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.
(Excerpt) Read more at yahoo.com ...
“Hey good thing theyre in NATO eh? Solid citizens.”
yep, and next year they can join the EU to replace the U.K.
found through google at www.smh.com.au
I have posted many images of Turks by the millions in the street protesting Erdogan's Islamism and Sharia law this is the only one that has not (apparently) been scrubbed.
(2010?)
Pamela Geller tweets that her contact in Turkey is saying Erdogan has retaken power.
It never goes down any other way with totalitarians. Either our military takes them out, or someone elses does. On rare occasions Death takes them out before it comes to Mil intervention, Roosevelt for example.
Erdogan has been whittling away at the freedoms Attaturk brought to Turkey. Erdogan has been reinstating Muslim restrictions and taking away the secular state Attaturk established, nibble by nibble. Good luck to the coup. I hope it succeeds. I have been watching Erdogan’s moves for years.
Tens of millions of Muslims in Turkey are "Islamophobes" like us?
I think the link is still good.. just show.
Seizing the WH is one thing. Seizing the country is another.
“Turks waant secularism.”
Not enough of them do; that’s why Erdogan — who is an islamist — was elected president.
Yes the crowds seem pro Erdogan. It appears the coup is failing. Its not hard to lead Muslims into Islamic autocratic rule. The Koran supports it. Secular government is generally in spite of Islam.
Does Putin have a hand in this?
No, he already evacuated nearly all Russian nationals/speakers from Turkey, and drove most Syrian ISIS into Turkey cutting off the ISIS oil transport and black market.
This is Obama's fallout.
So at best we need to kill only 62% of Turks, ... sounds like a start.
You have it backwards ... the islamist are the tribe, the majority of Turkey became secular traditional under Ataturk.
Trump MUST clap the Islamists and tools of the Islamists in Obama’s government in irons before he starts his inaugural address.
Bad day to be a bad guy.
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Then it must be a bad day for Obama.
Secular government is haram in islam.
Huh?
That made no sense.
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