Many soldiers have been detained by police forces and pro-coup helicopters have been shot down by F-16s.
Man, if Erdogan wins this, secularism is pretty much dead in Turkey.
Then again, I guess if that's what the populace wants then whatever.
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No, seriously though, it'd be great if we can keep the thread from literally reposting Twitter, or rephrasing tweets to repost. We can see those, if anyone wants to see those they can follow Twitter. Keep it for actual discussion and or being funny.
Originally Posted by asterism42
Yeah, gotta agree with that, people can go to twitter or the reddit livethread if they want all the second by second updates.
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Sounds like the coup is not going too well.
I guess it turns out it's difficult to coup a leader who actually won a democratic election and therefore has support? Good old college try I suppose but... communications back up, that was probably the first sign this was not going to happen.
They only know because I told them and I barely know what's going on because we've been running at full tilt all night.
Though that said my off the cuff reaction to all this is, "well, yeah." He's bad for Turkey, he's bad for Turkey's neighbors, and he's bad for Turkey's allies.
If anything, it's amazing he's lasted this long.
Well it seems like he's going to keep lasting!
If he's won/winning, I haven't been able to spectate so I wouldn't know!
It imploded fairly quickly
So what sorts of things has Erdogan done (besides goatfucking)?
Usually coups are bad things, but I'm picking up a surprising amount of disappointment that it failed.
Well, he's a paranoid, Islamist dictator who has repeatedly irritated key allies, done significant damage to the economy, and decided it'd be a great idea to poke Putin in the eye.
My TL is nothing but people being horny over the guys from Voltron, I rely on this thread entirely to get my news.
Dont worry
ill handle the being funny part
untrue I was retweeting this entire coup
This feels really bizarre to me, but apparently this was something people aren't really surprised by? Like, apparently it was bunch of colonels who did it and by all accounts, just a terribly planned coup.
Because the impression I'm getting is that Erdogan is legit terrible and that this is going to make everything worse.
Why is a Kurd state a bad thing again?
Well for Turkey it's because it doesn't want to surrender its territory even when it ISN'T run by a megalomaniac. For most other parties worth mentioning it mostly doesn't matter except with relation to how the Turks feel about it. Of course outside of Turkey, Iraqi Kurdistan is de facto a sovereign state and the Kurds there are extremely interested in their cousins in Syria and Turkey.
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Welp, now I know why my mom sent me a message at 7 in the morning that she's happy she chose not to fly back through Istanbul.
Also gj on jobbing hard and giving Erdogan more reason to move towards whatever wonderland he wants Turkey to be.
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