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A military coup attempt is unfolding in Turkey, with both airports closed and significant military presence reported. President Erdoğan has called on citizens to gather in protest against the coup, while national television broadcasts the declaration of the coup. Initial reports indicate that the coup may be failing, as crowds have rallied in support of Erdoğan, who has labeled the uprising an "act of treason." There are concerns about potential civil unrest and casualties, with reports of gunfire and explosions in various locations. The situation remains fluid, with ongoing developments and uncertainty about the future political landscape in Turkey.
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Edit: Curfew has been declared officially.
National television channels are showing the coup declaration at the moment.
Military has taken over the country. (Or it seems so.)
People are panicking in my neighbourhood.
 
Well, I'm a big fan of Mustafa Kemal and with respect to him, it hasn't to be bad news.
 
fresh_42 said:
Well, I'm a big fan of Mustafa Kemal and with respect to him, it hasn't to be bad news.

It's not simple as that.
 
Turks aren't barbarians and Turkey isn't an african third world dictatorship. I'm confident. I even am with Erdogan hoping he won't ruin the entire system although he obviously tries to.
 
If and this is a big IF the coup results in a secular military government instead of the current Islamic Republic that traded with ISIS for oil, murdered innocent Kurdish people with air attacks on Kurdish separatists and created a government that couldn't be called corrupt because corruption assumes some honest officials existed in the current government it might be for the best instead of a civil war.
 
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What is the situation like now, where you are, Garlic?
 
StevieTNZ said:
What is the situation like now, where you are, Garlic?

President Erdoğan asked everyone to gather outside, to oppose the coup.
In important Places (Like the Taksim square, in Airports, the Bosporus Bridges) people are gathering. (Not to fight someone, but to stand against the coup.)

This is no true coup. It looks like a setup-or something like that. If it had really been a true coup, there would be soldiers in every street, and a true martial law. I see some people on my street.

I don't think there is a coup danger anymore, but we are afraid if some civil war or some conflict could take place. However this is unlikely.

I'm at home.
I have heard gunshots. But I don't think this is something serious.
Once in a while I hear ambulance and helicopter sounds.

I live in the asian side in Istanbul, but most of the action took/takes place in the european side.
 
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Uptade: Live news claim the National Assembly in Ankara (the capital city of Turkey) has been bombarded.

I just saw a live footage helicopter gunshots firing at civil people, injured people expected.

Just at the time we thought things were calming down..

Just heard a big explosion in a live broadcast.

Guess there is no sleep for me tonight.
 
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nsaspook said:
If and this is a big IF the coup results in a secular military government instead of the current Islamic Republic that traded with ISIS for oil, murdered innocent Kurdish people with air attacks on Kurdish separatists and created a government that couldn't be called corrupt because corruption assumes some honest officials existed in the current government it might be for the best instead of a civil war.

Honestly, if there's one thing we should learn from the whole mess that's the middle east, it's that militaries undermining democracy/elections in the name of secularism just doesn't work. And that comes from someone who hates nothing more than political Islam.
 
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HossamCFD said:
Honestly, if there's one thing we should learn from the whole mess that's the middle east, it's that militaries undermining democracy/elections in the name of secularism just doesn't work. And that comes from someone who hates nothing more than political Islam.
Seems it worked in Egypt and in Turkey there is (according to CNN) even a constitutional obligation for the military to guaranty secularism!
However, these guys were apparently dabblers which makes the situation unpredictable. They surely face death penalty or a life sentence so they have nothing to lose. If Erdogan were a true statesman he would be graceful and correcting his islamic policy. But I bet he isn't and Turkey will drive even more into a russian kind of "democracy" with an insane religious touch.
 
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It better be an attempt by a very desperate and rather inept group of people. The alternative explanation is waayy scarier.
 
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fresh_42 said:
Seems it worked in Egypt

Not sure what's your definition of 'working'. If it includes one of the biggest civilian massacres in Egyptian modern history, more than 40,000 imprisoned, hundreds of forced disappearances, protests outlawed, and an entire youth generation that completely lost hope in their country and scared to object, then you're probably right.
 
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HossamCFD said:
Not sure what's your definition of 'working'. If it includes one of the biggest civilian massacres in Egyptian modern history, more than 40,000 imprisoned, hundreds of forced disappearances, protests outlawed, and an entire youth generation that completely lost hope in their country and scared to object, then you're probably right.
Sure it is so bad? I mean Nursi did some questionable imprisonments, too.
 
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A bunch of soldiers invaded the CNN Turkey news studio.

There are claims of explosions and such. Sonic booms from low attitute flying jets are powerful enough to break houses windows.

There are multiple claims of casualities. Just saw a video showing lots of corpses lying on the streets.
 
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Reuters Mon May 23 2016 said:
MASTER MANEUVERER

Erdogan has made clear he wants to seek legitimacy for the presidential system, which will require constitutional change, via a referendum. To do that, he will need the support of at least 330 members of the 550-strong parliament, and unwavering backing from the AKP grass roots on the campaign trail.

Outgoing Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu was seen as too lackluster a supporter of Erdogan's ambitions. By replacing him, Erdogan aims to unify the AKP just as the nationalist opposition is embroiled in a damaging leadership row and the pro-Kurdish opposition faces the risk of its members being prosecuted after their parliamentary immunity was removed last week.

"Now the road to changing the constitution to include a presidential system is completely open," a second senior AKP official told Reuters.

Popular support for such constitutional change is unclear, with a recent IPSOS poll putting it at just 36 percent. The ORC research firm was meanwhile cited in the pro-government Daily Sabah newspaper as putting it at 58 percent.
(emphasis mine)
http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN0YE1M3
 
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fresh_42 said:
Sure it is so bad?

Yes, I'm sure it is that bad.

fresh_42 said:
I mean Nursi did some questionable imprisonments, too.

I lived under both Morsi and Sisi. Oppression in both cases isn't even comparable. We could and did protest every single thing that Morsi did. It was expected, almost mandatory for every channel and news outlets to criticize him. Heck, I sat through many hours of air time spent on making fun of his English accent and even physical appearance. This isn't because he was benevolent. He wasn't. But he was a joke of a ruler, and he didn't control anything. Had we had a second election it was very likely his party would have lost miserably, and it could've been the end of political Islam in the birthplace of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Under Sisi, on the other hand, no one is allowed to object to anything. All prominent political figures and activists, who were very active under Morsi such as Wael Ghoneim, Bassem Youssef, etc. , had to flee the country. I know teenagers in prison for holding a sign saying 'No to torture'. There have been people arrested for objecting to the government decision to secede two islands to Saudi Arabia.

So yes, I know it is that bad.

I apologise to everyone for derailing the topic. This is about Turkey. I will stop discussing Egypt from now on.
 
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@agirecudi said:
Erdogan says this attempt is a gift from God... Because it gives him opportunity to cleanse the Army. He says that live.
 
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This feeble coup attempt will likely feed anti-western and anti-american paranoia in Turkey. Erdogan appears as a defender of democracy. Allegations that he does not have the credentials to qualify for presidency have already disappeared from the media, I am sure.
 
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EnumaElish said:
Erdogan appears as a defender of democracy.

Democracy is like a train. We shall get out when we arrive at the station we want.

His own words.

The fact is that he is one of the strongest forces for fundamentalist religious authoritarianism in the western world right now.
 
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http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/europe/82168804/turkish-military-in-attempted-coup-prime-minister-says

The attempted Turkish military coup appeared to crumble in the early hours of Saturday after crowds answered President Tayyip Erdogan's call to take to the streets to support him.

Erdogan, who had been holidaying on the coast when the coup was launched, flew into Istanbul before dawn on Saturday and was shown on TV appearing among a crowd of supporters outside the airport, which the coup plotters had failed to secure.

The uprising was an "act of treason", and those responsible would pay a heavy price, he later told reporters at a hastily arranged news conference. Arrests of officers were under way, and it would go higher up the ranks, culminating in the cleansing of the military.

So the coup is reported to have failed.
 
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A great thing about conspiracy theories is that one can always go farther. In this case, I would not stop at Erdogan planting a coup against himself to boost his political standing. Parenthetically, he did not prove to be a Yeltsin. He was nowhere to be seen, least of all in front of a tank, blocking its advance. However he was no mouse on social media, he roared when he invited the public to take on the tanks and the occasional gunship. End parenthese. I would go as far as to theorize that as in any dirty war, many a war crimes may have been committed during Turkey's bloody fight against the Kurdish separatist PKK, waiting for their day in Lahey (The Hague). When the civilian government may have as much as breached the subject with the soldiers, implying that they may have to choose between indicting a few of their own or feeding them to the International War Tribunal when the day arrives, the soldiers might have "taken it the wrong way." Regardless of who its ultimate mastermind is, the failed coup attempt may have presented the civilian government a pretext to liquidate the potentially criminal liabilities in the army as coup traitors, without ever muttering the words war crimes.

Of course I could go even farther :)
 
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The consensus among the many different news casts I've watched on this (BBS, Al Jazireea, CNN, etc) is that he will not even begin to stop with further purges of the army but will use this as an excuse to increase his crushing of all dissent of any form across the entire country.
 
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EnumaElish said:
A great thing about conspiracy theories is that one can always go farther. In this case, I would not stop at Erdogan planting a coup against himself to boost his political standing. Parenthetically, he did not prove to be a Yeltsin. He was nowhere to be seen, least of all in front of a tank, blocking its advance. However he was no mouse on social media, he roared when he invited the public to take on the tanks and the occasional gunship. End parenthese. I would go as far as to theorize that as in any dirty war, many a war crimes may have been committed during Turkey's bloody fight against the Kurdish separatist PKK, waiting for their day in Lahey. When the civilian government may have as much as breached the subject with the soldiers, implying that they may have to choose between indicting a few of their own or feeding them to the International War Tribunal when the day arrives, the soldiers might have "taken it the wrong way." Regardless of who its ultimate mastermind is, the failed coup attempt may have presented the civilian government to liquidate the potentially criminal liabilities in the army as coup traitors, without ever muttering the words war crimes.

Of course I could go even farther :)
I was thinking the same thing, but of course there always was/is the chance of such a move backfiring right in your face.
I wouldn't call it a conspiracy theory at all, just politics run amok.
 
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Does anybody know much about this Pennsylvania fellow Fethullah Gulen that Erdogan wants extradited ?
I stumbled across his name about six months ago, decided he's up to something but i couldn't figure what.
He has a string of islamic schools across US and appears to have some influence
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wor...-coup-cleric-living-poconos-article-1.2713600
aily via Cihan News Agency/Reuters) http://www.nydailynews.com/authors?author=Christopher-Brennan
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Updated: Saturday, July 16, 2016, 1:08 PM

The attempted coup in Turkey will have worldwide consequences, though some of the strongest reverberations may be felt in an unlikely place — the Poconos.

Turkey’s Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag told local media that those behind the military uprising were linked to exiled imam Fethullah Gulen, who lives in eastern Pennsylvania.

Gulen, a 75-year-old who is known for supporting a moderate version of Islam, left his homeland in 1999 but still continues to influence developments from thousands of miles away.

...
He had been allied with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who urged his supporters to protest out into the streets during the coup after soldiers took over TV stations and government buildings.

Messi not in Turkey at time of military coup

The leader said that those responsible would be punished for their “treachery,” and said during a Facetime interview that his country “will not be run from a house in Pennsylvania.”

Pres Erdogan: “Turkey will not be run from a House in Pennsylvania. Turkey is not a country that can be bought or sold cheaply.”#failedcoup

— TRT World (@trtworld) July 15, 2016
His bizarre reference to the U.S. comes after Erdogan and his fellow Islamist have had a massive falling out since 2013, when police and prosecutors thought to be connected to Gulen’s movement opened a corruption probe against members of the president’s Justice and Development Party.

Earlier this year the Turkish government declared that followers of the cleric’s Hizmet movement were terrorists seeking to overthrow the government and has unsuccessfully sought his extradition.

Just a family squabble or have we been meddling ?

During a 2014 visit with President Obama, Erdoğan, who served as prime minister prior to his presidential term, reportedly asked Obama for Gulen’s extradition. The Turkish government has also retained the law firm Amsterdam & Partners in an effort to undermine Gulen and Gulenists in the courts as well as the media.

The connections between the Gulen movement and Clinton are not the first to be revealed. They also add to questions about what it is the Gulenists want from Clinton and whether the Democrat has rewarded their financial support with favors.

Last year The Daily Caller reported that numerous Gulen followers have donated to Clinton’s various political campaigns and to her family charity. One Gulen movement leader, Recep Ozkan, donated between $500,000 and $1 million to the Clinton Foundation.
http://dailycaller.com/2016/07/13/new-ties-emerge-between-clinton-and-mysterious-islamic-cleric/
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That guy quickly said he had nothing to do with the coup when it first hit the news. He could be lying but I think it's WAY more likely that Erdogan is just flailing out for external scapegoats as was completely expected.
 
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phinds said:
That guy quickly said he had nothing to do with the coup when it first hit the news. He could be lying but I think it's WAY more likely that Erdogan is just flailing out for external scapegoats as was completely expected.
more of a family feud, then..
"Round up the usual suspects..." ?
 
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phinds said:
That guy quickly said he had nothing to do with the coup when it first hit the news. He could be lying but I think it's WAY more likely that Erdogan is just flailing out for external scapegoats as was completely expected.
His plan B if he cannot blame the Kurds to justify bombing them. In all minor cases its Russia or EU.
 
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http://www.theatlantic.com/educatio...ools-and-one-secretive-turkish-cleric/375923/
In Western countries such as the United States, Germany, and France, there isn’t any evidence whatsoever that the nearly 120 Gülen charter schools in America include Islamic indoctrination in their curriculum. The schools are so secular that singling out the Gülen schools as particularly nefarious, simply for being run predominantly by Muslims, smacks of xenophobia.
he seems well intentioned
to the point i wonder why anybody would be out to get him

yet
http://www.dailysabah.com/politics/2014/09/24/red-notice-likely-to-be-issued-against-fethullah-gulen

The Gülen Movement, led by Fethullah Gülen, has over 140 private schools and charity organizations around the world including the U.S., Europe, Asia and Africa. It has been accused of infiltrating state institutions to gain control of state mechanisms, illegal wiretapping, forgery of official documents and spying. During the NATO summit earlier this month, Erdoğan requested that Obama deport Gülen or send him back to Turkey.

Erdoğan reportedly also complained about the issue to Obama and said he had not yet received a response as he expected.

"Turkey makes things easier for America over the matter of extraditing criminals. The U.S. does not make it as easy for Turkey though," Erdoğan said.

i remember being curious a while back "just who is this guy, "
so was surprised to find him in the news again .

that's all.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/16/middleeast/fethullah-gulen-profile/index.html
(CNN)Was a plan to overthrow Turkey's government really hatched behind a gated compound in a small, leafy Pennsylvania town, or is that merely a smoke screen?

In the throes of a military coup attempt, Turkey's embattled president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, pointed the finger of blame squarely at his bitter rival: Fethullah Gulen.
At the center of this rivalry, a fundamental division in Turkish society between secularists -- some within the country's top military brass -- and Islamists, including Erdogan's AKP party.
It's this division that's destabilizing one of America's most important allies in the Middle East.
And at the center of all this is Gulen, a reclusive cleric who leads a popular movement called Hizmet.
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Those arrested for the coup so far include Turkish Gen. Adem Huduti, previously celebrated for saving the town of Cizre from the Kurdish-separatist PKK, while at the same time accused for alleged war crimes in Cizre. By indicting him and other liabilities for treason (attempted coup), the civilian authority may be hoping to save themselves (the entire chain of command up to the president) from future accusations of war crimes, without ever having to pronounce the words "war crimes."
 
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jim hardy said:
he seems well intentioned
to the point i wonder why anybody would be out to get him
His views on how a state has to be organized heavily contradict all of our western free democratic orders, starting at the point where the sovereign is defined! You don't want a person like him influence the constitution. (My source (German version of the NSA) isn't available in English, however, trustworthy.)
 
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Being without TV, I've been monitoring Twitter for my news.
I just ran across an interesting article.
It seems military coups are allowed under the Turkish constitution.

Under the Turkish Constitution, the army is obliged to step in when the democratically-elected government behaves undemocratically
...
So why did Erdogan not step down and cede to the military last night as required under the Turkish constitution? The problem was within the military itself. The proper protocol under the Constitution is for the military’s high command to formally communicate with the president, requesting his resignation. Then, if he does not comply, the army steps in forcibly.

The military must act as a whole via the highest command. But yesterday’s coup was preceded by internal coup within the military itself, with commanding officers not in favour of the coup taken hostage by those who were, who then moved on with their plans. Far from being in the wrong, the military officers who planned the coup were in the right under the Constitution, except for the fact that they could not secure the support of the highest command.
...

At first I thought it might be some quack site, as this whole thing is too hard to believe.
But it appears to be legitimate.

The author of the article, Daphne Caruana Galizia, is an independent journalist in Malta.

Trying to find out if the story was legitimate, I followed the last link in wiki's article on the Turkish Constitution.

Interesting history.

Turkey Between the Ottoman Empire and the European Union: Shifting Political Authority Through the Constitutional Reform
2016
Fordham International Law Journal

... the
military, in accordance with its constitutional powers, has
intervened in Turkish politics three times in the past five
decades to restore the founding principles of Kemalism.
...

As far as I can tell, the military and judiciary are tasked with keeping the nation secular.
Which may explain why nearly 3000 of the judiciary were fired today.
 
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Till 1980, there had been a military coup (a true military coup, not like this half baked coup) every decade (totally three times, or something like that). When the government became corrupted and they started to mix the religion with the state, he military had to intervene with the government and stop them.
A few years ago, Akp (Erdoğan's party) changed the laws about this, so that military diddn't have the right to do a coup.

@OmCheeto like you said, the judicary and the military used to be the defenders of secularity, but they aren't anymore, as Akp fired the original judicary personnel and replaced them with their own followers. Now they are firing the military personnel, who oppose their party.

Note: Please excuse me, that my politics vocabulary aren't so good, and my politics knowledge isn't comprehensive (as I am not interested in history and politics like I am in science).
 
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OmCheeto said:
As far as I can tell, the military and judiciary are tasked with keeping the nation secular.
Thanks OM,
Today I Learned
Kemalism (Turkish: Kemalizm), also known as Atatürkism (Turkish: Atatürkçülük, Atatürkçü düşünce), or the Six Arrows (Turkish: Altı ok), is the founding ideology of the Republic of Turkey.[1] Kemalism, as it was implemented by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, was defined by sweeping political, social, cultural and religious reforms designed to separate the new Turkish state from its Ottoman predecessor and embrace a Westernized way of living,[2] including the establishment of democracy, secularism, state support of the sciences and free education, many of which were first introduced to Turkey during Atatürk's presidency in his reforms.[3]
fresh_42 said:
You don't want a person like him influence the constitution.

carnegieendowment.org/2013/10/20/between-secular-education-and-islamic-philosophy-approach-and-achievements-of-fethullah-g%C3%BClen-s-followers-in-azerbaijan/
One of these communities, established by Sait Nursi and structured progressively into a larger movement, whose disciples are named after their master, the so-called nurcu, later fragmented into various factions. One of the most important of these factions is the group of Fethullah Gülen, also called Gülenists or fethullahci after their charismatic leader. Indeed, by the end of the 1980s, some of Nursi’s disciples began to follow the advice and encouragements of Fethullah Gülen and were soon ready to cross borders to export their brand of philosophy to the Muslim states of the former Soviet Union. They counted on their own special triptych of strong points: education, media and trade. Their pioneering approach and proven successes paved the way for an alignment with official policy during this tumultuous period. The fethullahci, or disciples of Fethullah Gülen as they prefer to be designated, were so fast and reactive that they were the first to arrive in Central Asia and the Caucasus. Supported by a large grassroots movement in Turkey, they played a major role in promoting Turkish influence in these former Soviet states, thereby gaining strength and international visibility.
Hmmmmm... sounds like somebody our State department might find useful
 
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The CIA must have studied it whole when they kicked off the "jihadi resistance" against the soviets - the fruits of which include the Taliban, al-Qaida, and ISIS.
 
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HossamCFD said:
I lived under both Morsi and Sisi. Oppression in both cases isn't even comparable.
Neither is the context comparable. Morsi was only there for only 13 months, slowly moving toward tyranny with the like of the November '12 declaration, immunizing himself to legal challenge, and granting himself any authority he deemed necessary. His purge of the army was also slow. By contrast, Sisi represents control by the Egyptian military, which has been the case for generations.
 
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I'm not sure if this is weird or not.
WikiLeaks suffers ‘sustained attack’ after announcing megaleak of Turkey govt docs
Published time: 19 Jul, 2016 02:21

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.

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.
By "attack", I'm guessing it was a "DDoS" attack, which coincidentally:

RT targeted by massive DDoS attack during attempted Turkey coup
Published time: 16 Jul, 2016 19:00

A massive DDoS attack was staged on the servers of the Internet service provider that provides web streaming for the RT TV channel during the coverage of Friday's attempted coup in Turkey, briefly taking the stream offline.
The channel was able to resume streaming, but the servers were attacked again after some time.

More news via Twitter:

Al Jazeera News Verified account ‏@AJENews 18 July, 2016
#Turkey:
Almost 8,000 police suspended
30 governors, 50+ civil servants fired
EU official "highly concerned"​

Michael Horowitz ‏@michaelh992 18 July, 2016
#Breaking
8,777 employees of the Interior Ministry sacked following the coup, including 30 governors​
#Turkey​
 
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Do we still have nukes in Turkey ?
 
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jim hardy said:
Do we still have nukes in Turkey ?
The last I heard, yes.

(google google google)

Oh, my, god.

Did you really have to ask that question?

THE H-BOMBS IN TURKEY
By Eric Schlosser
, JULY 17, 2016
...
The Incirlik Airbase, in southeast Turkey, houses nato’s largest nuclear-weapons storage facility. On Saturday morning, the American Embassy in Ankara issued an “Emergency Message for U.S. Citizens,” warning that power had been cut to Incirlik and that “local authorities are denying movements on to and off of” the base. Incirlik was forced to rely on backup generators; U.S. Air Force planes stationed there were prohibited from taking off or landing; and the security-threat level was raised to fpcon Delta, the highest state of alert, declared when a terrorist attack has occurred or may be imminent.
...
 
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Well, it seems the Pentagon seems calm about the situation:

Pentagon press secretary comments on situations in Turkey
By Peter Cook, Pentagon Press Secretary / Published July 17, 2016

"After close coordination with our Turkish allies, they have reopened their airspace to military aircraft. As a result, counter-ISIL coalition air operations at all air bases in Turkey have resumed. U.S. facilities at Incirlik are still operating on internal power sources, but we hope to restore commercial power soon. Base operations have not been affected."
 
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jim hardy said:
Do we still have nukes in Turkey ?

The exact number of nuclear weapons
seems classified, but very likely more than 25 of them in the İncirlik American Air Base.

Other than that, we diddn't have any nuclear weapon projects or uranium enrichment projects, otherwise you would have heard it, too. Turkey probably posesses none.

The turkish government thinks that, during the coup
attempt, some jets took off from the base to
aid help to the coup attempters. Thats why they took the electricity off and blocked the entrances.
 
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i hope we've already quietly flown them out

http://uatoday.tv/politics/turkey-t...ties-over-alleged-coup-mastermind-699011.html
Yıldırım has previously stated US's "standing behind this man [Gülen]" would be a "hostile act against Turkey."

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has earlier accused US-based Fethullah Gülen in orchestrating the coup. In his statement he claimed the instruction for the mutiny had been sent from Pennsylvania. Kerry denied the allegations over US's involvement in the coup, saying they were "utterly false and harmful to bilateral relations."

In a July 16 statement, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called on his US counterpart Barack Obama to hand over US-based Gülen. "If we are strategic and model partners, please meet this demand of your partner," he said.
 

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