Possible ongoing Coup in Turkey?
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African Peasant
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Al jazeera, RT, and the Turkish restaurant down the street.
I'm sure someone will find a way to blame Obama for this.
African Peasant
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Fam he's won back to back elections yet ''we're not sure if any one supports him''
Ridiculous.
They are saying he rigged all them elections.
African Peasant
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I don't like Erdogan, especially for the things he did in Syria but that guy is popular in Turkey. You can't deny it.
Also, the AKP is the party with clear majority in parliament.
The AKP isn't Erdogan and Erdogan isn't AKP. Some of his closest allies have criticized him for his powe grabs.
Plus their support is big.
Which doofus planned this coup? Erdogan just patched things up with Russia and Israel! Western leaders are quite pleased with him...
Previous coups in Turkey took place when the country was institutionally weak except for the army. Now it's institutionally strong except for the army (whether you like the color of those institutions or not). It has a democratically elected president, and youth who don't mind getting bloodied... And a divided army. I don't predict the future, but this is not a good hand for the coup folk.
*the US has no interest in such a coup, since the major issue between the US and Turkey is the Kurdish one, and that would be the same regardless.
Coups don't lead to democracy FWIW.
The AKP isn't Erdogan and Erdogan isn't AKP. Some of his closest allies have criticized him for his powe grabs.
Plus their support is big.
Which doofus planned this coup? Erdogan just patched things up with Russia and Israel! Western leaders are quite pleased with him...
Previous coups in Turkey took place when the country was institutionally weak except for the army. Now it's institutionally strong except for the army (whether you like the color of those institutions or not). It has a democratically elected president, and youth who don't mind getting bloodied... And a divided army. I don't predict the future, but this is not a good hand for the coup folk.
*the US has no interest in such a coup, since the major issue between the US and Turkey is the Kurdish one, and that would be the same regardless.
Coups don't lead to democracy FWIW.
88m3
Fast Money & Foreign Objects
Al Jazeera didn't have a clear picture of the situation when I was watching
RT is utter garbage
The Fukin Prophecy
RIP Champ
The only reason this won't turn into another Syria is because the US supports the tyrant dictator Erdogan...
Trajan
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Syria is fukked. But Assad can't continue after what has transpired over the past few years.
Trajan
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Obama: support democratically elected government
The White House has just released a statement on the reports of an attempted coup, saying that Barack Obama and secretary of state John Kerry “agreed that all parties in Turkey should support the democratically-elected Government of Turkey, show restraint, and avoid any violence or bloodshed”.
Like I have been saying HL children.
The White House has just released a statement on the reports of an attempted coup, saying that Barack Obama and secretary of state John Kerry “agreed that all parties in Turkey should support the democratically-elected Government of Turkey, show restraint, and avoid any violence or bloodshed”.
Like I have been saying HL children.
African Peasant
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Garbage or not, they had a live showing protesters in the streets.