What's interesting when people say "this is not Turkey or Hungary!" is that not too long ago these were democracies. Their current leaders were elected within a democratic framework and were then allowed to turn into dictators, one step at a time. The transition takes 10+ yearshttps://twitter.com/SteveSchmidtSES/status/1268303467002683392 …
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And in Hungary the military played no role one way or the other.
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Yes, but he does now since 2016. In fact, Gulen denied his responsibility and claimed that the 2016 coup was a faux-coup staged by Erdogan as a premise to reform the military by removing officers and replacing them with younger officers loyal to Erdogan.
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The irony of Turkey was that in the process of democratic reform to move toward the EU, the more-or-less independent military shifted to civilian control, which ensured Erdogan's power. Since the 60s, the military had been the check on power in Turkey.
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