Assertion: coup | /r/ObjectUse | used as excuse
Facets:
value: for further erosion of judicial independence
type: PURPOSE
value: for a crackdown on the opposition
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: Skeptics said that the coup would be used as an excuse for further erosion of judicial independence and a crackdown on the opposition, giving the AKP greater and unstoppable power over all state institutions and paving the way for a more radical Islamist agenda at odds with the founding principles of the Turkish Republic.