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Turkey’s Failed Coup, A Boon To Erdogan Autocratic Desires

ISTANBUL — Turkish society was on the verge of a major disaster last Friday. If the attempted coup d’etat had achieved its purpose, we would probably already be facing a large-scale civil war today. During the coup attempt, which lasted about 12 hours, we lived through a miniature version of this civil war with all […]

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Reading Erdogan In The Heart Of Germany’s Turkish Community

In Berlin’s Kreuzberg district, home to many people of Turkish descent, opinions about Recep Tayyip Erdogan and last week’s failed coup that tried to oust him range from shock to skepticism.

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