HB News Network: Turkey’s Recent Coup

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turkey’s recent coup

Turkey’s Recent Coup: On Friday, July 15, 2016, Turkey’s military attempted a coup. Hundreds of people died and thousands were injured. The president’s location during the coup was unknown. He did however, take to FaceTime to urge his citizens to stand up and defend the country.

Turkey’s Recent Coup

This happened overnight and in the morning it was known to be a failed attempt. Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan called this an uprising from a small group in the military. When asked what will happen with the soldiers who were involved, Ilnur Cevik, the president’s aide, responded by saying they will be sentenced to prison for life.

Many groups were involved in this coup. Some were for it, some were against it. And everyone of them is blaming each other for being un-democratic. Erdoğan’s supporters blamed the military and took to the streets to protest, while the military blamed the president for diving the country.

There are many unknown facts to this story. Facts such as: who was behind this coup attempt, how successful were they, how much of the military was involved, and so forth. Erdoğan is blaming Fethullah Gülen, who led the movement called Hizmet.

However, Mr. Güllen, who now lives in the United States, rejects all such claims that he was in any way involved in this coup.

Güllen goes on to say that he believes this was a false coup attempt perpetrated by Erdoğan. Güllen also believes this was a way for him to gain more power. In response, Erdoğan asked United States to return Güllen to Turkey. Secretary of state John Kerry, responded by saying that they will look at the information they have and respond.

Still, Turkey remains apart of NATO. And even though United States has disagreed with some of what Erdoğan said or did, they still support him and say that he won the vote democratically.

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