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The Grand Turk
Erdogan's revenge: Turkey since failed 2016 coup
2021-07-17
[AlAhram] Here is a timeline of main developments since the night a group of renegade soldiers rebelled.

A failed coup against Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important...
five years ago Thursday unleashed a sweeping crackdown that reshaped the strategic NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions...
member's political makeup and relations with the West.
Here is a timeline of main developments since the night a group of renegade soldiers rebelled.

PURGES
Some 250 people die in the mayhem that erupts on the night of July 15, 2016, which includes air strikes on parliament in Ankara.

Over the following two days, hundreds of generals, judges and prosecutors are arrested.

Erdogan blames the putsch on exiled Moslem holy man Fethullah Gülen
... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world. Gülen and Erdogan used to be really good friends, but only one of them could be sultan, and Gülen lost...
, a former ally turned arch-foe, and demands his extradition from the United States.

The purges widen to include the police, education system, trade unions and the media, along with the pro-Kurdish movement, critical media and NGOs.

Since then tens of thousands of people have been arrested and over 140,000 sacked or suspended from jobs in the public sector and universities. Dozens of media outlets have been closed.

'ONE-MAN RULE'
Erdogan gets sweeping new powers after an April 2017 referendum in which Turks narrowly approve the creation of an executive presidency that political opponents say will lead to "one-man rule".

ALL-POWERFUL PRESIDENT
Erdogan wins the first new-look presidential election in June 2018, with his Islamist-rooted AKP party holding its overall majority in parliamentary elections the same day with help from ultra-nationalist allies.

ISTANBUL LOST
The AKP wins most votes nationwide in March 2019 local elections, but loses control of the capital Ankara and of powerhouse Istanbul.

Erdogan claims irregularities and the results are annulled.

But opposition candidate Ekrem Imamoglu wins again in a June re-run in Istanbul, by a much bigger margin.

ERDOGAN'S 'NIGHT WATCHMEN'
A controversial law in June 2020 grants police-like powers to neighbourhood "night watchmen" patrols, leading critics to accuse Erdogan of trying to build a militia.

Weeks later lawyers protest a government plan to shake up the bar associations, which they say is aimed at silencing dissent and politicising their profession.

SOCIAL MEDIA MUZZLE
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
cracks down on social media in late July with a law that human rights
...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless...
groups warn could lead to censorship.

CIVIL SOCIETY HIT
In December the constitutional court rules that the three-year detention without conviction of philanthropist and civil society leader Osman Kavala is legal.

His incarceration, like that of the leader of the pro-Kurdish HDP Selahattin Demirtas -- enjugged
You have the right to remain silent...
since 2016 -- is seen as a symbol of Turkey's slide into political repression.

On March 9, 2021, Turkey pulls out of the Istanbul Convention, the first binding international treaty to prevent and combat violence against women.

SUPER TRIALS
In what is billed as the last of the super trials in Ankara, 32 former soldiers are enjugged
You have the right to remain silent...
for life on April 7.

According to official figures the courts have to date sentenced 4,500 people, giving nearly 3,000 of them life sentences.
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#1  Re the pic - are the hats to commemorate opening a new McDonald's?
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