Posted on 07/16/2016 8:20:13 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Germany said democratic institutions in Turkey “must be respected”, as a military coup attempt against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was under way, the spokesman for Chancellor Angela Merkel said Saturday.
“The democratic order must be respected,” Steffen Seibert tweeted. “Support to the elected (Turkish) government,” he added. “Everything must be done to protect human lives.” […]
Meanwhile, the German foreign ministry urged its citizens in Turkey to exercise “the greatest caution” and avoid crowds and public places. …
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‘Democratic order must be respected’ in Turkey: Germany, now send more Muslims
Islam is never “democratic”.
so will Germany say the same thing about Trump when he wins in Nov ???
“Support the elected government etc “???
Germany, send those Muslims back. Turkey can take them.
Exactly
Send Merkel!
Germany, the other Turkey.
Its the molsems using your democratic order that have put themselves in positions of power and landed us right where we are.
This coming from a country that arrests people for making jokes about Erdogan.
Just as in Egypt, backing the Islamist not the secular military that was acting to defend it’s republic.
"Cheer up Angie"
How can we be sure the US wasn't in some way mischief-making? Everywhere else, that was the case.
Remember that the Ayatollah Khomeini was in exile in France when the Shah was deposed.
But that being said, I still say it was an Erdogan “Reichstag Fire.”
Turkey will not become an Islamic hell hole with advanced arms. The coup has been put down and most of it’s leaders arrested.
The leaders of the coup were true patriots
The elevation of Recep Tayyip Erdogan to the post of Present of Turkey was at least as “democratic” as the installation of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of Germany in 1933. What was done after assuming office has been anything but democratic, involving repressions of ethnic minorities, confrontations with foreign powers over relatively minor disputes, aiding and assisting in the hustling of floods of refugees as an offensive move against those nations with which there are some disagreements, and demands that certain conditions be met without any concessions on the part of the government of which he is the titular head.
Between Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Bashar al-Asssad, Erdogan is much the worse despot.
Bull.
That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government,
There is no special magic that makes an elected government incapable of becoming tyrannical.
For the "just wait until the next election" nitwits, by the time the next election arrives they can have changed things so there is no way of voting them out of power.
There are elections all over the place. Perhaps 50% of them result in electing a government who has any interest in preserving "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" for the governed. And only governments who are in pursuit of those ends have any validity.
Elected or otherwise.
And this "Coup" was Erdogan's "Reichstag Fire."
However, the reality is much murkier than that - it isn't secularist vs. Islamist so much as a power struggle among two factions, neither of which is especially secular or anti-Islamist.
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