Analysts have used the terms “phobia,” “trauma” and “syndrome” to describe the country’s mind-set, as if Turkey were a patient on a psychologist’s couch. Ever since Sèvres, they have said, Turkey as a nation has been suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. One way the syndrome is believed to have manifested itself is in Turkey’s denial of the Armenian genocide. More recently, Turks have blamed the United States and Western allies for massive street protests, a corruption scandal and this summer’s failed military coup. The Turkish government has accused followers of Fethullah Gulen, a Muslim cleric in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania, of plotting the coup.

Source: New York Times September 12, 2016 09:00 UTC