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It seems more and more (to me at least) that the coup d'état attempt could have been allowed, if not blatantly organized by the ruling elite of Turkey.

There's actually a great scene in the end of the Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown Istanbul episode where someone close to the ruling class (a business owner), makes the following comment[1]:

> "Fear works. Fear gets votes."

Beyond that, I can't find a clip, but it was the most real-life foreshadowing I have ever seen in my life.

[1] http://www.eater.com/2015/11/8/9684640/parts-unknown-recap-i...

[ianai]

That show has been amazing for its relevancy.

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I'm not even super big on the show (my wife is), but twice now I've seen things foreshadowed on it. It was so blatantly clear Turkey was devolving into a pure dictatorship when the episode was filmed like two years ago.

We've seen stuff on Reddit, but the conversation they had at the end of the episode with the business owner was just scary. He was basically just like, "yeah, we're going to take power right from under everyone's noses, and it's going to make me rich"