16-07-2016, 05:47 AM
(This post was last modified: 16-07-2016, 07:06 AM by Peter Lemkin.)
This will really enhance Turkey's chance of admission to the EU, after they win the stability or acting award - perhaps both.:
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I don't yet see any reaction from Edmonds, but I'm sure one interesting will soon be forthcoming. From the confusion and play-acting going on in Turkey, I'd think anyone would take some hours to hazard even a guess what is really going on. As others have pointed out, something is not right about this 'coup', who haven't even tried to take over government nor communications. It is more shadow boxing of some strange Turkish kind. Have they taken over anything other than the Ankara airport? I now hear it is 750 army personnel arrested - hardly large numbers, but others being invited to return to their posts under the 'old regime'. Ah yes, two bridges over the straits at Istanbul are apparently under old regime control in reaction to the 'coup'. Also some military planes flying over Ankara and Istanbul are reported. The so-called leader of the coup is shown very politely being handcuffed with plastic cuffs. He doesn't look very worried for his fate in the photo. The 'captured' former head of the military was 'freed' without even a scratch on his head or seemingly of anyone else. Five unnamed Generals detained, while all other Generals pledge support to old government. It seems like some very bad theater....a way of Erdogan getting public support and sympathy for his rule.
I think the general consensus in Istanbul now is that this is a ploy to be able to crack down on the population and have military rule by the old regime, not the by the 'coup'.....
...apparently reports of >60 deaths and a helicopter shot down..... I'd call it Coup-Light...very, very, very light...staged or welcomed by the old-regime, best I can see. This puts Turkey on par with South Sudan as far as stability and transparency goes. Turkey has a long history of real coups...this does NOT seem to be one of them.
:I don't yet see any reaction from Edmonds, but I'm sure one interesting will soon be forthcoming. From the confusion and play-acting going on in Turkey, I'd think anyone would take some hours to hazard even a guess what is really going on. As others have pointed out, something is not right about this 'coup', who haven't even tried to take over government nor communications. It is more shadow boxing of some strange Turkish kind. Have they taken over anything other than the Ankara airport? I now hear it is 750 army personnel arrested - hardly large numbers, but others being invited to return to their posts under the 'old regime'. Ah yes, two bridges over the straits at Istanbul are apparently under old regime control in reaction to the 'coup'. Also some military planes flying over Ankara and Istanbul are reported. The so-called leader of the coup is shown very politely being handcuffed with plastic cuffs. He doesn't look very worried for his fate in the photo. The 'captured' former head of the military was 'freed' without even a scratch on his head or seemingly of anyone else. Five unnamed Generals detained, while all other Generals pledge support to old government. It seems like some very bad theater....a way of Erdogan getting public support and sympathy for his rule.
I think the general consensus in Istanbul now is that this is a ploy to be able to crack down on the population and have military rule by the old regime, not the by the 'coup'.....
...apparently reports of >60 deaths and a helicopter shot down..... I'd call it Coup-Light...very, very, very light...staged or welcomed by the old-regime, best I can see. This puts Turkey on par with South Sudan as far as stability and transparency goes. Turkey has a long history of real coups...this does NOT seem to be one of them.
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"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass