In Turkey, the coup is over. Now, the battle begins.
In the wake of the failed coup, conspiracies have become the rage, with both Islamists and secularists dangerously divided
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Adnan R. Khan
Adnan R. Khan has been on the ground for Maclean’s in some of the world’s most unfriendly places, from Pakistan to Iraq, writing about conflict, politics, society, and the occasional vacationing tips in Afghanistan. He claims to be based in a small cabin somewhere on Turkey’s Mediterranean coast though no one can definitively prove it.
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