Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s government turned a failed military uprising into the founding event of a new political order, using the events of July 15, 2016, to justify emergency powers, mass dismissals and prosecutions before completing Turkey’s transition from a parliamentary government to an executive presidency, Turkish Minute reported. The official account blamed the faith-based Gülen […] The post Erdoğan’s coup crackdown remade Turkey. Ten years later, testimony points to his own military ch...