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Turkey purge compared to Stalinist Russia

The Turkish Prime Minister, Binali Yildirim, has vowed to purge supporters of the Gulen movement, in the aftermath of the failed coup.

Anne Applebaum, the author of Iron Curtain, a book about the Sovietisation of Eastern Europe, told Ritulah Shah that the government's eradication of Gulenists reminded her of the way Stalin used to do business.

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