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Inside Europe: Turkey one year after the failed coup

Dorian Jones
July 14, 2017

The Turkish government has been marking the first anniversary of last year's failed coup on July 15th. Over 240 people died during the military uprising which Ankara blamed on followers of a US based Turkish cleric, Fethullah Gulen. But the post coup crackdown, resulting in the jailing of over 60,000 people, has resulted in very mixed feelings over the commemoration. Dorian Jones reports.

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