From purges to a ‘new Turkey’ – the final stage of the state’s reconstruction.

Abstract:

The purges in the state apparatus which have been underway in Turkey since the failed military coup represent a decisive stage in the construction of a ‘new Turkey’, involving both the final elimination of the remaining elements of the old Kemalist establishment and the crackdown on the group centred around Fethullah Gülen, a preacher and former government ally accused of plotting the coup.

The aim of the purges is to ultimately replace the present elites with new ones and as a result to eliminate any conceivable opposition capable of threatening the rule of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

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ESO: Background information: Turkey loses its brains http://www.europeansources.info/record/turkey-loses-its-brains/

ESO: Background information: Fresh extension of state of emergency in Turkey http://www.europeansources.info/record/fresh-extension-of-state-of-emergency-in-turkey/

ESO: Background information: Turkish purges exposed by Council of Europe http://www.europeansources.info/record/turkish-purges-exposed-by-council-of-europe/

ESO: Background information: Erdogan at UN urges global action against Gülen ‘terrorist organisation' http://www.europeansources.info/record/erdogan-at-un-urges-global-action-against-gulen-terrorist-organisation/

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