[Olog-hai]

What, they are against the restoration of the secular government and backing the Islamists? Say it isn’t so.

[butlerweave]

‘Democratic order must be respected’ in Turkey: Germany, now send more Muslims

[Paladin2]

Islam is never “democratic”.

[Tennessee Nana]

so will Germany say the same thing about Trump when he wins in Nov ???

“Support the elected government etc “???

[Liberty Valance]

Frau Farbissina has spoken

[Biggirl]

Germany, send those Muslims back. Turkey can take them.

[aquila48]

Germany, the other Turkey.

[Delta 21]

Its the molsems using your democratic order that have put themselves in positions of power and landed us right where we are.

[dfwgator]

This coming from a country that arrests people for making jokes about Erdogan.

[jpsb]

Just as in Egypt, backing the Islamist not the secular military that was acting to defend it’s republic.

[stockpirate]

Turkey will not become an Islamic hell hole with advanced arms. The coup has been put down and most of it’s leaders arrested.

The leaders of the coup were true patriots

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

“The democratic order must be respected,”

Bull.

That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government,

There is no special magic that makes an elected government incapable of becoming tyrannical.

For the "just wait until the next election" nitwits, by the time the next election arrives they can have changed things so there is no way of voting them out of power.

There are elections all over the place. Perhaps 50% of them result in electing a government who has any interest in preserving "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" for the governed. And only governments who are in pursuit of those ends have any validity.

Elected or otherwise.

[ek_hornbeck]

When I first heard about the coup, I thought that it was analogous to Al Sisi's overthrow of the Muslim Brotherhood, i.e. a secularist military revolt against an increasingly Islamist government in Ankara.

However, the reality is much murkier than that - it isn't secularist vs. Islamist so much as a power struggle among two factions, neither of which is especially secular or anti-Islamist.