The wide public saw someone they could identify with and thought of ways to prevent him from being executed as that was the penalty for his crime of
failing a military coup d'état.
Unmarked graves are seen at the «Traitors» Cemetery», set up specifically to bury the bodies of coup plotters who died in
the failed military coup of July 15, in Istanbul, Turkey, July 29, 2016.
He is among the dozens of Turkish soldiers accused of trying to overthrow President Tayyip Erdogan and the government in
a failed military coup this month, his fate a sign of the fury felt over a night of bloodletting that killed more than 240 people.
According to this source, Turkish government has operated tremendous changes after
the failed military coup:
Golge, a dual citizen who had been studying the effects of radiation on astronauts, was swept up in a crackdown that followed Turkey's 2016
failed military coup.
A companion piece for Oppenheimer's powerful 2012 documentary «The Act of Killing», «The Look of Silence» takes a more introspective view of the events where
a failed military coup was blamed on «communists» and prompted the military government to foster a general hatred leading to an
Turkish painter and journalist Zehra Doğan was detained in Turkey after
the failed military coup.
+ 14 contemporary art galleries in Istanbul have banned together to start «Gallery Weekend,» an effort to reinvigorate the city's art scene in the wake of
the failed military coup.