What Went Wrong with Turkey
What Went Wrong with Turkey is a special issue published by the to give voice to the thousands of innocent people persecuted by the state terrorism of the Erdoğan regime. This special issue offers an alternative narrative to what really happened on the night of the attempted coup.
The authors in this special issue do not only share what they have observed and read about these recent developments, but they also articulate the great pain and disappointment they feel about what the once-beautiful Turkey has become.
INTRODUCTION
- Editorial
- The Turkey I No Longer Know – Fethullah Gulen
- What Really Happened in Turkey on July 15, 2016 – Alp Aslandogan
PERSECUTION
- On Violence, Power and Peace in Turkey’s Most Disastrous Year – Philip Clayton
- A Meditation on Persecution – Jon Pahl
- Have You No Sense of Decency? – Peter A. Cohen
- Purge, Persecution and the Imperative to Stand with the Innocent in Turkey – Scott Alexander
- Erdogan’s Most Vulnerable Victims: Women and Children – Sophia Pandya
THE COUP
- The Gulen Community: Who to Believe Politicians or Actions? – Thomas Michel
- Turkey’s Coup that was Never a Coup – Ori Z. Soltes
- Was Turkey’s Coup for Real – David L. Philips
THE DEMISE OF THE TURKISH STATE
- Turkey: A State Under One Man Rule – Anwar Alam
- Civil Liberties in the Throes of Turkish Authoritarianism – Zaman Stanizai
- Judicial Independence NO MORE – Talip Aydin
- The Demise of Turkish State Rationality – Sage Chen
- What on Earth Has Gone So Wrong in Turkey – Greg Barton
HIZMET AND FETHULLAH GULEN
- No Return from Democracy
- The Hizmet Movement of Fethullah Gülen and the Common Good
- Fethullah Gülen Is One of The Most Distinguished Islamic Scholars of Our Century
- Hizmet Embraces the Entire Human Family
- Hizmet is the true Embodiment of the Islamic Ideals of Love and Service to Other