Turkey's President Calls For 3-Month State Of Emergency After Coup Attempt

Last night, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called for a three-month state of emergency, following last week’s failed coup attempt. The move allows Erdogan to act more quickly against those suspected of being involved in the plot.

Here & Now’s Meghna Chakrabarti speaks with Zeynep Tufekci of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She was in Turkey during the recent coup attempt.

Zeynep Tufekci, associate professor at the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She tweets @zeynep.