Fingers continue to be pointed at who may have masterminded the effort. Turkeys military has long viewed itself as the guardian of secular democracy, having already intervened in three previous coups since the sixties. We went to istanbul to speak with a man who lived through the last successful coup. He warns that in events like these, no one wins. Last weeks dramatic events have brought back memories. Celalettin can remembers the military coup of 1980 very well. He was a student in istanbul at the time. To this day, he is haunted by the brutality he experienced. This is where they arrested me. I was wedged between two cars. The police jumped out, put a sack over me, and brought me to the police station. Led interrogation began. They beat the soles of my feet, administered electric shocks, deprived me of sleep and shouted abuse at me. That was for two days. Some 650,000 people were arrested in the course of a few days. They included leftwing activists like can, liberal thinkers and ma
At who may have masterminded the effort. Turkeys military has long viewed itself as the guardian of secular democracy, having already intervened in three previous coups since the sixties. We went to istanbul to speak with a man who lived through the last successful coup. He warns that in events like these, no one wins. Last weeks dramatic events have brought back memories. Celalettin can remembers the military coup of 1980 very well. He was a student in istanbul at the time. To this day, he is haunted by the brutality he experienced. This is where they arrested me. I was wedged between two cars. The police jumped out, put a sack over me, and brought me to the police station. There the socalled interrogation began. They beat the soles of my feet, administered electric shocks, deprived me of sleep and shouted abuse at me. That was for two days. Some 650,000 people were arrested in the course of a few days. They included leftwing activists like can, liberal thinkers and many kurds. The pu
She said, we can do this as the country took in hundreds of thousands of refugees. Our question this week on quadriga, as terror comes to germany, is merkel to blame . We will address that with three people who have been following the situation very closely. Its a pleasure to welcome professor isabella heusercollier, director of the department of psychiatry at berlins leading research hospital, the charite, and she says merkel is not to blame for terror coming to germany, but is to blame for not convincingly explaining her solution. Its a pleasure to have alan posener on the show once again, the british german prominent commentator at die welt. Andays that dictatorsrs islamic terror are to blame for terrorism. Finally, amir musawi of the iraqi tv station aliraquia tv, the author of bureaucracy of terror, in inside look at Islamic State, and he says that merkel needs to be more honest about the fact that germany has to sinfully learn to live with the danger of international terrorism. W
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Turkey’s devastating earthquake has thrown into disarray plans for elections to be held by June, sparking frantic debate within President Tayyip Erdogan’s government and the opposition over a possible delay. Even before the disaster the deadliest in the country’s modern history opinion polls suggested very tight presidential