OT: Military Coup in Turkey

[Louied]

Military says they have taken over the country. Seems the Turkish Military hasn't forgot that Ataturk made them the ultimate guardians of the Turkish State.

[raketenjagdpanzer]

Ergodan's calling shenanigans on the military; he's back in the airport in Istanbul. Seems like a dud.

Pity; while the stress and divisiveness is bad, pushing the nation back towards a secular state was an admirable goal. Ergodan's a fundamentalist, and that's a bad thing.

[Matt Wiser]

They should've read the book How to Stage a Military Coup. The plotters should've arrested Ergodan, his Prime Minister, Cabinet, and supporters in Parliament first thing. Then you put the tanks in the streets. Lesson learned: this one failed, but if there's a next time......

[Louied]

Originally Posted by Matt Wiser

They should've read the book How to Stage a Military Coup. The plotters should've arrested Ergodan, his Prime Minister, Cabinet, and supporters in Parliament first thing. Then you put the tanks in the streets. Lesson learned: this one failed, but if there's a next time......

Exactly !! Either that or otherwise 'disposed of'. You can almost put on your tinfoil hat and say this might have been set-up by Edrogan to facilitate his complete takeover. Whatever it is we may have just seen the last of Ataturk's Turkey.

[aspqrz]

Yes, Erdogan is bad news, democratically elected or not. He is turning Turkey inexorably into a one party state with himself as supreme leader ... and it is a worry that he is an islamist, though not (obviously, or not so at the moment) in to the same degree as ISIS, Al Quaeda or, heck, even the Ayatollahs in Iran.

Modernism dominates the cities (largely thanks to Ataturk), but the countryside is still backwards ... one wonders whether there will be many more, if any, democratic elections in Turkey as long as he is in power.

Not that military rule would necessarily be better ...

Soldiers, generally speaking, have a piss poor record whenever they seize control of governments.

Phil

[LBraden]

Well the Turkish military has in the past been, more effective shall we say than other military juntas, normally only holding onto power for the shortest possible time.

However, what concerns me is that today it's already come out that he had a list of 6,000 known "collaborators" with this revolt ... within 48h and he already has the list of known people, that sets of my bullshit meter more than UK election season.