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With Turkish politics, nuance is the name of the game. The nuance that's missing from that paragraph is in the next one: > But what is not clear yet in the lat
by makmanalp 10y ago
With Turkish politics, nuance is the name of the game. The nuance that's missing from that paragraph is in the next one:
> But what is not clear yet in the latest coup is whether it fits the same pattern of secular Kemalists clamping down on Islamism. There is speculation that the coup’s leaders may in fact be loyal to Fethullah Gulen, an enigmatic Muslim leader who’s currently in exile in Pennsylvania—that’s certainly what Erdogan claimed in his FaceTime address to the nation. Gulen is a former Erdogan ally who was essential to his rise, but the men have since broken.