Reports

The course of the history is full of stories of the dictatorial leaders, who spent their lives in order to grip total power and build a lasting reign. The dictators, like Turkey‟s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, seem determined to keep the legacy of their predecessors even in the 21st Century. One of the main characteristics of the dictatorial leaders is that they use all the means available to them to reach their goals, disregarding ethics and legitimacy. Erdoğan stick to the rule! His tools extend from a robust media propaganda machine to multiple paramilitary organizations. His media machine, for example, functions as a fabrication mechanism, which continually attacks the opposition and spreads hatred against them. On the other hand, his paramilitary organizations are geared to confront any kind of domestic or foreign opposition via asymmetrical ways, including terrorism. Among Erdoğan‟s multiple paramilitary organizations, SADAT is the most prominent and the powerful one.

On the night of July 15, 2016, elements of Turkish Military showed up on the streets, F-16s roared over Ankara and Istanbul, tanks blocked the bridges over the Bosphorus. It was a chaos rather than anything else. The publicized purposes of the dissenters were to overthrow the Government, realign the administration with the constitutional norms, and revive the democratic values, which are owed to the founder of the country-ATATURK. The chaos resulted in hundreds of lives lost and thousands of people wounded. The aftermath was not much better.