Possible ongoing Coup in Turkey?

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FAH1223 said:
The AKP has operated within the system of government Turkey has had since 1924.

Before 2002, Turkey was run by the secular military elite. It's best economic progress and political progress happened after 2002.

Erdogan is a problem but his party has immense popularity for a reason.
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money> secularism

ehh?
 
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FAH1223 said:
The AKP has operated within the system of government Turkey has had since 1924.

Before 2002, Turkey was run by the secular military elite. It's best economic progress and political progress happened after 2002.

Erdogan is a problem but his party has immense popularity for a reason.
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People just can't seem to grasp it.

''It's the economy stupid''
 
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Brehs, the will of the people has survived.


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I hope the plotters face the full force of the law. It was going to set a very bad precedent to stage a coup.


I'm proud of the Turkish people for standing up for their rights.
 
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By Nick Tattersall and Tulay Karadeniz |ISTANBUL/ANKARA
(Reuters) - Turkey's military said on Friday it had seized power but President Tayyip Erdogan vowed that the attempted coup would be put down.

If successful, the overthrow of Erdogan, who has ruled Turkey since 2003, would be one of the biggest shifts in the Middle East in years, transforming one of the most important U.S. allies while war rages on its border. Even if it fails, the coup attempt could destabilize a pivotal country in the region.

"We will overcome this," Erdogan said, speaking on a video call to a mobile phone held up to the camera by an announcer on the Turkish sister station of CNN. He called on his followers to take to the streets to defend his government and said the coup plotters would pay a heavy price.

An official said Erdogan was speaking from Marmaris on the Turkish coast where he was on holiday. Erdogan said he would swiftly return to Ankara.

Prime Minister Binali Yildirim and other senior officials said the elected government remained in office. Yildirim called the coup attempt a terrorist act by gangs and illegal formations.

Television images showed scores of people, some waving Turkish flags, gathered in major squares in main city Istanbul and capital Ankara to show support for the elected government. Gunfire broke out in both cities.

Warplanes and helicopters roared over Ankara and explosions could be heard there. Reuters reporters saw a helicopter open fire. State-run news agency Anadolu said military helicopters had fired on the headquarters of the intelligence agency.

Reuters journalists saw tanks open fire near the parliament building in Ankara, which they had surrounded.

Airports were shut, access to Internet social media sites was cut off, and troops sealed off the two bridges over the Bosphorus in Istanbul, one of which was still lit up red, white and blue in solidarity with victims of the Bastille Day truck attack in France a day earlier.

Soldiers took control of TRT state television, which announced a countrywide curfew and martial law. An announcer read a statement on the orders of the military that accused the government of eroding the democratic and secular rule of law. The country would be run by a "peace council" that would ensure the safety of the population, the statement said.

TRT later went off the air.

Anadolu said the chief of Turkey's military staff was among people taken "hostage" in the capital Ankara. CNN Turk also reported that hostages were being held at the military headquarters.
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Turkey army says it seizes power; Erdogan says: 'We will overcome this' | Reuters
 
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Trajan said:
Brehs, the will of the people has survived.


Or5Ki3.gif



I hope the plotters face the full force of the law. It was going to set a very bad precedent to stage a coup.


I'm proud of the Turkish people for standing up for their rights.
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u mean when they lose even more rights
 
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