In 2016, travel writer
Jeremy Seal went to Turkey to investigate the “original” coup of 1960, which deposed the traditionalist prime minister Adnan Menderes.
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The story of Menderes — to his adoring supporters the country’s founding democrat; to his sworn enemies its most infamous traitor — goes to the heart of the feud that continues to rage between the Western and secular ambitions of a minority elite and the religious and conservative instincts of the small-town majority.
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A Coup in Turkey” is a thrilling account of the events leading up to the coup and the trials and executions that followed, a story of political subterfuge and score-settling, courtroom drama, state execution, authoritarian intolerance, and ideological division.
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