Troubles In Turkey

[Cinaruco]

https://twitter.com/BNONews/status/754151418920075264

[Simon Tan]

I want Turkey to own the whole Erdogan period. To have him deposed is too easy. Hopefully it will poison NATO permanently.

[Corinthian]

CURSES! FOILED AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!1!!one

[crazyinsane105]

Helicopter was shot down by pro-government forces. Not a whole lot of support from the Turkish military....I'm reading reports that maybe 1,000 or so soldiers actually took part in the attempted coup. That itself is a very miniscule number with almost no chance of subduing Erdogans civilian supporters, much less the part of the military that likes him.

[Simon Tan]

Here's to a good purge of the Turkish military. The 94th or something.

[seahawk]

Now Erdogan must turn Turkey into an Islamic state to protect the people from further such attacks by traitors.

[Simon Tan]

Mutti will send more Eurogeld.

[Cinaruco]

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/obama-parties-turkey-support-erdogan-govt-074352507--politics.html

 

LUXEMBOURG (AP) -- The Obama administration would entertain an extradition request for the U.S.-based cleric that Turkey's president is blaming for a failed coup attempt, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Saturday.

Wow this went to shit...

[DKTanker]

Now Erdogan must turn Turkey into an Islamic state to protect the people from further such attacks by traitors.

Has the odor of a false flag coup...a Reichstag fire on a grander scale.

[DKTanker]

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/obama-parties-turkey-support-erdogan-govt-074352507--politics.html

 

LUXEMBOURG (AP) -- The Obama administration would entertain an extradition request for the U.S.-based cleric that Turkey's president is blaming for a failed coup attempt, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Saturday.

 

Wow this went to shit...

Of course the fact that Turkey is holding 1500 US military members hostage.....

[WRW]

All quiet on the ground

 

future will be interesting though

[swerve]

Glad to hear that you're still OK.

[crazyinsane105]

 

 

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/obama-parties-turkey-support-erdogan-govt-074352507--politics.html

 

LUXEMBOURG (AP) -- The Obama administration would entertain an extradition request for the U.S.-based cleric that Turkey's president is blaming for a failed coup attempt, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Saturday.

 

Wow this went to shit...

Of course the fact that Turkey is holding 1500 US military members hostage.....

Don't forget that the US has nuclear weapons stored on Turkish soil...

[Jeff]

 

Now Erdogan must turn Turkey into an Islamic state to protect the people from further such attacks by traitors.

Has the odor of a false flag coup...a Reichstag fire on a grander scale.

 

 

Or at least a case of never letting a crisis go to waste. He certainly seems to be running the table on his enemies list.

 

 

 

Turkish PM: Any country that stands by cleric Gulen will be at war with Turkey

 

So do we get to invoke article V if Turkey attacks us?

[rmgill]

Are there any real indications that Gulan was actually pulling any strings?

[Panzermann]

 

 

 

 

Now Erdogan must turn Turkey into an Islamic state to protect the people from further such attacks by traitors.

Has the odor of a false flag coup...a Reichstag fire on a grander scale.

Or at least a case of never letting a crisis go to waste. He certainly seems to be running the table on his enemies list.

Yup. Just took the lists from the drawer I bet:

 

Coup attempt shakes up Turkish judiciary with

big shift

 

Only hours after a coup attempt, the Supreme Council of Judges and Prosecutors (HSYK) has sustained 2,745 judges on July 16, apparently because they are suspected to be linked to the U.S.-based Fethullah Gülen, as a number of high judges have been arrested.

The government has announced that Gülenists were behind the failed coup attempt.

 

Some 542 of these judges are in administrative judgement as the remain in 2,204 of them are in judicial judgment.

The general assembly of the HSYK decided to end the memberships of its five judges, who now face detention warrants by the Chief Prosecutor of Justice in Ankara.

Some vacations of the judges and prosecutors have also been cut short.

Two members of the Constitutional Court, Alparslan Altan and Erdal Tercan, were detained.

A total of 48 members of the Council of State, who were sought with an arrest warrant, were detained in relation to the coup attempt.

 

Arrest warrants were revealed for 140 members of the Supreme Court of Appeals.

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/coup-attempt-shakes-up-turkish-judiciary-with-big-shift.aspx?pageID=238&nID=101692&NewsCatID=341

 

So do we get to invoke article V if Turkey attacks us?

I don't think so. Article V considers an attack on one member an attack on all. Would not make much sense in case two NATO members come into armed conflict.

[EchoFiveMike]

Don't forget that the US has nuclear weapons stored on Turkish soil...

The US will neither confirm nor deny that. The US keeping nukes in a shaky shithole like Incirlik would be massively stupid, which doesn't rule it out. Most nukes were pulled back after the CW was over. S/F.....Ken M

[Corinthian]

Glad to hear that you're still OK.

 

+1

[BansheeOne]

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/obama-parties-turkey-support-erdogan-govt-074352507--politics.html

 

LUXEMBOURG (AP) -- The Obama administration would entertain an extradition request for the U.S.-based cleric that Turkey's president is blaming for a failed coup attempt, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Saturday.

 

Wow this went to shit...

 

I read John Kerry's friendly reply of "obviously we would invite the government of Turkey, as we always do, to present us with any legitimate evidence that withstands scrutiny" as "yeah, right".

[DougRichards]

Well as Britain Brexits, Turkey shows (again) that it has no place in the EU.

 

Can the EU, which particularly represents European values of freedom of expression and freedom from a state sponsored religion of any kind, accept into the club an eastern facing state that is increasingly taking Islamic 'values' into the fold?

 

It is ironic that a 1925 vintage Turkey, under Kamal Attaurk, was more closely aligned with western values than the 2016 version, which seems to be more 1816 than 21st century.

Edited July 17, 2016 by DougRichards

[rohala]

1925 vintage Turkey was a proper single-party fascist state.

[BansheeOne]

Which incidentally was the trend of the time in Italy, Portugal, Hungary, Poland, Yugoslavia, then Germany, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, Spain ... so, full alignment with Europe!

Edited July 17, 2016 by BansheeOne

[Simon Tan]

The Continent will out.

[CT96]

 

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/obama-parties-turkey-support-erdogan-govt-074352507--politics.html

 

LUXEMBOURG (AP) -- The Obama administration would entertain an extradition request for the U.S.-based cleric that Turkey's president is blaming for a failed coup attempt, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Saturday.

 

Wow this went to shit...

 

I read John Kerry's friendly reply of "obviously we would invite the government of Turkey, as we always do, to present us with any legitimate evidence that withstands scrutiny" as "yeah, right".

 

 

I read it more as a "Pics or it didn't happen" or a "Put up or shut up"

[Ivanhoe]

All quiet on the ground

 

future will be interesting though

 

To which country will you next travel to and destabilize?

 

And for the love of God, will you please PM me your next destination so I can pull a George Soros and make a killing on currency futures?