(New York Times) Tim Arango and Ceylan Yeginsu - Turks across all segments of society - Islamists, secular people, liberals, nationalists - seem to have come together in the belief that the U.S. supported the recent failed coup, either directly or simply because the man widely suspected to be the leader of the conspiracy, the Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, lives in self-exile in the U.S. "Whenever something shocking and horrific happens in Turkey, the reflex is conspiracy," said Akin Unver, an assistant professor of international relations at Kadir Has University in Istanbul.
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