Turkey's post-coup purge reaches 20,000

DeutscheWelle ^

[ameribbean expat]

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's retribution picked up pace on Monday as the number of people arrested with alleged links to the plot reached 7,543. They included more than 6,000 soldiers, 100 police officers, 755 judges and prosecutors and 650 civilians.

Earlier Monday, a senior security official told the Reuters news agency that 8,000 police officers, including those based in the capital Ankara and the biggest city Istanbul, had been removed from their posts on suspicion of links to last weekend's abortive government takeover.

About 1,500 finance ministry officials were suspended, a ministry official said, and CNN Turk said 30 governors and more than 50 high-ranking civil servants were also dismissed. Annual leave was postponed for more than 3 million civil service staff, while close to 3,000 judges and prosecutors have been suspended. Other reports suggested a massive purge of staff at the Interior Ministry.

[jsanders2001]

< So sad so many are going to die.

and the scumbag media won't report on it when they begin the executions. They'll help cover it up per orders from the WH.

[LeoWindhorse]

they should have whacked Dirtbag Erdogan right off , 1st thing

[Paleo Conservative]

The coup had 2 air force pilots in F-16’s whose radars were locked onto Erdogan’s plane and its 2 escort F-16’s, but the didn’t fire their middles.

[Nextrush]

If all those people had really been involved in a coup against him, the coup would have succeeded.

Erdogan is in paranoid, “Adolf Land” right now.

[cynwoody]

But it was intevitable. It was inevitable that Ataturk’s movement would fail in the long run. The whole foundation that Ataturk based his idea on was the forced repression of faith. He banned new mosques, he banned the wearing of the Fez by men, he banned the hijab for women. Now you think those are great ideas, but... what would you do a President single-handedly declared that churches would now be suppressed, and that your religion was a backwards thing to be practiced privately and in shame? That’s essentially what Ataturk did to a nation of Muslims. It simply wasn’t going to work forever, even with the Army enforcing it by military dictatorship.

Ataturk's idea is the only hope for living in peace with Muslims.

Sharia is in conflict with the US Constitution. It is either them or us. If we have to kill a couple of billion, that is not too many.

You cannot long suppress a religious people. They’ll win eventually. Kemalism is dead. It could only succeed with constant, brutal military oppression. Even when that’s the case, faith tends to win in the long run (even faiths we don’t like).

Brutal military oppression works. It just requires will! Ask HST!

[LeoWindhorse]

should taken the shot ......

[samtheman]

Reichstag Fire Ping

[moovova]

This purge should wrap it up all nice and neat for The New Caliphate.

[PghBaldy]

Good post. I would rather a crook than a jihadist.

[Stormy_MS1]

Was there just an explosion in Ankara?

[Biggirl]

Had seen online via FoxNews that there was a purge of teachers in Turkey. Wow.

[CivilWarBrewing]

Those who do NOT think 0dunga had his hands in this purge needs to awaken.

0dunga has LOTS more undermining of our allies and semi-allies to do BEFORE HE LEAVES OFFICE IN SIX MONTHS, and Turkey was ONE of them. It's no mistake that he endorsed Morsi in Egypt while asking Mubarak (ally to both U.S. AND Israel) TO STEP DOWN. Fortunately a military coup in Egypt resulting in a great man taking leadership (Al-Sisi) was a shock to 0dunga and not what he wanted. But what is happening in Turkey going FULL-ISLAMIST is just one more item 0dunga can cross off his 'things to make happen before I leave office' list.

F'ING AMERICA has been his goal since the day he took office. What's happening in Turkey is problematic to the war on terror and that's EXACTLY what 0dunga wants, TO STOP THE WAR ON ISIS ON EVERY LEVEL IN EVERY COUNTRY, making it nearly impossible for a President Trump to deal with.

Think 'scorched Earth' for the next 6 months.

[Fitzy_888]

“....close to 3,000 judges and prosecutors have been suspended.”

Enter Sharia law...no law degree required.

[Grampa Dave]

Rule #1 for a successful coup: First Kill the King and make sure he is dead!

[Fitzy_888]

Excerpt:

More than 15,000 education staff in Turkey have been suspended after last week’s failed coup, as a purge of state officials widens still further.

The ministry of education accused them of links to Fethullah Gulen, a US-based cleric the Turkish government says was behind Friday’s uprising.

Mr Gulen denies any involvement in the coup attempt.

More than 1,500 university deans have also been ordered to resign by Turkey’s high education board.

Link: https://www.google.com/amp/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/36838347?client=safari#

[SaveFerris]

[IIRC Obama just pledged support for Erdogan a couple of days ago. If so, I wonder where that leaves USA foreign policy vis a vis Turkey...]

House of Togarmah, Ezekiel 38 KJV.

And Obama, along with a little help from his friends, just gave $150 billion dollars to one of the main players, Persia (Iran).

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

The coup was fake. History will prove that it was fake. It was only staged so thousands of people who MIGHT be a threat to his rule could be neutralized. That’s all it was.

[Jay Thomas]

“nuke’em till they glow!”.

Words painted outside a nuclear weapons maintenance bay.

[Sam Gamgee]

All the telltales of a false flag.

The cherry on top will be if Kerry does send Fethullah Gulen to Turkey. It wouldn't be beyond that traitor.

[Sam Gamgee]

I’ll take brutal military oppression on Turkey is it saves the West.