Posted on 11/29/2016 5:52:15 AM PST by jcon40
Hundreds of Turkish military personnel working for NATO have been accused by their government of trying to overthrow Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in July. Since that failed military coup attempt, in which 260 people were killed, high-ranking officers at NATO installations across Europe and the U.S. have been summarily fired or had their foreign assignments curtailed.
In Brussels, several Turkish officers, who until recently had been assigned to NATO, spoke with NPR and requested anonymity out of fear of retaliation. They describe a tense situation in which they and their colleagues tried to continue doing their jobs at NATO headquarters, all the while fearing the next publication of the Turkish government's ever-growing lists of supposed coup sympathizers.
Some 110,000 government bureaucrats, teachers, journalists, soldiers and others have been detained, fired or suspended from their jobs in Turkey on suspicion of aiding or sympathizing with the coup attempt.
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Nice relaxed pic of The Sec Gen of NATO (see his hands) with Erdogen in Istanbul Monday..
What failed coup attempt? This was Erdogan purging his cabinet.
Whoops! Ghetto Image.
A failed mutiny means only one thing. They failed; they’ll pay.
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