Frustrated_me
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I know some in real life, the most insufferable and unreasonable people I've met.
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Failed military coup in Turkey; Erdogan promising swift reprisal
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His level of popular support is why it's taken them so long to actually make a move despite this having been something that seemed inevitable over the course of the past decade+.
Regginator
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Wowww, any additional sources reporting this??
I assume he can't go to far since eventually being a full on dictator will have diplomatic consequences..... Right?
Wow.
Islamists always win at the end.
Secularists want to protect everyone's rights while Islamists don'T give a fuck and are ready to slaughter and sacrifice their own lives for their ideals.
You can't win against fanatics. No one can.
Well, that and the fact that he arrested every official who opposed him with dubious charges.
He didnt went after the press and became more and more authorian?
Chinese Cartoons
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We have defence force for everything.
All the civilians getting shot... with warning shots? Unless I missed news somewhere, there are no civilian casualties.
Not that it matters to the point I was discussing anyways. Edrogan is not democratic, his government is not democratic, the elections are not democratic. Stop trying to say the coup is a affront to democracy. The coup, at least as far as we know, actually wanted to bring democracy to Turkey. Turkey has no democracy now.
PdotMichael
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People like him are doing it for free, that's what makes it so dangerous.
I've not see outright support of Erdogan.I do feel critics underestimate the insane risks of a military coup, though...
Gabriel_Logan
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If the coup is crushed, Social media will have probably played a major part in it. That's kinda amazing.
until now the info is that only warning shots were fired
Why do you guys believe that opposing a coup equals supporting Erdogan?
eyeball_kid
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Periscope has the same map feature. Revolutionizing citizen reporting.
Liberty4all
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Turkey has a long history of its secular military ensuring the government stays secular. It's in the constitution, they have a duty to protect the country from falling to an autocratic theology. We all have seen which way the wind has been turning in Turkey.
orthodoxy1095
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TheLostBigBoss
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rofl, because their are mechanisms in the government preventing total control and there are term limits
100% agreed.
Staged. Now people are chanting religious slogans and calling for sharia. Started as a Coup but quickly turned into radical islam show.
Majukun
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ehi,he can state his opinion if that's what he thinks
TheLostBigBoss
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There is video of troops opening fire at one of the bridges when people didn't respond and not move away.
orthodoxy1095
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Yeah you're right.
The people of Turkey obviously don't want a democracy, so I guess the coup leaders shouldn't have bothered trying to bring one into existence. They really deserve everything they get from now on.
Is this a fucking joke?
Presidents in the United States are term limited, for one. Our presidents don't go around jailing MSNBC or Fox News reporters, for two. We don't pack the courts with outright stooges for three.
Turkey is going to turn into a fucking joke.
I'll just repeat with I said before:
And you don't see a problem with an undemocratic institution deciding when to forcibly remove an elected leader for something as vague as 'secularism' even when their decision seems unsupported by voters and the political opposition? Just because something is written down in a constitution does not make it justified or morally right.
Frustrated_me
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Yep.
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...no.
jeez, i pray for the reasonable people living in turkey because it looks like pro erdogan is in the overwhelming majority
KurtSloane
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Coup is going to fail, army is split, most likely not in their favour.
TheLostBigBoss
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sure, but he literally sounds like a propaganda generator.
JohnTinker
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Reuters photo of a man in front of a tank at Ataturk airport
He was. Gotta love term limits. One more thing Cuntdogan wants to do away with.
TheRealTalker
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there are some civilian casualties
soldier shooting at people on the bridge and else were
and what proof do you have that he wasn't democratically elected
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the dude is bad but some people voted for him
and you think we're crazy for being anti coup yet go on all these human rights activist and worker twitters, go on political analysts twitters go on some president twitters and you see all the same
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