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Well, that sucks because it looks like the coup failed.
Maybe not, I am now seeing reports that the Turkish Navy and an Army armored brigade have joined the pro-coup forces.
Let's hope they pull off a miracle and give Erdogan the boot
EDIT: The Turkish media is largely state controlled, obviously they are going to insist that all is well and the coup has been defeated. I think it will be some time still before the actual outcome is clear, especially if more forces join in the coup.
I hope the coup succeeds like it has done so in the past. If it does succeed, ISIS is going to whither on the vine, especially since Russia accuses Turkey of providing material support to ISIS, and ISIS's main supply routes run through eastern Turkey, which Erdogan hasn't bothered to shut down
So you oppose Hillary and Obama siding against the coup.
I wish FOX news would stop relying on Trump and his washed-up advisors for ideas to combat Islamic terrorism.
Someone pointed out yesterday (another channel), the more we squeeze the caliphate, the more we are going to see terrorist attacks in our country and in Europe. You really have to go the "hearts and minds" route to get rid of them.
What? Obama's "diplomacy"?
We do have to go to the "hearts" and tear them out.
From what I understand, the Turkish military is pro-democracy (they are loyal to the ideas of their founder, AtatĂ¼rk) and anti-Sharia Law and that they have deposed Turkish leaders before for straying away from the ideals of AtatĂ¼rk
The Turkish military doesn't answer to the president and they are tasked with maintaining a secular nation. Erdogan has however been putting loyalists into the top positions amongst the military, being fully aware of previous coups such as in 1980 where the military booted out wannabe Islamist's.
With this coup seemingly having failed, what we can expect to see is Erdogan acting even more authoritarian, cracking down on enemies real and imagined, basically using the coup as a pretext to eliminate his foes in the military and others, whether or not they had anything to do with the coup.
His government has become one of the most repressive on Earth when it comes to freedom of the press.
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"Turkey today has more reporters in prison on a per capita basis than any other country."
As well as increasingly pushing religion into every sphere of the government, betraying Turkey's secular legacy as founded by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
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Rather than address the 1,400 percent increase in the murder rate of women, he instructed women to stay at home and have three children, and railed not only against abortions, but also C-sections, as violations of God’s will.
Keep in mind that this is how the guy who was responsible for founding modern Turkey as a secular state felt. Erodgan is the anti-Ataturk in many ways. It would be like someone who was for putting America under the British Monarchy once more becoming President of the United States.
Turkish people we know claim that the coup was lead by a group that is more fundamentalist Islamic than the president.
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