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Re:Turkish academics: Remain silent or risk all by tamana on Friday July 29, 2016 @03:13PM (#12189208)
Do you think you'd be alive as an atheist in Turkey if the past coups had not happened?
Re:Turkish academics: Remain silent or risk all by gokhan on Friday July 29, 2016 @06:48PM (#12190616)
I would be in a much better condition.

Coup of 1980 destroyed Turkish left and opened the door to rightwing extremists. In 14-15 years after the coup, fundamentalists and nationalists pretty much seized the bureaucracy, which led to the raise of Erdogan and deterioration of secularism.