Kicking off in Turkey - possible Military coup

[BloodOmen]

Turkish military blocks Istanbul bridges - BBC News

 

[Wij]

WTF?!? Going to look for further info... :/

 

[Embattle]

Certainly interesting.

 

[dysfunction]

Crazy stuff!

 

[Bodhi]

Ah a military coup in Turkey. Just what we need!

 

[Shagrat]

oh dear, that could makes things in the Middle East even more of a clusterfuck

 

[BloodOmen]

Mahir Zeynalov (@MahirZeynalov) on Twitter

 

[caLLous]

 

[Job]

As in really a military coup...this could be so good or so bad.

 

[Embattle]

I'm sitting here and thinking it is just stunning what has happened recently.

 

[Raven]

Turkey. bestest buds! Thumbs up EU!

 

[Job]

And Farage kicked the lot off.

 

[BloodOmen]

Turkey army group announces takeover on TV - BBC News

"An army group in Turkey says it has taken over the country, with soldiers at strategic points in Istanbul and jets flying low in the capital, Ankara.

A statement read on TV said a "peace council" now ran the country and there was a curfew and martial law. There would also be new constitution."

 

[Raven]

Actually, this is pretty handy. Give it a week and the arse will have well and truly fallen out of the Euro.

 

[BloodOmen]

"President Erdogan calls on everyone to take to streets. "Let them come with their tanks."

Suddenly he's a big fan of demonstrations.

 

[Raven]

...and war!

 

[Raven]

I will say it again. Suddenly my food and supplies stash (currently around 2 months worth of food, a weeks worth of water) isn't looking so crazy after all!

 

[Raven]

Drumf, finger on the pulse as always


View: https://twitter.com/realDenaldTrump/status/754063737473101824

 

[Raven]

Meh, "Denald"

But I laughed anyway.

 

[DaGaffer]

Oddly enough, coups in Turkey aren't necessarily a bad thing; the army has always been the protector of the secular state and a curb on Islam. Here's hoping they've had enough of Erdogan for that reason.

 

[Gwadien]

Oddly enough, coups in Turkey aren't necessarily a bad thing; the army has always been the protector of the secular state and a curb on Islam. Here's hoping they've had enough of Erdogan for that reason.

On the flip side, the Kurds are building a country on their border, and are attacking Turkey regularly within their own borders, Erdogan has said that he will not tolerate a Kurdish state on his borders, but has done nothing about it.

I just hope the military coup isn't an excuse to push into the Kurdish territory.

 

[BloodOmen]

People are now being reportedly shot in the streets.

 

[Zarjazz]

Oddly enough, coups in Turkey aren't necessarily a bad thing; the army has always been the protector of the secular state and a curb on Islam. Here's hoping they've had enough of Erdogan for that reason.

I came here to post the same thing. There have been mumblings of the Army not been happy with Erdogan for a long time.

 

[Raven]

Ruthless leader keeping a lid on a bunch of nutbars.

Hmmm, where have I seen this before?

Oh but its OK, prime candidate for EU membership.

 

[SilverHood]

Be interesting to see what the NATO ramifications of this are.

 

[BloodOmen]

To be fair Turkey was never really on the cards for EU membership, it would have taken 20+ years for them to join.

 

[Raven]

To be fair Turkey was never really on the cards for EU membership, it would have taken 20+ years for them to join.

 

[fettoken]

Oddly enough, coups in Turkey aren't necessarily a bad thing; the army has always been the protector of the secular state and a curb on Islam. Here's hoping they've had enough of Erdogan for that reason.

I was thinking this as well, and of course there will be people propagating on twitter/other media that this is something that's just about to blow over, but hopefully they will remove Erdogan for good.

 

[Raven]

I think you will find that causing civil war on the borders is par for the course for the EU now. Divide and conquer. An age old strategy.

 

[BloodOmen]

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Well they weren't? they'd only met ONE of the like 35 Criteria required to join the EU.