Political vocabulary

 Coup d’etat attempt

 PM= Prime Minister

 MP = member of the Parliament

 David Cameron = conservative party (England)

 Win by a large/narrow margin

 Referendum

 Stand = political view

 To resign= leave position

 Labor Party = Eduard Miliband (England)

 Liberal Democratic – Nick Clegg (England)

 DPM = Deputy Prime Minister

 SNP = Scottish National Party – Nikola Sturgeon

 UK Independent Party – Nigel

 Teresa May – England Prime Minister

 Home Secretary = Minister of Internal Affairs

 Foreign Secretary = Minister of Foreign Affairs

 Overthrow = cause the downfall

 To be under way = in motion

 Faction( camarilla) = secret part of the army

 Recep Tayyip Erdogan = Turkey’s President

 Hulusi Akar = Turkish Military chief

 Scores of people

 Public support/military backing

 Abandon with hand up

 Fethullah Gulen = reclusive US-based Muslim

 Fomenting unrest = stir up the public opinion

 Muscovite Russia = The Grand Duchy of Moscow

 Foreign Affairs = activities of a nation in its relationships with other nations; international relations.

 Foreign Service= Department of State or of a foreign office that maintains diplomatic and consular posts and

personnel in other countries.

 Ambassador= A diplomat of the highest rank; accredited as representative from one country to another

 Diplomat = An official engaged in international negotiations

 Helsinki Final Act says that every state has the right "to belong or not to belong to international

organizations, to be or not to be a party to bilateral or multilateral treaties including the right to be or not to

be a party to treaties of alliance."

 A think tank or policy institute, research institute, etc. is an organization that performs research and

advocacy (support of an idea) concerning topics such as social policy, political strategy, economics, military,

technology, and culture.

 The Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies (RUSI), officially still known by its old

name, the Royal United Services Institution, is a British defence and security think tank. It was founded in

1831 by the Duke of Wellington, Sir Arthur Wellesley

 The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace is a foreign-policy think tank with centers

in Washington D.C., Moscow, Beirut, Beijing, Brussels, and New Delhi. The organization describes itself

as being dedicated to advancing cooperation between nations and promoting active international

engagement by the United States. Founded in 1910 by Andrew Carnegie, its work is not formally

associated with any political party.

 The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is an intergovernmental

economic organisation with 35 member countries, founded in 1961 to stimulate economic progress and

world trade.

 General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) was a multilateral agreement regulating international

trade.