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Turkey has a history of these kinds of coups. The reason why it hasn't happened earlier in Erdogan's reign is because Turkey is trying to join the EU, and milit
by vacri 10y ago
Turkey has a history of these kinds of coups. The reason why it hasn't happened earlier in Erdogan's reign is because Turkey is trying to join the EU, and military coups work against that as it means the state is not stable.
However, Turkey is interesting in that the military coups are usually conducted in the name of freeing the people, rather than oppressing them. Usually it's just naked power grabs.
- dragonwriter 10y agoMilitary coups are almost always in the name of freeing the people. If Turkey is special, its because its military coups actually end up doing something like that in previous, not that they are in the name of it.