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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Wow
No, but since WW I, they have a long tradition of secularism and rejection of fundamentalism. When fundamentalists threatened to gain power, the military would stage a short-lived coup until secular democracy could be reestablished. That ended with the ascension of Erdogan, who has been infiltrating the military with fundamentalists. Now he is purging the secularists, and that is the end of the order established by Kemal Ataturk and maintained by the periodic intervention of the military. The foxes are in charge of the chicken coup.
I think women are going to poison and kill people over this.
Yes do Erdogan's bidding you weak and pathetic excuse of a President.
PLEASE TELL ME YOU'RE A PARODY/TROLL ACCOUNT
Bingo. Power grab, in a most brutal fashion.
They are Muslims who like stuff and looking good.
LOL how was the room service? I'm guessing 'we has' means you're trolling but now's not the time for LULZ, sonny.
The blessing?
Lord help us if we let Hillary continue this by being “never Trump”.
A good friend of mine said when Bammy was running for president the first time that he was the anti-Christ. And she’s a Muslim! I’m beginning to think she’s right.
If Ergodan staged the coup, he really stepped in it.
Gimme an S
Gimmie an L, L, L
Look at your keyboard, moron.
Exactly. Low life expectancy.
Try to keep up.
Islamic tyrant with no checks and balances IMO.
Not as if Obama would out him if he knew anything.
If he staged it, to have scheduled it for when he was on vacation at a Mediterranean resort, he had to be mighty confident nothing could go wrong.
We stayed on ship but travelled daily, so we got to see their homeless they say they don’t have and spoke with their people.
Their women are very westernized though Muslim. They don’t want Sharia government. They are educated UNLIKE the women who like Sharia in their culture.
“We has” was “we had” on an iPhone 6. It likes to autocorrect in a bad way for me. Have to turn it off.
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