Possible ongoing Coup in Turkey?

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Damn, fukked up I was in Istanbul in January this year, there was a bombing the second day I as out there. Happy the coup didn't pop off then.

Once this purge starts we might be on the railway to ww3 tho. Erdogen has to be completely unhinged right now and anyone that talks slick and tries to impede might catch missiles.
 
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MMSex said:
the more i see out of them the more i realize that coup shoulda probably went through
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Its the consensus of most Turkish secularists that the Gulenists were behind the coup- its why the CHP also opposed it. The coup attempt actually ensures that secularists will hold power in the military again. It was the Gulen movement that was behind the Ergenekon arrests, all of which have been dropped since. All of the generals arrested under Ergenekon had their charges dropped last year. The Gulenist purge has been going on for two years now but this just accelerated it. Of those 15,000 teachers almost all are from Gulenist schools. People dont realize that Turkey has a massive public sector and while the numbers are big, its been a targeted crackdown, and its why the general population isnt really outraged. Secularists dislike the Gulenists even more than the AKP. Erdogan has also reappointed many generals who were arrested under those investigations in recent days. BTW the CHP is having an anti coup rally at Taksim this weekend

Turkey is not a black or white battle between secularists vs Islamists anymore.
 
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FAH1223 said:
its the consensus of most Turkish secularists that the Gulenists were behind the coup- its why the CHP also opposed it. The coup attempt actually ensures that secularists will hold power in the military again. It was the Gulen movement that was behind the Ergenekon arrests, all of which have been dropped since. Secularists dislike the Gulenists even more than the AKP. Erdogan has also reappointed many generals who were arrested under those investigations in recent days.

Turkey is not a black or white battle between secularists vs Islamists anymore.
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You seem well versed in the region...Did he make a deal with the secularists,Handing them guns after locking them up seems risky unless he is sure they wont turn them on him.
 
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