Director: Can Dündar
Writer: Can Dündar
Producer: Tim Klimes, Christiane Mädge, David Schraven
The night of July 15, 2016 changed the history of Turkey. On that day there were coordinated attacks by parts of the Turkish army, among others in Istanbul. The aim of the military: a coup against the government. The decisive confrontation occurred on the Bosporus Bridge. While President Erdogan was still on vacation, live at TV he called on the people who were devoted to him to stand against the military. As an enemy for the masses, he presented his adversary Fethullah Gülen, whom he branded as the coup leader. He also urged the imams of the country's mosques to condition the population to resist. And so it happens that at night thousands of agitated people take to the streets to oppose the armed insurgents. The death toll was high. 352 people died across Turkey during the attempted coup. The consequences are even more serious: Erdogan used this gift, as he called it himself, to undermine democracy, to arrange mass arrests of dissidents and to transform Turkey into a dictatorship.
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Director: Can Dündar
Writer: Can Dündar
Producer: Tim Klimes, Christiane Mädge, David Schraven
Production Companies: AVE Publishing GmbH & Co. KG, Correctiv, Frontal21, ZDF
Countries: Germany
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