Turkey

[deacvision7]

It's a sticky situation and neither policy should be used 100% of the time.

 

[TR1982]

Erdogan now live on TV. Saying that the coup attempt is a gift from God because it gives him the opportunity to "cleanse" the army.

 

[WFFaithful]

He picked democracy. Isn't that what America is supposed to publicly support?

See: Hamas

 

[deacvision7]

its going to get ugly quick in Turkey

 

[TR1982]

Erdogan now claiming that coup plotters are taking orders from people living in Pennsylvania.

 

[RJKarl]

If you are going overthrow the king, you have to kill the king.

 

[ImTheCaptain]

Erdogan now claiming that coup plotters are taking orders from people living in Pennsylvania.

*cough*

 

[bym051d]

I assumed he means Pennsylvania Avenue, but that seems odd since we're stating support.

 

[TR1982]

I assumed he means Pennsylvania Avenue, but that seems odd since we're stating support.

I think he is referring to Turkish exiles.

 

[ThinkingWithMyDeac]

Step 1 in a coup is kill the current leader, so that was a major fail.

 

[deactherunner]

Erdogan now claiming that coup plotters are taking orders from people living in Pennsylvania.

The place is 3 miles from the house I grew up in and does interfaith outreach in the area.

 

[BobStackFan4Life]

See: Hamas

See Ayatollah Khomeini, see Hitler, etc. And the US will support coup leaders when it's in our interests. See Pinochet, see the military men who took control in Egypt after Morsi was ousted, etc. These people in Turkey are not out on the street for democracy, they're out there for Islam.

 

[ImTheCaptain]

Step 1 in a coup is kill the current leader, so that was a major fail.

Step 2? You guessed it:

 

[BobStackFan4Life]

Erdogan doesn't talk about the number of schools or hospitals he's built- he talks about the hundreds of mosques he's built. It has to be a nightmare to be an educated person in Turkey and watch whst is happening- the rise of the Islamists, the shutting down and mass censorship of the press, his family profiting off the oil trade with ISIS, the construction of a 1,000 room palace for Erdogan, etc. And the uneducated religious people still worship him through it all. It's Idiocracy come to life.

 

[deactherunner]

The place is 3 miles from the house I grew up in and does interfaith outreach in the area.

http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-turkey-gulen-20140120-story.html

Erdogan could be lying, of course-him and Gulen have been at it for a while.

 

[BobStackFan4Life]

http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-turkey-gulen-20140120-story.html

Erdogan could be lying, of course-him and Gulen have been at it for a while.

Definitely lying. He's his go to villain.

 

[deacvision7]

Erdogan doesn't talk about the number of schools or hospitals he's built- he talks about the hundreds of mosques he's built. It has to be a nightmare to be an educated person in Turkey and watch whst is happening- the rise of the Islamists, the shutting down and mass censorship of the press, his family profiting off the oil trade with ISIS, the construction of a 1,000 room palace for Erdogan, etc. And the uneducated religious people still worship him through it all. It's Idiocracy come to life.

So is the Trump campaign that you (at least tacitly) support.

 

[PhDeac]

Erdogan doesn't talk about the number of schools or hospitals he's built- he talks about the hundreds of mosques he's built. It has to be a nightmare to be an educated person in Turkey and watch whst is happening- the rise of the Islamists, the shutting down and mass censorship of the press, his family profiting off the oil trade with ISIS, the construction of a 1,000 room palace for Erdogan, etc. And the uneducated religious people still worship him through it all. It's Idiocracy come to life.

This is a strange post coming from a Trump supporter.

 

[deacvision7]

I win.

 

[deacvision7]

Step 1 in a coup is kill the current leader, so that was a major fail.

yep. they clearly never played Junta as kids