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BREAKING NEWS: Reports of a nationwide military martial law declared by Turkish Army.
Alert One Breaking News ^ | 07/15/16 | BN

Posted on 07/15/2016 12:58:47 PM PDT by winoneforthegipper

Alert One ‏@2008alerts

BREAKING NEWS: Reports of a nationwide military martial law declared by Turkish Army. 12:52 PM - 15 Jul 2016

(Excerpt) Read more at twitter.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: coup; erdogen; isis; islam; martiallaw; military; muslimworld; turkey; turkeycoup; turkish
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To: little jeremiah
Looks like they are arresting military leaders not involved in coup as a show. See if I can post an image of one of those dastardly coup military leaders getting arrested.


1,181 posted on 07/15/2016 10:28:03 PM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: little jeremiah
No flights coming in or out of Ankara airport.
1,182 posted on 07/15/2016 10:28:23 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: justa-hairyape
The issue was that he could not land his plane for awhile. In Europe.

He never left Turkish air space. There was, however, some delay before he landed at Ataturk.

Erdogan's flight path

Maybe he needed to wait for his supporters to get the tanks off the runway.

1,183 posted on 07/15/2016 10:29:00 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: justa-hairyape

Hmmm....wonder how other braches of the military are going to respond. Just wait for Edgrons goons to come arrest them?


1,184 posted on 07/15/2016 10:29:42 PM PDT by stuck_in_new_orleans
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To: cynwoody

That was all kinda weird. There had to be a couple hundred air strips just in Turkey.


1,185 posted on 07/15/2016 10:30:58 PM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: stuck_in_new_orleans

No signs of even a struggle.


1,186 posted on 07/15/2016 10:32:07 PM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: justa-hairyape

I wonder how any news at all is getting out of Turkey. I’m sure we’re only getting a small bit of it. I’m sick at heart about this.


1,187 posted on 07/15/2016 10:36:56 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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To: justa-hairyape
That was all kinda weird. There had to be a couple hundred air strips just in Turkey.

I'm sure that was the plan while they were circling.

I mean, if his supporters can make Ataturk safe before he runs out of fuel, then that's where he goes (which is what happened). Otherwise, he lands at some friendly air field, refuels, and figures out what to do next.

The plotters' mistake was not to grab him at his vacation spot (Marmaris, on the Mediterranean). Erdogan should have been the first outsider to learn of the coup, at gun point or from virgin #1.

1,188 posted on 07/15/2016 10:37:56 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: justa-hairyape

Conflict News (@Conflicts)

7/16/16, 1:19 AM

UPDATE: Fighting still being reported at military HQ in #Ankara #Turkey -


1,189 posted on 07/15/2016 10:39:02 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: All

Government saying rebels have no more fighter jets but still some helicopters


1,190 posted on 07/15/2016 10:39:07 PM PDT by janetjanet998
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To: MinorityRepublican

sounds like the last holdout for the rebels?


1,191 posted on 07/15/2016 10:40:06 PM PDT by janetjanet998
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To: cynwoody

government forces currently control Turkey’s military headquarters, a senior Turkish official told Reuters, adding that small groups of soldiers backing the coup attempt are still resisting and control several military helicopters.


1,192 posted on 07/15/2016 10:40:56 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: janetjanet998

Yep. Now it’s just mopping up.


1,193 posted on 07/15/2016 10:41:39 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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Conflict News ‏@Conflicts 5m5 minutes ago

BREAKING: Army chief General Hulusi Akar rescued after being held hostage by coup soldiers, taken to secure location - @BNONews

DAILY SABAH ‏@DailySabah 7m7 minutes ago

BREAKING — Chief of Staff Hulusi Akar rescued to safety from pro-coup soldiers at Akıncılar Air Base in Ankara

ilhan tanir ‏@WashingtonPoint 7m7 minutes ago

ilhan tanir Retweeted S. Rifai

#Unconfirmed but widely reported: Colonel Kose was the leader of the coup. Conflict News ‏@Conflicts 3m3 minutes ago

BREAKING: Turkish Presidency Secretary-General Fahri Kasirga rescued after being kidnapped by coup soldiers - @BNONews

1,194 posted on 07/15/2016 10:42:17 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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To: little jeremiah

Three reasons why ‘the coup appears to have failed’

Gulnur Aybet, head of the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the Centre for Security Studies at Bahcesehir University in Istanbul, tells the BBC World Service that the reasons for the coup’s apparent failure are:

A relatively low number of solders took part

Senior commanders were outspoken in condemning it

People came out onto the streets to oppose it


1,195 posted on 07/15/2016 10:45:39 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: cynwoody

Read a report that his vacation room or suite was bombed or they attempted a bombing, but he was not there.


1,196 posted on 07/15/2016 10:48:09 PM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: stuck_in_new_orleans

Erdogan has had twelve years in power to prepare for a possible coup, after decades of the Turkish military repeatedly conducting coups and suppressing islamists.

He earlier pre-emptively purged the military leadership with a a fraud (memos dated years before the version of windows used to create them) in the so-called sledgehammer case.

You seem convinced it would be unthinkable for him to establish his own equivalent to the Fedayeen Saddam, the Iranian basijis? In fact he has been extraordinarily active in cultivating a variety of paramilitaries (see Syria).

I guess that you didn’t watch the early crowds chanting in Arabic (Y’allah, Bismullah, Allahu Akhbar), while gesturing with the Shahada symbol.


1,197 posted on 07/15/2016 10:49:29 PM PDT by BeauBo
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To: MinorityRepublican

Now Erdogan is going to go full Islamcrazy. And many people will die and suffer.


1,198 posted on 07/15/2016 10:49:36 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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To: BeauBo

Thanks for the background info.


1,199 posted on 07/15/2016 10:50:16 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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To: cynwoody

Erdogan was staying at a hotel. His room was bombed. He wasn’t in it.


1,200 posted on 07/15/2016 10:50:30 PM PDT by Ray76 (The evil effect of Obergefell is to deprive the people of rule of law & subject us to tyranny!)
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