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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan 'flees country in private jet' after military launches coup
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| 7-15-16
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.
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: chicken; erdogan; flee; militarycoup; militerycoup; turkey; turkeycoup
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To: MaxistheBest
Give him the Ceausescu Treatment!
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posted on
07/15/2016 2:52:44 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: InvisibleChurch
Charted for the Lincoln Bedroom?
42
posted on
07/15/2016 2:52:51 PM PDT
by
bgill
(From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
To: MaxistheBest
To: Pearls Before Swine
Erdogan is an agent for evil. “Islam is Islam. Democracy is the train we take to get there.”
All Muslims are the same!
(There is nothing unique/special about the words "radical Islam", "Nation of Islam," "Isis" !!! It is just "Islam!
44
posted on
07/15/2016 2:52:52 PM PDT
by
Grampa Dave
(Obama Immigration Policy-Bring Terrorists to Our Neighborhoods-Take our guns away-Make us feed them!)
To: MaxistheBest
Hope his plane runs out of gas.
45
posted on
07/15/2016 2:52:58 PM PDT
by
hoosiermama
(Trump card is exposing the Fifth Column in the US)
To: dfwgator
46
posted on
07/15/2016 2:53:25 PM PDT
by
karnage
To: HomerBohn
No no, let Trump do the job properly.
47
posted on
07/15/2016 2:53:31 PM PDT
by
Enchante
(Hillary's new campaign slogan: "Guilty as hell, free as a bird!! Laws are for peasants!")
To: InvisibleChurch
Why do we never see a military sedan?
It’s always a coupe.
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posted on
07/15/2016 2:53:53 PM PDT
by
TruthWillWin
(The problem with socialists is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.)
To: exit82
And one with Islamist leanings at that.
To: InvisibleChurch
Their airforce needs to shoot that jet down.
There is too much mischief when the deposed is permitted to run free.
50
posted on
07/15/2016 2:56:08 PM PDT
by
Chickensoup
(Leftist totalitarian governments are the biggest killer of citizens in the world.)
To: exit82
goats everywhere should be alarmed
51
posted on
07/15/2016 2:56:11 PM PDT
by
ptsal
To: Kenny
Wonder if the lawsuit against the German journalist or comedian will be dropped. Seems like the head Turk no longer has much clout...
52
posted on
07/15/2016 2:57:35 PM PDT
by
ptsal
To: exit82
"now trying to seek asylum in Germany" Good odds that Merkel will roll out the red carpet for that "refugee".
53
posted on
07/15/2016 2:58:29 PM PDT
by
setha
(It is past time for the United States to take back what the world took away.)
To: setha
Merkel needs to be the next to go.
To: cradle of freedom
Ataturk made the military the guardians of his revolution to prevent the type of government that has been evolving in Turkey for the last decade.
To: Lent
Please fly over Russian airspace! Lol...that would be sweet justice.
56
posted on
07/15/2016 3:02:40 PM PDT
by
mac_truck
(aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
To: InvisibleChurch
YES!! Where’s he going? The WH?
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posted on
07/15/2016 3:02:41 PM PDT
by
dp0622
(The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
To: InvisibleChurch
Many of the solutions in this thread suit my thinking to a
T !
It's the kind of 'inclusive' to make a guy smile :-)
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posted on
07/15/2016 3:03:00 PM PDT
by
tomkat
To: Lent
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posted on
07/15/2016 3:03:08 PM PDT
by
dp0622
(The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
To: Grampa Dave
Yup. Islam is Islam.
Says it all.
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posted on
07/15/2016 3:03:14 PM PDT
by
samtheman
(Trump For America.)
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