How Turkey Came to This
The attempted military coup isn’t the country’s first. But this time is different.
▻http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/interrogation/2016/07/why_turkey_s_latest_attempted_coup_was_different.html
To discuss these events, I spoke by phone Friday evening with Jenny White, a professor at Stockholm University’s Institute for Turkish Studies; White has also written several books about the region. During the course of our conversation, which has been edited and condensed, we talked about the Turkish military’s history of interfering in democracy, religious conflict in the country, and why a successful coup could lead to civil war.