# The Ongoing Collapse of Turkey's Secular Democracy and... the Backstory to the Attempted Turkish Coup \[part 2/3\]

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So where did I leave off in [part 1](http://ff2f.com/blog/2016/august/the-ongoing-collapse-of-turkeys-secular-democracy-and-erdogans-shift-from-american-to-russian-fossil-fuels-part-1)? Oh yeah. Erdoğan and Putin are now BFF-FAW (Best Friends Forever For A While), Erdoğan's Turkey has quite possibly been helping ISIS unload its oil, the United States / Europe / NATO has purportedly been turning a blind eye to it all, and Turkey is trying to avoid joining its [western neighbour](http://ff2f.com/blog/2015/march/is-greece-planning-to-print-energy) for as long as it can before embarking on its journey to the endarkenment. But before I continue from where I left off and address whether or not a local supply of fossil fuels from the north could be enough to sway Erdoğan "from the bad guys to the bad guys," a little bit of Turkish history is in order. And fortunately, having introduced my Turkish confidant to the Turkish (falafel) joint I frequent, in return I was introduced by him to the work of Turkish writer Efe Aydal, whose writings went a long way in clearing things up for me.

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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at [https://ff2f.com/the-ongoing-collapse-of-turkeys-secular-democracy-and-the-backstory-to-the-attempted-turkish-coup-part-2-3/](https://ff2f.com/the-ongoing-collapse-of-turkeys-secular-democracy-and-the-backstory-to-the-attempted-turkish-coup-part-2-3/)