Well, Hari, Turkey is an extremely divided and polarized society, and the former prime minister now President Tayyip Erdogan is an enormously polarizing figure. He has been driving the country in a direction of greater division because of his desire to establish an executive presidency. There’s a lot of concern about his autocratic rule and those divisions, as it turns out, also appeared to be mirrored in the military. And some members of the military, obviously, yesterday decided to — or earlier, but activated yesterday a plan to take him out of office.
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