Turkey thread: now stuffed with more authoritarianism!

by **Souseiseki** » Fri Jul 15, 2016 4:13 pm

Upendo Mwenyewe wrote:
Geilinor wrote:Turkey will become a terrible dictatorship and have no hope of it ending.

YOU COULD HAVE PREVENTED THIS

...by not trying to oust the guy who counts with the support of millions of people.

how? do you need to literally get arrested by erdogan before you have an "oh... right" moment?

by **Aelex** » Fri Jul 15, 2016 4:13 pm

Serconas wrote:https://twitter.com/seref_i/status/754082218407059456

Imams are supporting Erdogan over the secular and nationalist army. How surprising.

by **Kelinfort** » Fri Jul 15, 2016 4:13 pm

Aelex wrote:
Valaran wrote:Its not looking good enough, basically.

Shit. All my hopes are with the brave soldiers insurrecting for Liberté. If they succeed, so will Turkey. If they don't, well...

It's not good enough for a coup.

But it is good enough for a civil war.

by **Kalifati Arab shqiptar** » Fri Jul 15, 2016 4:13 pm

Upendo Mwenyewe wrote:Former US Ambassador to Turkey in al-Jazeera right now.

Don't follow Al Jazeera mate, full of cucks and pro Islamist propaganda.

by **Valaran** » Fri Jul 15, 2016 4:13 pm

Nariterrr wrote:
Aelex wrote:Shit. All my hopes are with the brave soldiers insurrecting for Liberté. If they succeed, so will Turkey. If they don't, well...

Why is it you always use french when you talk?

he's french...

by **Umars memeistan** » Fri Jul 15, 2016 4:13 pm

Breaking: aniti coup protest have some tanks under there control
scose skynews

by **Camicon** » Fri Jul 15, 2016 4:13 pm

So, what the fuck is happening in Turkey?

by **Arcturus Novus** » Fri Jul 15, 2016 4:13 pm

Nariterrr wrote:Obama is supporting the government.

Does this shock you? Turkey is a NATO member and a country in the anti-ISIS coalition. He can't exactly publicly support a group trying to take over.

Saiwania wrote:This is wonderful. Now this is the coup I've been waiting for. Word is that Turkey's military has full control so it has succeeded.

Turks are governed by an arch-conservative government now. Isn't that what you're into?

by **Zeinbrad** » Fri Jul 15, 2016 4:14 pm

Nariterrr wrote:
Aelex wrote:Shit. All my hopes are with the brave soldiers insurrecting for Liberté. If they succeed, so will Turkey. If they don't, well...

Why is it you always use french when you talk?

He's French.

by **Geilinor** » Fri Jul 15, 2016 4:14 pm

Upendo Mwenyewe wrote:
Geilinor wrote:Turkey will become a terrible dictatorship and have no hope of it ending.

YOU COULD HAVE PREVENTED THIS

...by not trying to oust the guy who counts with the support of millions of people.

That wouldn't have stopped Erdogan and I am not involved with this, so what how would I have prevented it?

by **Souseiseki** » Fri Jul 15, 2016 4:14 pm

Nariterrr wrote:
Aelex wrote:Shit. All my hopes are with the brave soldiers insurrecting for Liberté. If they succeed, so will Turkey. If they don't, well...

Why is it you always use french when you talk?

he's french. in this case he's probably doing it because turkey's secularism is to a great extent inspired by france. but of course, you already knew that.

by **Al-Khemikal** » Fri Jul 15, 2016 4:14 pm

This is a little irrelevant but I thought it might be useful information.
A friend of mine commented on a photograph of one of the fighters flying close over Ankara.
"F-16
Funny
Looks cosmetic
It's carrying 2 AIM-120 radar missiles and 2 AIM-9 infrared missiles
2 external fuel tanks
That's a self defense loadout
Selection of weapons
But what's more strange is that they don't seem to have any clear mission
They're not carrying any bombs or air to ground missiles
And they're not carrying a full air-to-air load out
Could be a deterrent
Could be to reassure people
It's also running with its navigation lights
Not really something you do in combat
Probably to reassure people maybe
Like the unarmed F-16 flyovers after 9/11
Plus it's flying very low"
Apologies for the formatting, this is a truncated text conversation.

Image: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/news/2016/07/15/103393816ANKARAJetNEWS-xlarge_trans++Cca9BU0TuyHkZJzHTSJqzg57EFzlVrO-V_kNyX87nOk.jpg

by **Aelex** » Fri Jul 15, 2016 4:14 pm

Kelinfort wrote:It's not good enough for a coup.

But it is good enough for a civil war.

If they lack support in the Navy, it may sadly turn sour. They need to secure access to the coast if they hope to hold Constantinople.

by **Valaran** » Fri Jul 15, 2016 4:14 pm

Geilinor wrote:
Nariterrr wrote:Obama is supporting the government.

Obama didn't say anything.
https://www.google.com/search?client=opera&q=obama+turkey+coup&sourceid=opera&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

This seems legitimate enough for me.
Well, maybe. People are certainly taking it as legitimate, and it seems fairly reasonable to assume that this is what obama would say.

by **Eol Sha** » Fri Jul 15, 2016 4:14 pm

Kelinfort wrote:
Aelex wrote:Shit. All my hopes are with the brave soldiers insurrecting for Liberté. If they succeed, so will Turkey. If they don't, well...

It's not good enough for a coup.

But it is good enough for a civil war.

Assuming the military doesn't stand down within the next couple of days.

by **Kalifati Arab shqiptar** » Fri Jul 15, 2016 4:14 pm

Arcturus Novus wrote:
Nariterrr wrote:Obama is supporting the government.

Does this shock you? Turkey is a NATO member and a country in the anti-ISIS coalition. He can't exactly publicly support a group trying to take over.?

Lol, that is very funny.

by **Esternial** » Fri Jul 15, 2016 4:14 pm

Souseiseki wrote:
Nariterrr wrote:Why is it you always use french when you talk?

he's french. in this case he's probably doing it because turkey's secularism is to a great extent inspired by france. but of course, you already knew that.

Laïcité Laïcité Laïcité Laïcité Laïcité Laïcité

by **Serconas** » Fri Jul 15, 2016 4:15 pm

Aelex wrote:
Serconas wrote:https://twitter.com/seref_i/status/754082218407059456

Imams are supporting Erdogan over the secular and nationalist army. How surprising.

Ye.
They also begun the nightly prayer earlier.

by **Socialist Nordia** » Fri Jul 15, 2016 4:15 pm

Kalifati Arab shqiptar wrote:Now we need a coup in Germany and France.

Except there's no valid reason for that.

by **Umars memeistan** » Fri Jul 15, 2016 4:15 pm

breaking: there is a curfew stated in ankara
skynews

by **Upendo Mwenyewe** » Fri Jul 15, 2016 4:15 pm

Souseiseki wrote:how? do you need to literally get arrested by erdogan before you have an "oh... right" moment?

I said it a few pages ago, Erdogan will come back as emboldened as never.

Kalifati Arab shqiptar wrote:
Upendo Mwenyewe wrote:Former US Ambassador to Turkey in al-Jazeera right now.

Don't follow Al Jazeera mate, full of cucks and pro Islamist propaganda.

I'm not going to take someone who non-ironically uses the word "cuck" seriously.

by **Napkiraly** » Fri Jul 15, 2016 4:15 pm

Valaran wrote:
Aelex wrote:Fuck are things starting to look grim for the military? Because I seriously hope that this coup succeed.

Its not looking good enough, basically.

Apparently it could be a colonels coup. Which doesn't necessarily bold well if they haven't established control yet.

by **Kelinfort** » Fri Jul 15, 2016 4:15 pm

Aelex wrote:
Kelinfort wrote:It's not good enough for a coup.

But it is good enough for a civil war.

If they lack support in the Navy, it may sadly turn sour. They need to secure access to the coast if they hope to hold Constantinople.

Istanbul is going to a point of intense conflict.

by **Deutschen Demokratischen Republic** » Fri Jul 15, 2016 4:16 pm

Cockroach uprising?

by **Kalifati Arab shqiptar** » Fri Jul 15, 2016 4:16 pm

Socialist Nordia wrote:
Kalifati Arab shqiptar wrote:Now we need a coup in Germany and France.

Except there's no valid reason for that.

Ousting Hollande the terrible and Merkel the destroyer?

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