Turkey and the Failed Coup One Year Later

One year after the failed coup of July 15, 2016, Turkey is in crisis. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has used the postcoup crackdown on the junta plotters to cast a wide net over his opponents, from leftists to seculars and Kurdish nationalists. Yet the country is deeply polarized in its perception of Erdogan: he is either blindly loved or completely loathed. Furthermore, this crisis is shaping not only Turkey s role as a U. S. ally against the Islamic State in Syria but also its ties to NATO, Russia, and the EU. To discuss the foreign policy implications of a divided Turkey, The Washington Institute hosted a Policy Forum with Omer Taspinar, James F. Jeffrey, and Soner Cagaptay.