think that by now Turkey had run out of handcuffs. But although the wave of arrests related to the bizarre coup attempt that rocked the country in the summer of 2016 has certainly slowed, it has not stopped. Every week seems to bring a new round-up of suspected members of the Gulen community, or, the Islamist movement that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan blames for the coup. At least 41 people, many of them soldiers, were detained on July 27th.
The movement is a tough nut to crack. From the 1970s onwards, it attracted hundreds of thousands of followers, drawn mostly from among the poor and devout students who gravitated to its prep schools and dorms. After the end of the cold war, it began to market itself as the torchbearer of an enlightened Islam, setting up foundations abroad and winning a circle of Western well-wishers.
Much about the night of the putsch remains unclear. Some 250 people died in what resembled an army mutiny accompanied by a series of terror attacks more than a traditional coup. The official version, in which Gulenist sleeper cells in the armed forces awoke to take over the country all on their own, seems as watertight as a teabag. To this day, Turkey’s government has not produced evidence of what the plotters planned to do once they seized power.
Bunch of psychopath. Because he refused to cow to your devilish inclinations. Erdogan Forever. Long live Turkey
Les acteur globalist ils ont encore besoins d’Erdogan après il vont débarrassénnt comme Kaddafi et Mübarek ... pour le moment il a pas l’alternative... et il joue bien sa joue
Trying to distort the truth about president of Turkey and show he is (the bad guy) will not work in reality Everyone knows who is Gulen (CIA) Spoiled puppy who get full support to make a coup against democratically elected president Erdogan! coup failed Accept it Economist 😉
Kim diyo bunu sizene bizden adi herifler
A bully he is indeed. Coming after a line of bullies. LethalNationalism want more proof? Just watch this...
Ulu Önder Mustafa Kemal Atatürk'ün yolunda azim ve kararlılık ile devam edeceğiz biz Türk evlatları ve vatanseverleri olarak
Amerika ve onun kuklası FETÖ terör örgütü ülkemizde darbe yapmaya kalkıştı ama millet bu hainlere cevabını verdi. Ben bir Atatürkçü vatan sever olarak iyiki varsın sayın Erdoğan diyorum.
Bully is Joe Biden.Recep Tayyip Erdogan come with many elections
Biden nedir peki?
Just because he refuses to bow down to Western bullies? This is a lie.
nobody helped more to Erdogan than EU and the Saudis/UAE/Qatar/Bahrein...come on...just follow D moneeee
Worse to 'Democracy' but better minion
“Purpose of journalism is to provide citizens with accurate and reliable information they need to function in a free society.” I think gonultol GokhanBacik BayramBalci need to read and review principles of journalism.
This is not correct. When Gulen movement members were active, Turkey was like shining star. You are bending the truth. You are cheating people.
'The question which the Economist story failed to ask is how Erdogan cooperated with his old foes, the Kemalists to end the Turkish democracy and to crush remaining opposition and silence the press.' by aydogan29
Fethullah Gulen is a CIA agent everybody in Turkey knows that.
Turkey could be a great country, but has never really been able to get out of its own way.
Totally absurd. Bullshit.
bullshit.
Biden is Nazi China spy
how about you write a piece on Israel and how they have being bombing Ghaza for the last 6 days! and putting 2M people under seige for more than 5 years. Or thats righteous in your hypocritical standards?!!
Oh don't forget to blame President Obama and the CIA that orchestrated the Gulenist coup against Erdogan and made him a hero to a large section of the Turkish public and justified his subsequent repression of all opposition and dissent to his rule.
bütün zorbalar diktatörler otokratlar batı ülkelerindedir.erdoğan adam gibi adamdır
Zorba Joe Biden , ona yardim eden ise CIA dır
CIA controlled structure
goodbye to you globalists soon
You forgot Trump.
Aflorezdeandrad
Tri maa ka bsda
Didn’t understand most of that headline. Is this a Cipher?
I also voted for Erdogan before 2010. Because at that time he seemed to defend law and modern values. Am I responsible too? Almost all the West praised Erdoğan at that time. Are they responsible too?
The editor should have looked at the fact that Turkey had the best World Justice system ranking in 2010 but due to the corruption investigation, Erdogan purged prosecutors/cops and chose to work with the secular Eurasian deep state, which ended up with more corruption (2020).
I live in Istanbul and know how Erdoğan is a strong and good leader... You are trying to attack from everywhere because you cannot buy Erdogan..
Yeni adamınız kim yerli tohumu yasak eden zihniyet mi!
Fetö sizin adamınız sanıyordum çöpe attığınıza göre işiniz bitti sanırım bu arada sandığınız gibi türkiyede kötü bir durum yok sevinemiceksiniz New great turkey💪
And Economist reap the benefits of the issue thanks to the generosity of Erdogan. Come on Economist, try to make money somewhere else, people are being killed by that Dictator...
Liberate Hagia Sophia HagiaSophiaCathedral
He doesn't.
How much did Erdogan pay for you to run this laughable trash? Look, if you want to turn the economist into fox news, you'll do it without my subscription.
The answer to the plight is peace even within a fight peace prevails the best of the best dream of peace
you better verify your facts before you publish an article for your millions of readers if you genuinely care about their desire to learn the truth.
Look, it’s good to know for you that nobody in Turkey cares your articles about ‘democracy’ The West, in general, lost all credibility in the eyes of whole nation because you are HYPROCRITES in terms of these. Why F. Gulen, a bloody coup plotter, is still PROTECTED in the USA?
Gulen is a terrorist who serves Rome
İngiltere at değiştirecek galiba. Fetö'yü satışa çıkarmış galiba.
99% of Turkish people knew it was Gulen who staged the coup the moment it happened. Unfortunately, the whole west turned a blind eye to the obvious. Wondering why the sudden recognition after 5 years?
The exiled Imam did much to cripple democracy.
Realizing deep traces of the idea of McCarthyism in what the dictators like Erdogan is doing now to the innocent women, men and babies 👶 is not so difficult. Is Economist not able to realize this or is it about the ill intention of author of the article and thus Economist?
I dont see any objectivity with this article. It seems to be very sided, and completely BIASED. How to expect any support or sympathy from anyone in TURKEY towards the GULEN Movement without risking your life and your entire family, and confiscation of your wealth!!!
Siz Recep Tayyip Erdoğan gibi bir lidere sahip olsaydınız bu kadar aciz olmazsınız acizlik paçalarınızdan akıyor
Are you afraid of Recep Tayyip Erdogan? I would be afraid if I were you, a leader like a leader.
That’s obvious u will continue to do ur propaganda against turkey bc of their stance .. paid journalism (yellow journalism) manipulate minds of common people with their agenda ..
F.gulen began to burden american idiots 😁
Some says he passed away like a pig in Pennsylvania where he had been hiding his own self for over the years
Trying to distort the truth about president of Turkey and show he is (the bad guy) will not work in reality Everyone knows who is Gulen (CIA) Spoiled puppy who get full support to make a coup against democratically elected president Erdogan! coup failed Accept it Economist 😉
On the contrary, let's say REIS waited to get stronger and when the time came, the slap hit the fetuses.
Erdogan seems to be turning his back on Europe and looking to the East but this only to be expected when Europe has turned its back on Turkey for far too long. It’s time Europe embraced Turkey as a friend, an ally and historically important central member.
Man, fuck Erdogan
And who has enabled Gülen so far create such power worldwide🤣🤣🤣🤣 western alliance🤔🤔🤔
Not Gulenists, they are terrorists. Not decisive, it is betrayal. And not ‘consolidate power’, it was a military coup.
He's a criminal and a traitor,why US is giving him asylum hand it over to Turkey or again Christian world is planning for another coup like Morsi to be seated another Coward like SiSi MFATurkey RTErdogan trpresidency trtworld AJEnglish
Gareth blames the opposition for Erdogan's decades long tendencies to islamofascism. If you hadn't stirred the bear.....
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