Posted on 07/15/2016 2:32:57 PM PDT by InvisibleChurch
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has reportedly fled the country in a private jet following a military coup.
In the last few hours gunfire has been heard in the Turkish capital Ankara as military jets and helicopters were seen flying overhead.
In Istanbul, the Bosphorus Bridge and Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge have been closed, along with Attaturk airport where tanks and soldiers have been seen.
(Excerpt) Read more at mirror.co.uk ...
Declarations are meaningless. Really bad governance perpetuates itself by the raw and continuous display of power or the threat of physical power.
Like buying (with our money) ALL the ammunition manufactured in the last 6 years.
Ignorance is bliss.
Stupid voters is not a justification for a coup. Only the absence of elections can be. This is the situation our founding fathers found themselves in.
Again, who would you have installed as our new dictator?
Getting some other voices on now contrary to pro Erdo meme.
I have no interest in your dictatorship any more than I do Obama’s
Yes just like George Washington after the revolution when they arrested all the tories and had them sentenced.
Oh wait... Moron.
Your question is assuming the situation proceeds as you dictate. That is not necessarily the case.
The military can impose martial law until elections can be held.
There are plenty of “reasons” for a “coup”, as certainly as there are many reasons for a “civil war” or a “revolutionary war”.
Get your head on straight.
His family and connected cronies have been looting/skimming billions from the Turkish economy....follow the money on this POS Islamic Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Yep. "More than a colonel's coup" and a good chunk of the military in favor of the coup. People in the streets are likely mixed bag too, says the person on the set (not that idiot Burnett).
I was just thinking that ... I wonder if anyone will let him refuel.
Yes.
Reports are Germany denied sanctuary.
>>It will be an uphill climb just to remove her GDR imprint on the country.
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What does GDR mean?
So 0bama WAS a Russian plant. There were rumors in 2007.
Elite socialists used the division between the muslims (7th C thinking), and the rest of us (20th C thinking), in order to distract us from the take over.
Our Grandchildren will have to fight for their lives.
YES!
Best case scenario for the whole world
The dogs of war are baying!
Leading from behind?
HOORAY Turkish military
The one in Sinope is really peachy - Middle Age instruments of persuasion abound and are free used ...
Bullcrap. Martial law until elections.if that was the goal, then just have an election.
No, your head is the one not on straight. Unless you are a despot. I’ll obey no military man who seizes power.
And also, people like you are more likely to be agents provacateur.
You say it’s only until you can hold an election. If that’s true, then why need the coup? That’s un-American.
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