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- PonyBoy0
Turkey coup: Purge widens to education sector
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-eu…
"More than 15,000 education staff in Turkey have been suspended after last week's failed coup, as a purge of state officials widens still further...
More than 1,500 university deans have also been ordered to resign and the licences of 21,000 teachers working at private institutions revoked."
- Gnash0
"Turkish PM: Any country that stands by cleric Gulen will be at war with Turkey"
http://www.reuters.com/article/u…
I wonder if Erdogan thinks that Gulen living in the Poconos means that the usa is standing with him
- Turkey shut down the biggest US base in Turkey for a couple of hours.Obama is meeting with security council. There will prolly be talks about sending Gulen backBeeswax
- crazy times. erdogan will take full advantage - hope things don't get too much worse.Gnash
- hope you and your family are wellGnash
- I hope President Obama is doing his best to secure US nukes based in Turkey. Very inflammatory statement knowing he lives in the US.IRNlun6
- ^ exactly, IRN.Gnash
- ernexbcn2
This coup lasted less than my siesta. This reeks of self coup by Erdogan to get rid of enemies and tighten his grip
- lowimpakt0
seems to only be part of the army
it may fizzle out.
- imagine living in a country where your army decides to take over though... hard to imagine. govt wouldn't stand a chance in US.fadein11
- imagine living in a country where Islam decides to take overutopian
- ^lol. good one.yurimon
- well mixed reports right now, traditionally turkish military v.secular, but all hearsay right nowfadein11
- sarahfailin0
Should we start a Turkey Coup thread instead of keeping this one? Title does not entirely match the subject. Though I do hope beeswax is ok!
- if you want, i was only worried about people living there and I remember some people saying they were holidaying there.lowimpakt
- yeah we'll wait til we hear from bees first.sarahfailin
- too late? keep info in one place imosea_sea
- sarahfailin0
- who was phone?GeorgesII
- *swipes left*face_melter
- it' erdogan's facetime broadcast.sarahfailin
- sted0
This shit happens on the day when after a 3 hour meeting NATO members stated that they would not recognize Russia's annexation of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014.
- https://www.yahoo.co…sted
- sounds unrelateddrgs
- drgs google sanctions against rassa 2016sted
- sted0
- lolz. Oh boy.Continuity
- guy on my feed just said he was a turkish copHijoDMaite
- Media are reporting he was a riot police member.Continuity
- Gnash0
is this really how they deal with mice there?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?ti…
- sarahfailin0
hey beeswax. glad you're ok! i'm not sure what you're saying about Kurdistan though. Are you saying it's part of Erdogan's agenda to surrender part of Turkey to a Kurdish state? Or that the West is trying to orchestrate the re-creation of a Kurdish state?
My understanding has always been that Kurdistan used to exist before WWI, but then was dismantled, by Britain and other European countries, when the nations of Iraq, Syria etc. were drawn out by them. Of course they did this without any thought or knowledge of the history or interests of the people in the region.
Based on this, I've always thought the Kurds *ought* to have have their own country. Do you disagree? Thanks!
- Kurdistan is an area where Kurds live. But there has never been a Kurdistan country. Right now Iraqi Kurdistan is a regional government connected to Iraq.Beeswax
- Before WWI it was under Ottoman rule before it was Byzantine rule before that under Persian Empire. I'm not against it but it's being designed to be anotherBeeswax
- puppet country like some other middle east ones.The more you divide this area the more problems occur. But I'm all for doing a referendum and give it to theBeeswax
- will of the people. The problem is the area is not only home to Kurds. There are religious divisions, Turkmens, Arabs etc. It might also start another shitstormBeeswax
- Erdogan's ideal is a neo-ottoman state with different cultures living together in an expanded territory. That's why he's against Turkish nationalism tooBeeswax
- But West doesn't like this ideal at all. They will fool him into this idea like they did in Syria. So As Admiral Akbar says "It's a trap!"Beeswax
- wow very interesting points! thanks. I need to do more research.sarahfailin
- HijoDMaite0
Also,
"COUP D'ÉTAT...."
Ahhh, feels good to say the entire phrase. Make America say the full phrase again.
- putsch!sarahfailin
- Wow!! Turkey is returning to Islamic state and it has Hydrogen bomb stockpile!! Not good news for Europe at all. We have problems in USA but not like this.robotron3k
- ^tf are you talking about?sarahfailin
- sarahfailin1
http://www.reuters.com/article/u…
At the height of the attempt to overthrow Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, the rebel pilots of two F-16 fighter jets had Erdogan's plane in their sights. And yet he was able to fly on.
The Turkish leader was returning to Istanbul from a holiday near the coastal resort of Marmaris after a faction in the military launched the coup attempt on Friday night, sealing off a bridge across the Bosphorus, trying to capture Istanbul's main airport and sending tanks to parliament in Ankara.
"At least two F-16s harassed Erdogan's plane while it was in the air and en route to Istanbul. They locked their radars on his plane and on two other F-16s protecting him," a former military officer with knowledge of the events told Reuters.
"Why they didn't fire is a mystery," he said.
- feel1
- CyBrainX1
Is beeswax the guy who fielded questions about being a Muslim about a year ago?
- pablo28-2
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo on 28th June 1914, it triggered a chain of events that resulted in World War 1. After the assassination, Austria-Hungary threatened war on Serbia.
- http://www.qbn.com/r…sted
- Didn't he miss the first time?severian
- grenade didn't explode or it hit the wrong car_niko
- there were a number of assassins that day. such an interesting storyGnash
- Continuity1
Interesting — if short — article about the photographer who happened to be on the scene.