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The real reason some Turks are so quick to cry ‘coup’ in Brazil

When Turks comment on the "coup" in Brazil, they are actually speaking about Turkey.
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On April 17, Brazil’s lower house of Congress passed a vote to impeach President Dilma Rousseff, based on charges that she violated the country’s budgetary laws. In return, both Rousseff and some of her supporters condemned this vote as an attempted “coup" against the nation's democratically elected president. 

Interestingly, more than 6,000 miles away, staunch supporters of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan passionately agreed with this interpretation of Brazil’s affairs. Various pundits of the pro-Erdogan media wrote hastened lines about "the coup plot" in Brazil and expressed "democratic solidarity" with the Brazilian president.

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