Turkey under Martial Law
 

July is only half over, and it's easily the most brutal Sumer we've had in years.

I'm genuinely afraid of where all of this is headed.

Turn on CNN this is crazy!!!!!

Wow... scary. If we could just get some insane news from our friends in North Korea, I'd probably lose all my hair.

CNN's Turkey was just taken over by Turkish military.

And on top of that Russia is mobilizing for war, with the west being concerned:

http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2016/07...ates-US-Crimea

This **** is scary. WW3 is coming.

People thought 9/11 was the brink of WW3, it didn't happen then, it won't happen now.

The only thing that could really kickstart it is North Korea doing something really stupid and then Russia, China and all of Europe getting involved. But I doubt that.

It won't happen.

Geez. First Paris is attacked again, now this. Scary stuff. :(

From what I've seen, this is happening because the military got sick of how regressive their president had been in recent years. It's still scary, and the coup appears to have failed.

Ut was a faction within the military that attempted and ultimately failed to remove the president. Soldiers are currently being charged with treason and arrested.

Erdogan is a clown, so him being gone would be better for everyone.

Apparently the coup failed and the soldiers turned themselves in. Many suspect they'll be charged with treason and either executed or locked in jail for who knows how long. Feel sorry for them, they're as good as dead.

Erdogan called for his Islamic supporters to take to the streets and stop the Military from the Coup.

And the US publicly backed him. That's crazy. The Turkish Military is there to protect democracy, and stop theocratic/autocratic rulers.

I know it's more complicated, but ... is it?

So much turmoil derived from a fundamental lack of education.

Totalitarians love the poorly educated...

Its not complicated at all. The US supports him because he was democratically elected by the people. The coup failed because he called on the public who elected him to take to the street and show the lower level military who were doing the coup who they wanted. And they did. Its amazing really. The coup was anti-democratically elected leader. The people did their will.

Fwiw, the higher level military leaders did not apparently support this coup.

The Turkish president is an interesting fellow, but he is popular with Turks and especially everyday blue collar Turks. I see no confusion as to why the population came out for him.


ETA: The likely reason for the coup is that followers of a prominent Thelogian wanted his followers to overthrow the more secular current government. This guy wanted stricter following of Islam in the country. Originally his people supported the president, but now they do not.

Dude lives in Pennsylvania.

If you look at history, having an uprising or coup attempt in Turkey is de riguer every 10-15 years anyhow...

Didn't Egypt have a similar issue a few years back?

Is thanksgiving over?:cry: