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Opinion: The Brotherhood-like Group Behind the Failed Coup

by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Jul 21, 2016 | Opinion

Those who rushed to analyse and take positions on the coup in Turkey have another chance to re-evaluate the situation. Neither the army as an institution nor the secular opposition was responsible for the attempted coup. Rather, the attempted coup was undertaken by...

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Opinion: They All Walked This Path

by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Jul 21, 2016 | Opinion

It is neither strange nor new for many Arabs to support a foreign or regional leader for various reasons. The late Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, the leader of the Iranian revolution Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the former president of Iraq Saddam Hussein and...

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A Turkish special force police officer patrols the site as the Turkish President attends the funeral of a victim of the coup attempt in Istanbul on July 17, 2016. AFP

Turkey: Failed National Renegades, yet with a Coup-Like Upshot

by Tariq Alhomayed | Jul 21, 2016 | Opinion

As the number of detainees and discharged personnel at Turkey’s security institutions, both police and army- also in sectors of jurisdiction and education- increase amidst a recently announced three-month state of emergency, all mixed with Turkish-European tensions,...

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Supporters of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Reuters

Turkey Announces 3-Month State of Emergency, Erdogan Says Coup is not over

by Said Abdul Razzak | Jul 21, 2016 | Middle East

Ankara-Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced Wednesday a three-month state of emergency in the country, and asserted that last Friday’s failed coup “might not be over” yet, accusing foreign states of being involved in the attempt to overthrow him. During a...

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Turkey: Erdogan Wins First Round of a Long Fight

by Amir Taheri | Jul 19, 2016 | World

“Nobody expected it!” This is the phrase making the rounds in global analyses of the failed coup attempt in Turkey last week. However, there may be evidence that at least some people, among them President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, might have expected it, though perhaps...