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Is Erdogan seeing Gulenists or ghosts?
The attempted military coup in Turkey ended in total failure.
Within 24 hours, the AKP government and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan regained control.
Within hours it initiated a purge against the organizers.
But the government’s crackdown was not limited to the ranks of the military, a faction of which were the instigators of the coup.