Turkey After the Attempted Coup


  • Photographer
    Ximena Echague
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Date of Photograph
    July 2016
  • Technical Info
    Fujifilm X70 / Sony RX100 M2

I went to Turkey immediately after the attempted coup. She felt different, eerie, even strange. Huge demonstrations post-coup brought millions of people in the streets for several weeks. Were they supporting President Erdogan, who emerges stronger after the events and embarks upon a massive purge of opponents, or was it simply an explosion of nationalism against growing foreign criticism of the government? There are many alternative complot theories to explain these events, including one that blames the government itself for being behind them, as it clearly emerges as the main beneficiary of this failed coup. What happened is the last avatar of the never ending struggle between her mixture of traditional and modern, East and West, religious and secular that permeates and divides Turkish society since the founding of the republic by Atatürk. The struggle will continue, and maybe even become starker.

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