Mox Posted July 15, 2016 Share Posted July 15, 2016 https://www.reddit.com/live/x9gf3donjlkq That reddit group is full of up to date stuff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hunchy Posted July 15, 2016 Share Posted July 15, 2016 Watching Euronews just now with live footage from the bridge. Large group tried to head on to the bridge and shots were fired. Can't say if the shots were at the crowd or into the air Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-Man Posted July 15, 2016 Share Posted July 15, 2016 1 hour ago, phart said: they were talking about the possibility on the corbet report about it being a possibility back in December. Seems a few folk saw it coming, I never,  My friends, who were my employers when I worked in Istanbul have been talking about a coup since last  year. They were very surprised nothing happened after attack at peace rally and when we spoke after airport attack Amir said if nothing happened now then it never would. They were definitely hoping for an army takeover. I pray their hopes come true in the way they prayed for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mox Posted July 15, 2016 Share Posted July 15, 2016 Seems to me as though the military lads may have shafted themselves here. No curfew in place, thousands on the street, army personnel being attacked and arrested. Could be nipped In the bud pretty soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ally Bongo Posted July 15, 2016 Author Share Posted July 15, 2016 Rumours abound that it is a coup within a coup to strengthen Erdogan's position Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phart Posted July 16, 2016 Share Posted July 16, 2016 Looking like it has failed. 42 folk dead though Who's to say the people involved in the coup weren't involved in the blackmarket oil as well. Anyway I don't really know much about this seems it wasn't a surprised to some peeps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phart Posted July 16, 2016 Share Posted July 16, 2016 4 hours ago, G-Man said: My friends, who were my employers when I worked in Istanbul have been talking about a coup since last  year. They were very surprised nothing happened after attack at peace rally and when we spoke after airport attack Amir said if nothing happened now then it never would. They were definitely hoping for an army takeover. I pray their hopes come true in the way they prayed for. Yeah Turkey has a history of military intervention. Yeah it seems a few folk were almost waiting for this to happen. Including the council on foreign relations. I watched a video last year (which i posted) that talked about it, but forgot i had watched it till i saw the coup happening. 42 folk dead maybe 17 policemen and helicopters being shot down as the army fights the army. Not good at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonnyTJS Posted July 16, 2016 Share Posted July 16, 2016 Goes to show, it's not easy to stage a successful military coup in the social-media age if the government has a reasonable degree of popular support. Time was you just had to seize the building of the state broadcaster. Things have changed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pool Q Posted July 16, 2016 Share Posted July 16, 2016 (edited) 20 minutes ago, DonnyTJS said: Goes to show, it's not easy to stage a successful military coup in the social-media age if the government has a reasonable degree of popular support. Time was you just had to seize the building of the state broadcaster. Things have changed. Very true. Lock down the media, put a few tanks on the street and people tended (understandably) to stay in their houses while relatively small numbers of troops seized power. Not now. It's still not really clear who and what, but it is being reported as a faction of the the military staging a coup to protect the secular nature of the state. However pretty much all of the political parties seem to have rallied to the government against the coup, including the secular and Kurdish ones. Erdogan has purged much of the leadership of the army in recent years, so it may be fairly junior officers behind the coup. Edited July 16, 2016 by Pool Q Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phart Posted July 16, 2016 Share Posted July 16, 2016 22 minutes ago, DonnyTJS said: Goes to show, it's not easy to stage a successful military coup in the social-media age if the government has a reasonable degree of popular support. Time was you just had to seize the building of the state broadcaster. Things have changed. It's mental really, I just watched an attempted military coup via social media from my house. Very surreal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pool Q Posted July 16, 2016 Share Posted July 16, 2016 Erdogan clearly looking to blame it on supporters of Gulen in the army as being behind the coup, the suggestion is that they have acted now as many will be removed at the military council next month. Wouldn't trust anything Erdogan said though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mox Posted July 16, 2016 Share Posted July 16, 2016 I'm no expert but it seems to have been a pretty to poorly organised and executed coup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ally Bongo Posted July 16, 2016 Author Share Posted July 16, 2016 Yep Seems they have never watched Valkyrie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveyDenoon Posted July 16, 2016 Share Posted July 16, 2016 Was in Marmaris yesterday until about 11pm and no sign of any problems at all. Couple of police cars whizzing past with the lights going but that's a normal occurrence anyway so thought nothing of it. Reports of gunfire and explosions but we were in the main part all evening and saw nothing amiss. Staying in Icmeler at the moment and apparently the road to Marmaris is now closed and there are reports of gunfire between here and Marmaris but again I have see nothing amiss whatsoever. Crazy times we're living in though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ally Bongo Posted July 16, 2016 Author Share Posted July 16, 2016 The more footage that appears the more staged it all looks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoonTheSlope Posted July 16, 2016 Share Posted July 16, 2016 The sooner somebody presses that button and puts us all out of our misery the better. Let's put this shite to bed once and for all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TDYER63 Posted July 16, 2016 Share Posted July 16, 2016 6 minutes ago, DoonTheSlope said: The sooner somebody presses that button and puts us all out of our misery the better. Let's put this shite to bed once and for all Thats a cheery wee post. Can we wait till the end of October,  I am booked to go to Turkey on holiday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orraloon Posted July 16, 2016 Share Posted July 16, 2016 18 minutes ago, TDYER63 said: Thats a cheery wee post. Can we wait till the end of October,  I am booked to go to Turkey on holiday. Have you got room in your suitcase for a couple of nuclear warheads? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoonTheSlope Posted July 16, 2016 Share Posted July 16, 2016 Now paedophiles have got a free pass to go about filming bairns, all they need to say is that they are playing Pokemon The worlds fücked Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TDYER63 Posted July 16, 2016 Share Posted July 16, 2016 43 minutes ago, Orraloon said: Have you got room in your suitcase for a couple of nuclear warheads? if i leave my corsets at home i should just about manage it  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eisegerwind Posted July 16, 2016 Share Posted July 16, 2016 Could somebody educate me here, have I got this right. Erdogan government democratically elected (by some sort of Western standard),trying to make the country less secular more Islamic. Supports rebels in Syria, gets terrorist attacks from PKK (also supporting/ part of rebels in Syria) and ISIS. Attempted coup in order to remove Erdogan government and replace with .......? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thplinth Posted July 17, 2016 Share Posted July 17, 2016 Amazing that every thing Putin is falsely accused of in the western press Erdogan actually does and far far worse and the same press and TV is silent. The coup does loo like it was maybe encouraged to allow this massive purge. Brexit looking better with every day... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phart Posted July 17, 2016 Share Posted July 17, 2016 Have a watch at the Sibel Edmonds interview thplinth i posted earlier. Gives a different perspective. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thplinth Posted July 17, 2016 Share Posted July 17, 2016 38 minutes ago, phart said: Have a watch at the Sibel Edmonds interview thplinth i posted earlier. Gives a different perspective. Yeah I saw it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thplinth Posted July 17, 2016 Share Posted July 17, 2016 I like Sibel (a lot) but we will have to diverge on this one (a lot). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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