Posted on 07/16/2016 3:26:14 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
Following a failed coup attempt mounted by Turkey’s military, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has reasserted his control over the country.
After the botched attempt to overthrow the government which left more than 260 dead, Erdogan has set out to purge the judiciary and military. More than 2,700 judges have been removed and nearly 3,000 soldiers arrested.
The Turkish military had announced late Friday night that it had taken over power from the government, declaring that a “peaceful council” had been established “in the name of democratic order.”
Army units occupied two key bridges in Istanbul, shutting down traffic in much of the city. State television and Ankara’s airport were also seized by the military in the coup attempt. Flights to and from Ankara were cancelled following the take-over. Turkish President Erdogan issued no statements in the early hours of the coup, leading to suspicions he had been taken prisoner.
Later, Erdogan spoke out, condemning the attempted coup and placing blame on an Islamic cleric living in exile in the United States, Fethullah Gulen.
“You have engaged in enough treason against this nation,” Erdogan said in a statement. “If you dare, come back to your country.”
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Turkey’s leader needs removing.
Now only the fanatical Islamiicsts remain in government and military. A disaster.
It sounds like he is the one that instigated the coup as a pretext to whip up his followers and consolidate power before he changes the constitution to make himself an absolute ruler.
muzzies killing muzzies....thinking about it...
Welcome to Erdogan’s “Night of the Long Knives” and his consolidation of Islamist power as Hitler consolidated his power. Obama sings with glee!
That's a little under one percent of the Turkish Land Forces (315,000 personnel in 2014).
I think you are right.
Muzzies killing secularists. This Gulen fellow seems to be the rare and elusive Islamic moderate.
Anytime there are muslims involved you get hundreds dead.
He already bought the spike to mount his head on.
That picture says so much.
Turkey is 99.8% muslim. You can’t escape that by calling it secular.
Kerry’s open to Gulen’s extradition.
Sheesh. Is this you?
Wake up, Bozo. Naivete kills.
Oh my...wow...and he’s a ‘butt buddy’ to Barky I hear...
Somebody’s General neglected to read “The Art Of War, by Sun Tzu.” Poor planning and execution. Once they had Erdogan on the run, he should have been ‘incommunicado’ if at all possible. Usually, a method is to take that failed leader into military custody, put him in a secured, undisclosed environment.
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