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Turkey After Failed Coup d’état: Internal and External Repercussions

Author(s)

Mahdyya Saleh Al-Obaidi

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DOI:10.17265/1548-6591/2017.03.003

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University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq

ABSTRACT

The search for such a topic requires first to be informed of its realistic course and intellectual and historical frameworks as well as a substantive study, in order to analyze more deeply to the content and dimensions of the problem in which we are concerned; we intend to raise the issue and proceed from it to the following question: Is there a conflict between the political wings of Islam in Turkey—the political wing led by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the Justice and Development Party (AKP), and the social wing led by the Fethullah Gülen and his movement (service movement)? The answer to this question looks easy, however, the reality of the situation points to the contrary, especially after the AKP swept the majority of voters’ votes over the past 10 years, and its individuals and supporters penetrated into most political, economic, and social joints, and during this period, trimmed the nails of opponents and the opposing persons of the state institutions, especially the military, which was the brake and director of any political or security chaos, and the protector of the secular Kemal inheritance, which is not easy to tame; this has raised doubts about the policy that President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will take in front of the service movement after his apprehension by some works done by this movement on the social and cultural actions, which is considered to be of political significance. The last coup d’état seemed to have been a heterogeneous mixture and there were disaffected elements and wings on the ruling political elite. Trying to refer to the social and cultural heritage of the Turkish people, among these elements, Fethullah Gülen Group (movement of service) and some groups of the Turkish army are heavily indignant on the AKP and its leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as a result of the party’s policies during a short period of political and economic level that led to intellectual transformation of some supporters of the Fethullah Gülen group for the pro-Justice and Development Party. Here, according to Erdoğan’s supporters, the latter had captured the feelings and consciousness of large segments of the Turks, especially the youth categories, and even supporters of Fethullah Gülen. The research will highlight the issue in Turkey within and aftermath of the coup d’état of July 15, 2016 and consequences of this failed coup d’état at the internal and external level, and will answer the following questions: Is the coup d’état a process of re-engineering of this geostrategic area? Giving Turkey the vital role it deserves through its new directions in Eurasia, which is the first shield of the West in the region? Or is the coup d’état arranged by the government to get rid of political opponents as the opposition claims? Or was it already prepared by the opponents of Erdoğan and the indignant? Is this coup as a plot against Turkey as a state?

KEYWORDS

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Mohammed Fethullah Gülen, Justice and Development Party, Turkish Kurdistan Workers’ Party, 15th July 2016 coup d’état, geostrategic area

Cite this paper

Journal of US-China Public Administration, March 2017, Vol. 14, No. 3, 145-159

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