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From my own house I could hear you know the Azans mobilizing people to come out onto the streets. There were jets flying overhead, there were bullets in the street,

like, you know, I could certainly hear from my own window.

And people basically, you know confronted the tanks and told them the soldiers to go

home and eventually they did. You're listening to War College, a weekly podcast that brings you the stories from behind the

front lines.

Here are your hosts. Hello and I'm Matthew Galt.

Many people may not realize but Turkey is actually a relatively new country.

It's just shy of a hundred years old.

It was created as a republic out of the ashes of the Ottoman Empire after World War I and largely by

Mustafa Kamal Auditor who stuck around his president until 1938. Since then there

have been elected governments, military coups, and now, well,

a Richepe Taip Erguman, and our guest will make sure I pronounce that properly,

has reshaped the country in his own likeness or at least how he likes.

To help us make sense of it all, we've invited Andrew Finkel onto the show.

Finkel has been a journalist based in Istanbul since 1989,

corresponding and freelancing for a variety of print and broadcast media.

That has included the New York Times, the Times, which by the way is the London Times,

Time, the Economist, The Guardian, the Observer, CNN, and the Financial Times,

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