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What and who was behind the failed Turkish coup?
18 July 2016
Presenter: Phillip Adams
Guest: Dr David Tittensor, Research Fellow to the UNESCO Chair for Cultural Diversity and Social Justice at Deakin University

What do we know about what happened on the weekend in Turkey?  Around 6000 members of the military and judiciary have been arrested, more than 290 people killed and the Chief of the air base used by American jets has been  arrested.

Turkish President Erdogan blames the coup on rival political group called the Gulenist movement. He accuses the Gulenists of infiltrating the upper echelons of the Turkish military to plan the now failed coup.

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Saturday Extra 
23 July 2016
Presented by Geraldine Doogue

More than 58,000 Turks in public service roles are estimated to have been arrested or suspended from their jobs as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan intensifies the post coup crackdown.

Is his response a chance to seize more power?

Kerim Balci is a journalist who left Turkey late last year when he discovered he was on a government blacklist, facing arrest.  He joins Geraldine Doogue to discuss the implications of the crackdown. 

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Sundays nights with John Cleary
24 July 2016

The attempted coup in Turkey, a key NATO ally and critical partner in the current refugee crisis, also has a religious dimension. This week on Sunday Nights we turn our attention to the man and the movement that Turkey’s President is holding responsible for the coup, Fetullah Gulen.

Thousands of Turks have been arrested following the coup attempt, including lawyers, judges, soldiers, teachers and journalists. According to the Turkish Government they are pawns of Hizmet, or the Gulen Movement as it is known, after its leader-in-exile Fetullah Gulen.

So what is the Gulen Movement? What is the religious message at its heart? And to what extent is it responsible for the present turmoil in Turkey?

Guests:

    Mehmet Ozalp, Associate Professor at Charles Stuart University and Director of the Centre for Islamic Studies and Civilisation.
    Peter Manning, Author of Us and Them: A Journalist’s Investigation of Media, Muslims and the Middle East and a former ABC Director of News and Current Affairs.
    Dr David Tittensor, Research Fellow at Deakin University and author of The House of Service: The Gülen Movement and Islam's Third Way. 



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