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General Category => Politics & Current Affairs => Topic started by: Walt Zingmatilder on July 16, 2016, 06:23:18 PM

Title: Turkey. Coup was secular
Post by: Walt Zingmatilder on July 16, 2016, 06:23:18 PM
According to ITV coup was staged by ''secular'' forces.
Anybody know any more?
Title: Re: Turkey. Coup was secular
Post by: Bubbles on July 16, 2016, 06:44:30 PM
According to ITV coup was staged by ''secular'' forces.
Anybody know any more?

No, but I'm relieved it wasn't otherwise.

Title: Re: Turkey. Coup was secular
Post by: Bubbles on July 16, 2016, 06:56:01 PM
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An attempted military coup has apparently been defeated in Turkey, in a bid to oust the president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, accusing him of undermining the country’s secular traditions.
Erdoğan, who returned to Istanbul in the early hours of the morning from his holiday in the resort of Marmaris, said the attempted coup was “treason” undertaken by “a minority within our armed forces”.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/16/turkey-attempted-coup-what-we-know-so-far


Boris Johnsons comment on Twitter at the bottom of the article.


That President is the guy Boris Johnson won the offensive poem competition on.

http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2016/05/boris-johnson-wins-the-spectators-president-erdogan-offensive-poetry-competition/

Hey! do you think Boris Johnson could be offered a job as a producer and writer for Spitting Image once he's finished with his present role?

President Putin as " Dobby the house elf" and Hilary Clinton as the " dyed blond pouty lipped, blue hard eyed, mental nurse"

 ;D


Title: Re: Turkey. Coup was secular
Post by: Brownie on July 16, 2016, 08:01:52 PM
Hee hee yes Rose!  Do you mean "mental nurse" or "Mental Nurse"?  Don't answer that.
Title: Re: Turkey. Coup was secular
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 16, 2016, 08:07:11 PM
Yeo, it was a piece of genius to appoint a FS who writes limericks about the Turkish president shagging goats
Title: Re: Turkey. Coup was secular
Post by: JP on July 16, 2016, 09:03:57 PM
Something doesnt seem right here, it seems too half hearted, badly planned using conscripts it seemed and

Erdogan was not immediately silenced. He was able to speak via national tv and able to fly to Istanbul. Within a few hours he had pushing 3000 judges removed and arrest warrants out for hundreds more administrators and military. He has been slowly tightening his grip and while I am not one for conspiracies something smells fishy here.

Erdogan is a meglamainiac snake oil salesman who locks up journalists and bloggers and has been slowly tightening his grip on the country. This is his very own night of the long knives.
Title: Re: Turkey. Coup was secular
Post by: Hope on July 16, 2016, 10:19:37 PM
According to ITV coup was staged by ''secular'' forces.
Anybody know any more?
Apparently, the military, Vlad.
Title: Re: Turkey. Coup was secular
Post by: JP on July 19, 2016, 05:24:17 PM
Meanwhile in Turkey, the real coup is happening right now.
Title: Re: Turkey. Coup was secular
Post by: Brownie on July 19, 2016, 06:24:20 PM
Bernard Matthews is no more.
http://myturkeys.com/housingturkeys.html
Title: Re: Turkey. Coup was secular
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 19, 2016, 08:03:43 PM
Meanwhile in Turkey, the real coup is happening right now.
That is indeed a worry. Erdogan is very scary.
Title: Re: Turkey. Coup was secular
Post by: Jack Knave on July 19, 2016, 08:25:17 PM
Meanwhile in Turkey, the real coup is happening right now.
I assume that what you mean by that that the 'coup' was orchestrated. It does seem to have come at an opportune moment when Turkey has a gun at the EU and NATO's heads - immigration and Syria/ISIS.

It could mean the destabilization of Turkey as they engage full throttle against the Kurds, and ISIS up their stakes there. Immigrants could have a case for not being sent back or deported to Turkey as it starts to fall apart as the half that is being victimized there could join forces with the Kurds or something.
Title: Re: Turkey. Coup was secular
Post by: Jack Knave on July 19, 2016, 08:30:33 PM
Something doesnt seem right here, it seems too half hearted, badly planned using conscripts it seemed and

Erdogan was not immediately silenced. He was able to speak via national tv and able to fly to Istanbul. Within a few hours he had pushing 3000 judges removed and arrest warrants out for hundreds more administrators and military. He has been slowly tightening his grip and while I am not one for conspiracies something smells fishy here.

Erdogan is a meglamainiac snake oil salesman who locks up journalists and bloggers and has been slowly tightening his grip on the country. This is his very own night of the long knives.
I missed this as I just looked at the last few posts. So you too think that something smells fishy in all this.