How the Failed Putsch in Turkey Evolved into a Counter-coup
How the Failed Putsch in Turkey Evolved into a Counter-coup

Summary/Abstract: Turkey was thrown into an abyss after a bloody, botched coup attempt on 15 July 2016. In asense it hit rock bottom with a profound political crisis, which now threatens its very existentialfundaments as the tenets of the republic are in shatters.The putschists were utterly ill-organized. Yet, more than two months after their failure thereis no clarity as to who led the destructive act. Opposite that assessment stand the concreteconsequences of the failed coup attempt, with a massive purge and waves of arrests, whichthreaten the social fabric of the country. What the world is now left to grapple with is whetherthe coup attempt was a disruptive act in an ongoing power struggle by Erdoğan, or does itsimply represent a failed coup as part of continuity; a coup which was subsequently transformedinto a counter-coup?

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