TIL about the "Deep State in Turkey", a covert, anti-socialist, ultranationalist, secularist, anti-Kurdish, anti-democratic, and anti-liberal network within military, intelligence, the judiciary, mafia, and political institutions that operates outside democratic oversight to maintain state power.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_state_in_Turkey
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1gb1s7g/til_about_the_deep_state_in_turkey_a_covert/