Erdogan Will Need to Liberalize Turkey to Survive
by Leonid Bershidsky at Bloomberg:
…….”Erdogan has long engaged in practices known as coup-proofing. Primarily, the moderate Islamist has strengthened the police at the expense of the traditionally secularist military. The 190,000-strong police force is one-third the size of the army, it’s well-trained and well-equipped, and it is led by cadres loyal to the regime.
Under Erdogan, the roles of the police forces’s intelligence department and of the separate intelligence service, the MIT, have grown. They, too, have been filled with loyalists. The regime has done its best to foster political divisions within the military, and systematic restrictions on secularist media have given Erdogan more control over what the Turkish public sees and hears.
Some of these measures worked. The coup plotters found no support within the military outside their own faction, and loyal police officers fought the rebellious military units. The media strategy didn’t work as well — it was a secularist media company that first allowed Erdogan to address the nation on the night of the coup……”
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http://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-07-22/erdogan-will-need-to-liberalize-turkey-to-survive
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