Military coup in Turkey?

[Caged]

Also, just thinking, what happened to Erdogans ban on street protests? He appears to be having second thoughts on that one.

It's almost like having "must stay in power" as the number one objective doesn't lead to effective well thought through policies.

 

[Iraklis F.C.]

Was he a democratic leader? Not that I support him.

he won elections, so that makes him a democratically elected leader. His actions are questionable but no one can deny he wasnt elected...

 

[Deleted member 651465]

Terrible from Erdogan. I know he's desperate but you don't go imploring people to go and protest in places where the military are at a time like this.

Also, just thinking, what happened to Erdogans ban on street protests? He appears to be having second thoughts on that one.

That went out the window, it seems!

 

[Raggs]

Time to build a bomb shelter / bunker

 

[muon]

Terrible from Erdogan. I know he's desperate but you don't go imploring people to go and protest in places where the military are at a time like this.

Also, just thinking, what happened to Erdogans ban on street protests? He appears to be having second thoughts on that one.

If people come out in large numbers, the coup is almost guaranteed to fail.

The military are hardly going to kill civilians.

 

[Uther]

Terrible from Erdogan. I know he's desperate but you don't go imploring people to go and protest in places where the military are at a time like this.

Also, just thinking, what happened to Erdogans ban on street protests? He appears to be having second thoughts on that one.

Yep, a call to supporters against the army could easily end in a bloodbath.

 

[dowie]

If people come out in large numbers, the coup is almost guaranteed to fail.

The military are hardly going to kill civilians.

wishful thinking by him there I suspect, especially given his crackdown on protests

 

[Rroff]

Time to build a bomb shelter / bunker

You don't have one already?

 

[muon]

Yep, a call to supporters against the army could easily end in a bloodbath.

I doubt the majority of the military contains murderers.

The question is whether people will listen.

 

[phil675]

What a week.

 

[bingham67]

Looks like everyone turning up at the airport for a party

 

[robfosters]

Looks like everyone turning up at the airport for a party

Yeah, it seems like everyone out there is in support of the coup.

 

[Rids]

That speech from Erdogan sounds to me like the plea of a desperate man? I'm no expert in this, I'm an accountant, but surely encouraging your citizens onto the street against an armed security force doesn't sound like something a responsible leader would do.

 

[Glaucus]

do we know yet what the coup group stand for?

 

[robfosters]

I'm no expert in this, I'm an accountant,

Of course you're an expert. As soon as something happens in the world everyone on here's an expert.

 

[Bonjour]

are you actually supporting the current President

No. I'm coining Brexit phrases as I thought it was topical.

Though to be honest I'd see it as the secularists taking back control in an attempt to make Turkey great again, along the lines of Ataturk's vision.

 

[aardvark]

That speech from Erdogan sounds to me like the plea of a desperate man? I'm no expert in this, I'm an accountant, but surely encouraging your citizens onto the street against an armed security force doesn't sound like something a responsible leader would do.

i don't think Erdogan and responsible leader have been used in the same sentence ever.

 

[B&W]

Chief of general staff kidnapped apparently, not good if true might be a fringe part of the military.

 

[muon]

Of course you're an expert. As soon as something happens in the world everyone on here's an expert.

Where has anyone claimed to be an expert?

Condescending post much?

 

[Bonjour]

do we know yet what the coup group stand for?

It's most likely a secularist uprising.