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« Reply #125 on: July 15, 2016, 05:26:20 PM »
Quote from: jaichind on July 15, 2016, 05:25:27 PM
TANKS OPEN FIRE AROUND TURKISH PARLIAMENT BUILDING: REUTERS

Jesus.
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« Reply #126 on: July 15, 2016, 05:28:20 PM »
PEOPLE WOUNDED FIGHTING NEAR BOSPHORUS BRIDGE ISTANBUL: CNNTURK
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« Reply #127 on: July 15, 2016, 05:29:16 PM »
Seems like the coup is failing. Lots of people demonstrating in the streets, more numerous than armed forces can handle.
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« Reply #128 on: July 15, 2016, 05:31:43 PM »
So when can we expect to find Putin's fingerprints all over this?
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« Reply #129 on: July 15, 2016, 05:32:36 PM »
Reported fire exchange between military and police in Ankara and Istanbul.
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« Reply #130 on: July 15, 2016, 05:33:28 PM »
Quote from: a.scott on July 15, 2016, 05:31:43 PM
So when can we expect to find Putin's fingerprints all over this?
Once again, Turkey can have their coups without any foreign help.
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« Reply #131 on: July 15, 2016, 05:33:41 PM »
Turkish Interior Minister Efkan Ala says very effective units from the chief of general staff's office, the Turkish armed forces and the police are responding to the attempted coup in the country.
Ala says they are responding to "gangs who have taken cover in certain locations."
He spoke by telephone to NTV television and also encouraged Turkish citizens to "fearlessly go out and support our security forces."
He says: "We think it would be right for them to go out to the airports, to the streets, especially to the main arteries. As long as they do that this gang's attempts... they will be defeated no matter what."
He added "this is a gang that considers nothing sacred, not the people or the nation. They're taking certain actions."
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« Reply #132 on: July 15, 2016, 05:36:19 PM »
Erdogan apparently flying toward London now...
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« Reply #133 on: July 15, 2016, 05:37:17 PM »
There must be some serious level of support for the coup within the army, otherwise we should have already seen loyalist units deployed to fight the putschists, no ?
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« Reply #134 on: July 15, 2016, 05:38:04 PM »
Quote from: Watermelon sin Jamón on July 15, 2016, 05:33:28 PM
Quote from: a.scott on July 15, 2016, 05:31:43 PM
So when can we expect to find Putin's fingerprints all over this?
Once again, Turkey can have their coups without any foreign help.

OK, the 1960 coup was clearly a wholly internal affair (again, by junior officers), but the 1980 coup had CIA fingerprints all over.
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« Reply #135 on: July 15, 2016, 05:38:23 PM »
Quote from: Watermelon sin Jamón on July 15, 2016, 05:33:28 PM
Quote from: a.scott on July 15, 2016, 05:31:43 PM
So when can we expect to find Putin's fingerprints all over this?
Once again, Turkey can have their coups without any foreign help.
Coups in Turkey don't happen, generally, if the incumbent government has as much support as Erdogan has right now.
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« Reply #136 on: July 15, 2016, 05:39:05 PM »
Quote from: Watermelon sin Jamón on July 15, 2016, 05:33:28 PM
Quote from: a.scott on July 15, 2016, 05:31:43 PM
So when can we expect to find Putin's fingerprints all over this?
Once again, Turkey can have their coups without any foreign help.

^ This. I don't think this was funded by anyone.

I will say I will amend my statement and say I hope everything calms down. things are heading to a bad direction very fast on both sides. I still believe Erdogan needs to be arrested, though. He destroyed the democratic fiber of his country and allowed this type of situation to arise.
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« Reply #137 on: July 15, 2016, 05:39:52 PM »
Quote from: TimTurner on July 15, 2016, 05:38:23 PM
Quote from: Watermelon sin Jamón on July 15, 2016, 05:33:28 PM
Quote from: a.scott on July 15, 2016, 05:31:43 PM
So when can we expect to find Putin's fingerprints all over this?
Once again, Turkey can have their coups without any foreign help.
Coups in Turkey don't happen, generally, if the incumbent government has as much support as Erdogan has right now.

Haven't Menderes had a substantial support while outset? (I'm asking because I don't know).
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« Reply #138 on: July 15, 2016, 05:40:07 PM »
Turkey's Istanbul-based first army commander says the soldiers involved in an attempted coup "represent a small group" and "there is no cause for concern," according to the state-run Anadolu Agency.
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« Reply #139 on: July 15, 2016, 05:41:15 PM »
Way too much propaganda going on right now to get a clear picture.
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« Reply #140 on: July 15, 2016, 05:42:03 PM »
Quote from: Kalwejt on July 15, 2016, 05:39:52 PM
Quote from: TimTurner on July 15, 2016, 05:38:23 PM
Quote from: Watermelon sin Jamón on July 15, 2016, 05:33:28 PM
Quote from: a.scott on July 15, 2016, 05:31:43 PM
So when can we expect to find Putin's fingerprints all over this?
Once again, Turkey can have their coups without any foreign help.
Coups in Turkey don't happen, generally, if the incumbent government has as much support as Erdogan has right now.
Haven't Menderes had a substantial support while outset? (I'm asking because I don't know).
I think?... Not very knowledgeable about the attempted coup in Venezuela.
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« Reply #141 on: July 15, 2016, 05:42:27 PM »
Navy rejects the coup attempt.
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« Reply #142 on: July 15, 2016, 05:46:49 PM »
ARMY HELICOPTERS FIRED AT TURKEY INTELLIGENCE, ARMY HQS: AA
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« Reply #143 on: July 15, 2016, 05:48:30 PM »
Seems like a fizzle.
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« Reply #144 on: July 15, 2016, 05:50:02 PM »
Quote from: President Washington on July 15, 2016, 05:47:15 PM
HDP, main Kurdish political party in Turkey,
That's not really what it is. HDP is the main left-wing party in Turkey, and is derived from several groups, the largest of which was the main Kurdish political party.
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« Reply #145 on: July 15, 2016, 05:51:19 PM »
TURK SPECIAL FORCES COMMANDER ZEKAI AKSAKALLI SPEAKS ON NTV
AKSAKALLI: TURKEY COUP ATTEMPT WILL BE UNSUCCESSFUL
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« Reply #146 on: July 15, 2016, 05:53:09 PM »
Did I just watch people get mowed down on live MSNBC? I heard shots and people hit the ground!!
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« Reply #147 on: July 15, 2016, 05:53:42 PM »
« Edited: July 15, 2016, 05:59:01 PM by TimTurner »
Quote from: President Washington on July 15, 2016, 05:49:50 PM
Islamic Call to Prayer ("ezan") read out at unusual hour. Reportedly different from usual call to prayer. Note: Ezan never called at this time of night normally.
Fajr salah?
EDIT: Qiyam ul-lail.
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« Reply #148 on: July 15, 2016, 05:53:50 PM »
Istanbul (DPA) -- Mosques in Istanbul were reciting the call to prayer hours before the scheduled morning prayers.
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« Reply #149 on: July 15, 2016, 05:54:38 PM »
Coup leader arrested? https://twitter.com/amberinzaman/status/754085332333789185
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