If not sarcastic, to try and protect secularism in the government.
BBC News just livestreaming those people on the bridge getting shot at. You can even hear the bullet ricochets. Like a movie, but real life.
Military coup in Turkey?
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If not sarcastic, to try and protect secularism in the government.
BBC News just livestreaming those people on the bridge getting shot at. You can even hear the bullet ricochets. Like a movie, but real life.
Depends on whether that crowd are advancing. Many people have been killed by the unarmed
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Whatever you think of Edrogan, a military coup is an extremely ugly "solution". Even if the outcome is simply a new set of elections without bloodshed: Edrogan's party is the most widely supported in Turkey, so they would surely win again. So what does it achieve? Other than to roll back the idea that democracy is the means to achieve change.
And that's the absolute best case. People have already been killed, this is not bloodless, and whatever democracy is restored seems unlikely to be free and fair at least in the short term.
So Edrogan gone = good, sure, but all means of achieving that goal are not necessarily good. Just consider the Egyptian coup.
And that's the absolute best case. People have already been killed, this is not bloodless, and whatever democracy is restored seems unlikely to be free and fair at least in the short term.
So Edrogan gone = good, sure, but all means of achieving that goal are not necessarily good. Just consider the Egyptian coup.
Strictly, democracy and liberty are different things.
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Helicopter firing at ground targets, jesus christ.
Helicopter firing at ground targets, jesus christ.
That assumes elections are fair and (mostly) free of corruption.
Things change if you're in a smallish group with a baying mob wanting your guts.
I'm willing to bet the soldiers guarding that bridge are on a knife edge. I certainly wouldn't be wanting to push them.
Not really but not much point replying to you if you're going to ignore the below and carry on like that
Guys, I know this is a tense situation but please lets refrain from the personal jibes and except that some may have different views or beliefs
Weird how the lines of the tracer are moving with the camera angle.
I'm hoping thats just another angle of the shot from earlier. Jesus christ, I hope this calms down.
I don't think many people are saying that Turkish elections have been corrupt enough to affect the result though.
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Perhaps you should follow your own advice ...
The whole world is corrupt to a greater degree. Everyone has their price.
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Unless proven otherwise I assume so