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Some of the events of 16 July seem to have been forecast in the official document before they happened (Photo: Reuters)

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Leaked document sheds light on Turkey's 'controlled coup'

The failed coup in Turkey in 2016 transformed its internal politics and EU relations.

But two and half years later, evidence is trickling out to support what the EU initially suspected - that president Recep Tayyip Erdogan knew what was going to happen and let it go ahead as a pretext to create one-man rule.

The new evidence recently came in the form of a document written by a Turkish prosecutor on 16 July 2016, and obtained by an investigative journalist, Ahmet Donmez, who live...

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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.

Some of the events of 16 July seem to have been forecast in the official document before they happened (Photo: Reuters)

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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.

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