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Failed military coup in Turkey; Erdogan promising swift reprisal
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orthodoxy1095
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Holyyyyyyyyy shit.
Welp.
Dude's not making it easy for his astroturfers, is he?
Speaking of that, where did they all slither off to?
paperboywriter
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wrong thread
Now that a week has passed, what actually happened in Ankara on the night of the coup? From what it seemed online, the coup went pretty well there initially, and there were reports on it "being hell" in the streets etc. How was Erdogan etc able to recapture it? Or did the coupers simply lay down their weapon/flee?
DXB-KNIGHT
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Well in Egypt both the people and the Army threw the MB in the trash bin.
I don't know if Turkey's army is as united as the Egyptian army.
well the state of emergency basically is a blank check that validates the arrests and depositions he have been made
DXB-KNIGHT
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On some Arabic TV there seems to be a constant polishing of Erdogan from some religious clerics that are part of the MB.
Al Arabiya made fun of one of the clerics saying that Erdogan wakes up every morning and kisses his mother's feet before heading to office. The thing is Erdogan mother passed away prior to him becoming a president.
Good thing that across the Arabic world after the downfall of the MB in Egypt, MB clerics became a joke. Most of which are hiding in Turkey and Qatar. Saudi Arabia has a few but they can't declare that they are part of the MB since they are considered as a terrorist group in Saudi Arabia.
Al Arabiya made fun of one of the clerics saying that Erdogan wakes up every morning and kisses his mother's feet before heading to office. The thing is Erdogan mother passed away prior to him becoming a president.
Good thing that across the Arabic world after the downfall of the MB in Egypt, MB clerics became a joke. Most of which are hiding in Turkey and Qatar. Saudi Arabia has a few but they can't declare that they are part of the MB since they are considered as a terrorist group in Saudi Arabia.
Ragnar Blackmane
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Just to put this into context:
It is as bad as it seems, unfortunately.
What happened until now was just the beginning. The real shitfest starts now.
At the end of the "emergency" Erdogan's word will be law.
Lol, with how things have been going since, it almost looks that way.
I wonder if the world leaders still stand by their democratically elected bs
CadetMahoney
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There was some minor media attention of the tourism industry going down, but only on web articles, not mainstream TV or newspapers.
From what I remember Turkey used to have a lot of tourism, but now it's going to get even worse and the drop off before was already bad. I doubt we'll get any mainstream (TV) attention to it though.
fabricated backlash
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Someone has to fill in the Positions Erdi freed up no?
CadetMahoney
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Be ironic if he removes any democratic process that stops him being ousted from office.
I wonder what Obama and the mainstream media will say then.
DXB-KNIGHT
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Austria summons the Turkish ambassador to explain the "way" the country is heading to.
Skynews Arabia
Skynews Arabia
"Turkish ambassador arrested after being a gulenist" in a few hours
TheSecondSpitter
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In all seriousness, if I was a Turkish diplomat in the West with few ties in Turkey, defection seems like a highly attractive option.
http://derstandard.at/2000041493584/Kurz-bestellt-tuerkischen-Botschafter-ins-Aussenministerium (in German)
It also says that there are hints that the protests in Vienna (~4000 Turks) on the night of the coup were started because of requests from Turkey. During those protests a Kurdish restaurant was attacked.
Just to clarify for people who don't speak German: The Austrian FM himself said it.
So when a number of us posited that the coup was staged, others here said that this was 9/11 levels delusional, because that conspiracy would be too big to contain.
Now the Turkish government said a 100,000 people were involved in the plot to overthrow them.
So, who's delusional?
Now the Turkish government said a 100,000 people were involved in the plot to overthrow them.
So, who's delusional?
John Dunbar
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nobody is delusional (except maybe erdogan, among other things), the turkish government is just lying.
Technically they aren't 100.000 suspected to be involved but 100.000 'viruses'. Or more like 100.000 potential Gulen supporters or potential roadblocks when implementing the presidential system. These people probably already were on some list.
We still don't know if it's staged or not, I'd rather not do baseless accusations.
Everyone. Delusional city. Next stop Democratically Electedville
In all seriousness it might not have been staged from the get go but it's defiantly being manipulated or pushed in a direction which allowed this to happen.
The list containing these viruses were ready to go so it's very hard to believe they didn't know this was coming miles away.
What I believe is that they already had lists of Gulen supporters. That much is obvious.
Now if they used those lists as soon as the coup happened, or the coup was staged to legitimize them using those lists is what no one knows... yet
Hasn't Gulen commented yet?
Pretty sure he comments and said he had nothing to do with it.
Sad Affleck
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So Erdogan managed to identify and track down 100,000 seditious elements in a few days. Impressive stuff. When is he planning to launch the helicarriers?
DXB-KNIGHT
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One of the prosecutors that allegedly detained for supporting the coup turned out to be deceased for two months prior to the coup.
Source : T24
Source : T24
Nikodemos
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Sneaky Gulenist bastard! He did that just to escape his rightful punishment!
So Gulen is a master of Necromancy it seems.
Theonik
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Tfw you make your purge list before the coup and the fuckers go and die in the meantime.
HOLY SHIT
That's just amazing in such a terrible way.
Guess we know that Erdogan planned this for a while now!
Wow, even zombies hate Erdogan and participated in the coup.
CadetMahoney
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World War Z - Ghoulenists!
Lagspike_exe
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Erdogan wanted to play big politics. Putin nuked his economy. Suddenly, he pivoted to Russia and CIA attempted a by the book coup in order to pull Turkey back into its sphere of influence. Putin bailed him out and here we are now. If Turkey's relationship with USA deteriorates (and it will), culminating in Turkey leaving NATO, Putin will win Middle East virtually over night. Check mate.
There we go
Lol.
Theonik
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*eyeroll*
Funky Papa
FUNK-Y-PPA-4
The best novel Tom Clancy never wrote.
EdwardTivrusky
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Give him time, that's Big Boss Erdogan's next step. A calendar reset back to the good old days.
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