The scenes on Wednesday, all broadcast live, were unimaginable in an even fourth-world country. From the early hours on, a large police force, including plainclothes officers, assembled at the gates of the headquarters of Bugün and Kanalturk TV and two dailies -- Bugün and Millet -- which belong to Koza İpek Holding. Inside, a large group of journalists, lawyers and four deputies from main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) stood in line and held the gates. The raid was about a seizure of those media outlets. In fact, it was a minor coup attempt, a sort of "dress rehearsal" for a major coup, being televised. The gates were crashed down, while clashes between the police, journalists...
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