Turkey After The Coup
Turkey After The Coup
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After last weekend’s failed coup attempt, Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has sacked or suspended as many as 50,000 people. Police, military leaders, judges, teachers, political opponents and other civil society members have been rounded up because they are suspected of having somehow been involved with the coup.
We get the latest from Henri J. Barkey of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.