Friday, July 22, 2016

Worlds Apart: Attempted Coup – Yasar Yakis, Former Foreign Minister of Turkey


The whole world was caught off guard by the attempted military coup in Turkey, but what followed afterwards has been no less dramatic. Mass arrests of the military, judges, and journalists, on terrorism-related charges, have brought the word "purge" back into the geopolitical vocabulary but what does the future hold for Turkey? To discuss this, Oksana is joined by Yasar Yakis, a former Foreign Minister of Turkey.