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theres a military coup in turkey or something right now?? what??? why? who? whom?
aircraft over cities and military arresting police??
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my money is on the generals thinking erdogan has been insufficiently vigilant in murdering kurds
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ppl on twitter are saying that the generals are Gulen aligned, but i dont know too much about what that implies. my impression is that they're more US friendly but that's based on half-remembering stuff i read a few years ago lol
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the FT telling us what we need to know
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hmm im pretty shocked, wtf
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https://twitter.com/Ayyinemikeder/status/754046084805173248
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erdogan's out of the country on vacation

soooo classic
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caught the last of the "assad must go" pokemen
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lol
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justice minister said its gülenists. hmmm
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apparently there are other people "on the ground" (???) saying its kemalists, sooooo...?
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i tried to find some intrepid amateur journalism on periscope in istanbul but i saw someone playing Pokemon Go and a penis
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Brown Moses coincidentally on the scene

Eliot Higgins ‏@EliotHiggins 11m11 minutes ago
Unconfirmed reports Erdogan is fleeing the country. It's rumour city here in Turkey at the moment.
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welp gonna follow
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ilmdge posted:

Brown Moses coincidentally on the scene

Eliot Higgins @EliotHiggins 11m11 minutes ago
Unconfirmed reports Erdogan is fleeing the country. It's rumour city here in Turkey at the moment.


apparently his wife is turkish lol

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ilmdge posted:

Brown Moses coincidentally on the scene

Eliot Higgins ‏@EliotHiggins 11m11 minutes ago
Unconfirmed reports Erdogan is fleeing the country. It's rumour city here in Turkey at the moment.



lol

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@ronanburtenshaw 2m2 minutes ago
Erdogan statement: promises to put down the coup, calls his supporters to the airport, pledges to "overturn their tanks".


so, civil war?
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haha article from just today
http://www.economist.com/news/europe/21702311-president-erdogans-attitudes-israel-russia-and-syria-have-undergone-sudden-reset-turkey
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so, WW3?
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Turkey's Erdogan urges people to take to streets
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via face time lol
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image of turkey's new supreme leader found (it's cesar milan (turks are dogs (lol)))
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seriously tho. rip to the EU
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the turkish intelligence agency is supposedly fighting the army trying to seize their offices which sounds 'noble' but uh, ill fated
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ilmdge posted:

Brown Moses coincidentally on the scene

Eliot Higgins ‏@EliotHiggins 11m11 minutes ago
Unconfirmed reports Erdogan is fleeing the country. It's rumour city here in Turkey at the moment.



Eliot Higgins ‏@EliotHiggins 11m11 minutes ago
fuck. gunfire

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just two days ago news came out that Turkey was filing paperwork to try to extradite Gulen from the US (http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/ankara-says-file-ready-to-seek-gulens-extradition-from-us.aspx?pageID=238&nID=101594&NewsCatID=509) doubtful it would have worked given his CIA connections, but interesting nonetheless.
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owned
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lol they accepted their last refugee yesterday soooooooorry!
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Dont Mess With Sucess
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ilmdge posted:

haha article from just today
http://www.economist.com/news/europe/21702311-president-erdogans-attitudes-israel-russia-and-syria-have-undergone-sudden-reset-turkey

Holy shit

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postposting posted:

just two days ago news came out that Turkey was filing paperwork to try to extradite Gulen from the US (http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/ankara-says-file-ready-to-seek-gulens-extradition-from-us.aspx?pageID=238&nID=101594&NewsCatID=509) doubtful it would have worked given his CIA connections, but interesting nonetheless.


ilmdge posted:

haha article from just today
http://www.economist.com/news/europe/21702311-president-erdogans-attitudes-israel-russia-and-syria-have-undergone-sudden-reset-turkey


holy shit

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Western media line already rolling out the old "It's a shame thousands of people are going to die but Erdogan is a bad man so what can you do?"

Again. I feel sick

meet me in DYTD
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roll out the billboards!



i really hope they had weird turkish ice cream truck music blaring from those things


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according to twitter of the turkish embassy in dc the commander of the first army (of four) has said that "the military does not support this coup attempt" so it's might not be a clean civilian vs. military divide.

one thing is for sure: this event is going to produce a lot of videos of turkish cops arresting turkish troops - goatstein's wet dream, or nightmare?
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(In Duran Duran voice) Cops on Troops