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Turkey

"Turkey today has more reporters in prison on a per capita basis than any other country."

"Then, there was Erdogan’s arrogance. As he and his party won election after election, he dropped any pretense of governing for all Turks. “I will raise a religious generation,” he declared, turning his back on the secularism that Kemal Ataturk, the founder of the Turkish republic, imposed on the country more than 90 years ago."

"Rather than address the 1,400 percent increase in the murder rate of women, he instructed women to stay at home and have three children, and railed not only against abortions, but also C-sections, as violations of God’s will."

http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/07/15/erdogan-has-nobody-to-blame-for-the-coup-but-himself/
 
ImTheCaptain said:
Step 2? You guessed it:

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This is perhaps the most useful opinion given in this thread. But carry on in thinking you have worthwhile opinions on Turkish politics, people.
 
CNN is reporting some are saying this "coup" was actually created by Erdowan to allow him to take even more dictatorial power.
 
RJKarl said:
CNN is reporting some are saying this "coup" was actually created by Erdowan to allow him to take even more dictatorial power.
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Bit conspiracy theory for me, but the fact that he was so easily allowed to leave his vacation place and get back to Istanbul within mere hours of the event starting does make one go "Hmmmmmm".
 
My hot take is that the US kind of has to support democracy in this case, even if he has become more of a dictator. I do think we (to include Obama) would've liked to have seen him gone. The best course of action would've been a general statement like, "The President is monitoring the events in Turkey closely," for as long as that would work before a new statement was needed (which, it turns out, would've been the entire coup), and then another generic, "We hope things return to normal without bloodshed," or something of that nature. Absent that, however, you kind of have to support that asshole Erdogan, at least publicly.
 
WFFaithful said:
Does Erdogan support ISIS?
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a while ago that's what Putin claimed but recently Erdogan and Putin seem to have kissed and made up

i.e. Russian planes will be able to use Turkish bases to attack ISIS and Putin will forget about the Russian plane the Turks shot down - pragmatism
 
"Turkey has arrested 6,000 people after a failed coup, with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowing to purge state bodies of the "virus" that caused the revolt."
He's gonna be a ten times crazier Islamist going forward.
 
Turkey coup could threaten country's Nato membership, suggests John Kerry
State Department says Nato is monitoring how the Turkish government responds to the failed coup. Members of the alliance are required to 'uphold democracy, including tolerating diversity'
 
I guess Erdogan is not happy.
WikiLeaks suffers ‘sustained attack’ after announcing megaleak of Turkey govt docs

WikiLeaks reported suffering a “sustained attack” after it announced the upcoming release of hundreds of thousands of documents relating to Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) in the wake of a failed military coup.
“Our infrastructure is under sustained attack,” WikiLeaks said on Twitter. “We are unsure of the true origin of the attack. The timing suggests a Turkish state power faction or its allies.”

Despite the attack, the famous whistleblowing site promised to “prevail & publish” the first batch of documents on Tuesday. Earlier WikiLeaks announced that the release of documents, which could expose the Turkish “political power structure”, will contain 300,000 emails and 500,000 documents.

Prior to the scheduled release, WikiLeaks warned the public that the Turkish government will likely do its best to prevent the information from being released or reaching the Turkish public.

“Turks will likely be censored to prevent them reading our pending release of 100k+ docs on politics leading up to the coup,” the organization said on Twitter.

The non-profit organization also asked the public to support their endeavor for sharing the information.

“We ask that Turks are ready with censorship bypassing systems such as TorBrowser and uTorrent. And that everyone else is ready to help them bypass censorship and push our links through the censorship to come.”

Following the unsuccessful military coup attempt in which at least 208 people were killed and more than 1,400 wounded, Erdogan went on to blame former ally and now arch enemy Fethullah Gulen, for trying to overthrow him.

Turkey is also mulling the reintroduction of death penalty to punish those responsible for the armed rebellion attempt, as the government and military structures continue to be purged by the ruling elite.

RT targeted by massive DDoS attack during attempted Turkey coup
Erdogan called the failed military coup a “clear crime of treason,” in an interview with CNN. “The people now have the idea, after so many terrorist incidents, that these terrorists should be killed, that’s where they are, they don't see any other outcome to it.”

More than 7,500 suspects had been detained in connection with the coup attempt, prime Minister Binali Yildirim said on Monday. In addition, some 8,000 police officers had been removed from their posts, a senior security official told Reuters.

At the same time Turkish authorities promptly suspended some 3,000 judges and prosecutors, arresting at least 775 of them. Johannes Hahn, the EU commissioner dealing with Turkey’s EU membership bid, said the alacrity with which judges were rounded up after the coup failed indicates that the government had actually prepared a list in advance.

“It looks at least as if something has been prepared. The lists are available, which indicates it was prepared and to be used at a certain stage,” Hahn said, according to Reuters.

“I’m very concerned. It is exactly what we feared.”
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https://www.rt.com/news/351995-wikileaks-attack-turkey-documents/
 
Oh Turkey. So the options were to support an extremely poorly organized military coup that didn't even involve all the military and didn't even have the support of any prominent opposition groups or to support a "democratically elected" president who took the timing of the coup to immediately seek out political opposition and snatch them off the streets while continuing his push towards removing basic freedoms.

What an option!
 
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