Posted on 07/15/2016 3:29:40 PM PDT by Navy Patriot
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey's armed forces said it "fully seized control" of the country Friday and its president responded by calling on Turks to take to the streets in a show of support for the government.
A loud explosion was heard in the capital, Ankara, fighter jets buzzed overhead, gunfire erupted outside military headquarters and vehicles blocked two major bridges in Istanbul.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in an interview over FaceTime with the CNN Turk, dismissed the action as "an attempt at an uprising by a minority within our armed forces." His office declined to disclose his whereabouts saying only that he was in a secure location.
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But Coulter needs to sit down and shut up ...
Well, let’s keep on looking in that direction. Whenever things are a mess or a confusion for me, which happens many times a day, I put the burden down on the Lord and His promise. Inevitably the picture clears.
It’s the devil who is busy looking for how things can go wrong. God looks for how things can go right. Even if we did not initially even intend them to go right.
The West could work with Ataturk, still can with al Sisi and Assad.
Well said.
He said the military lost?
Wonder how that would go down in the US.
Turks waant secularism.
Why wonder, the Saudis and "Moderate Muslim Rebels" have fully siezed control of the White Hut.
Sky News reports:
18:06
President Obama has urged support for “democratically-elected” Turkish government.
Here’s the Sky News live stream:
http://news.sky.com/story/live-turkish-army-says-taken-power-over-country-10503062
0bama better keep his ass out of this
Though I thought the Islamists managed to get changes to the Constitution to prevent the military from doing its duty to .. well, protect the Constitution and the Republic.
The Islamists spent thirty years infiltrating all aspects of society.. kind of like what the Muslim Brotherhood, CAIR, et al. seem to be doing here.
“Fox reports that Erdogan wantsGermany to grant him asylum, somewhere he can feel at home. Merkel better watch her back”
Why not just ask his best bud, Obama? He could set him up in a nice place like Hawaii...
More than they want ISIS/ISIL fourth century barbarism, abject poverty and death
“Evidently Germany denied his asylum request.”
Why? They let in everybody else...
Erdogan has been trying to push a traditional secular population toward autocratic Islamic rule. Looks like the tribe has said no. :-)
I pray for DT’s safety everyday too.
If the hag wins we’re doomed for sure.
If everything goes sour after this coup I’m going to look for her grubby pawprints.
I agree. I have been on tours off ships through there and the extreme Islamic governing has been a problem.
The women there like driving, education, looking good and not being cattle.
This is great for the people.
“0bama better keep his ass out of this”
Erdogan and Obama are buddies.
They don't want any part of that game.
HOORAY Turkish military.
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