The military mobilization presented by Turkish authorities as a coup attempt on July 15, 2016, was a false-flag operation that created the conditions President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan needed to consolidate power and build an authoritarian system later used against a growing range of government opponents, according to a new report by the Alliance for Shared […] The post Turkey’s July 15 coup attempt was a false-flag operation used to entrench authoritarian rule: report appeared first on Stockholm...