Possible ongoing Coup in Turkey?

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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.

Erdogan needs them as a bulwark against the Gulenists. You can see that Secularists in the army, the CHP are solidly with Erdogan and AKP.

This was a badly executed coup attempt due to desperation. Erdogan was tightening the noose, everyday hundreds of Gulenists were being fired in every part of society. Those officers in the coup attempt were all on the list to be fired next, it was move now or risk their careers. It looks like Erdogan had advanced warning of the coup and took advantage of it.
 

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The state of emergency, which comes into force after it is published in Turkey's official gazette, will allow the president and cabinet to bypass parliament in passing new laws and to limit or suspend rights and freedoms as they deem necessary.

This 3 month state of emergency is gonna last longer than 3 months
 

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Erdogan needs them as a bulwark against the Gulenists. You can see that Secularists in the army, the CHP are solidly with Erdogan and AKP.

This was a badly executed coup attempt due to desperation. Erdogan was tightening the noose, everyday hundreds of Gulenists were being fired in every part of society. Those officers in the coup attempt were all on the list to be fired next, it was move now or risk their careers. It looks like Erdogan had advanced warning of the coup and took advantage of it.

You speak with much glee and gusto, Friend.
 
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:dahell: Why is the Coup plotter wearing an blue vest just like Derays.....






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Breh, you can get into a hotel like this in Istanbul for $100 a night right now. I dunno what the price was before but :banderas:
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Does my good friend Erdogan who I respect fully, dislike Americans yet? :lupe:
 

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France declared state of emergency and suspended the same euro human rights convention after the large scale recent Paris attacks without anyone mentioning it
:coffee:

But France is a bastion of democracy.
:guilty:
 
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