turkey in 2016 transformed its internal politics and EU relations.

But two and half years later, evidence is trickling out to support what the EU initially suspected - that president Recep Tayyip Erdogan knew what was going to happen and let it go ahead as a pretext to create one-man rule.

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