On 15 July 2016, an attempted military coup occurred in Turkey, orchestrated by a faction within the Turkish Armed Forces of 8,500 soldiers and military cadets, organized as the Peace at Home Council.
Abandoned military vehicle used during the coup in Ankara, near the bombed building of the Directorate of Police, 16 July
Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
After coup nightly demonstration of president Erdoğan supporters, Istanbul
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
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Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is a Turkish politician who has been the president of Turkey since 2014. He previously served as the 25th prime minister from 2003 to 2014 as part of the Justice and Development P
2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt
…governments: by coups in 1960 and 1980, and by military decisions in 1971 and 1997. The military has also banned several major political parties. In 1998, Erdoğan, then-mayor of Istanbul, was banned for life from politics and jailed because he had read a religious poem by Ziya Gökalp several years before, at a…
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Prime Minister Erdoğan on 18 March 2008, during the Çanakkale Victory and Martyrs' Remembrance Day ceremony
Party leader Erdoğan's meeting with Romano Prodi (President of the European Commission) and Günter Verheugen (European Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Enlargement) in Brussels, Belgium, 2002
Prime Minister Erdoğan during a press conference with Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, at the Office of the Prime Minister (Başbakanlık), in 2014