Military coup in Turkey?

robfosters · 16 Jul 2016 at 00:38

phil675 said:
Ugh

I've just tweeted him to tell him what a prat I think he is.

Mynight · 16 Jul 2016 at 00:38

Calm down rob no need to get so angry as to send a tweet

. Please say you had a good hashtag?

muon said:
Forget Boris.

I want to hear what Donald Trump will say. I'm sure something ridiculous will come out of his mouth. Probably end up supporting the coup.

He has. There was a tweet about "Taking their country back and so will we when I become president".

TheStarkFactor · 16 Jul 2016 at 00:39

My parents are due to fly out to Turkey in the coming weeks for a holiday, be interesting to see how this develops.

Rroff · 16 Jul 2016 at 00:39

dowie said:
Gulen Movement opposes coup, not looking good....

https://twitter.com/MllerQuentin/status/754095214013317120

Seems to be hedging their bets with that statement.

Bonjour · 16 Jul 2016 at 00:40

People flooding the airport. Has to be over..

muon · 16 Jul 2016 at 00:41

Which days are the weekend in Turkey?

Saturday and Sunday or Friday and Saturday?

dowie · 16 Jul 2016 at 00:42

Bonjour said:
People flooding the airport. Has to be over..

bit premature to call it over at the moment

robfosters · 16 Jul 2016 at 00:43

Mynight said:
Calm down rob no need to get so angry as to send a tweet . Please say you had a good hashtag?

#mental ****

robfosters · 16 Jul 2016 at 00:43

rickjames · 16 Jul 2016 at 00:43

Bombing parliament now

phil675 · 16 Jul 2016 at 00:44

It's late. Michael Portillo late.

muon · 16 Jul 2016 at 00:44

The soldiers that attempted this. They are pretty much guaranteed to get jailed for life.

What will some of the more desperate ones do now?

robfosters · 16 Jul 2016 at 00:45

If this fails, I really hope Erdogan doesn't start executing people. That will just make the situation a hundred times worse.

Bonjour · 16 Jul 2016 at 00:45

dowie said:
bit premature to call it over at the moment

OK. Not 'over' over, but it doesn't look like it's going to succeed.

muon · 16 Jul 2016 at 00:46

So a curfew was announced. I was wondering why they hadn't done that.

So simply being outside was a direct challenge to the coup in itself.

V F · 16 Jul 2016 at 00:47

rickjames said:
Bombing parliament now

Quite a big flash as well.

zain · 16 Jul 2016 at 00:48

Yesterday wasn't bad enough...

This is just insane now, well, it was insane before but now it's something else...

No one wants peace any more?

dowie · 16 Jul 2016 at 00:49

Bonjour said:
OK. Not 'over' over, but it doesn't look like it's going to succeed.

I'm not sure we really know that for sure either way... sure there are various statements by people in power etc.. however that hasn't seemed to have changed the situation on the ground yet

the more interesting bit of information are the jet shooting the helicopter for example, whether that was another part of the military opposing the coup or something else... the PM has made statements re: all planes currently flying over Ankara will be shot down which implies that they're all pro-coup

Rroff · 16 Jul 2016 at 00:49

zain said:
No one wants peace any more?

Peace takes both sides.

dowie · 16 Jul 2016 at 00:51

AP news feed

BREAKING: Turkish national intelligence spokesman says coup attempt has been "repelled."

then

BREAKING: Anadolu Agency reports a bomb has hit the Turkish parliament in Ankara.

hmmm