How effectively and quickly Turkey’s internal crisis is resolved is one issue.

Another is the impact on the wars raging on the other side of Turkey’s southern borders in Syria and Iraq, and on regional rivals and friends such as oil powers Iran and Saudi Arabia.

Within Turkey itself, the prospects of stability so far are not promising.

The coup attempt may have come close to succeeding, stunning a population that had mostly forgotten the regularity with which the Turkish military used to intervene in politics in the last half of the previous century.

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