Coup In Turkey

all the fire trucks are being sued to prevent the mil from leaving bases...
though im not sure how that actually works..anyway..

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they tend to commit suicide by shooting themselves in the back of the head so the canard goes...


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TURKEY: Former police chief,
seen wearing military uniform on coup night
said to have committed suicide - @MhmtSlmz
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Gissur Simonarson CN ‏@GissiSim 6h
This is the 6th suicide
in the ranks of the detained coup plotters in #Turkey:
https://translate.google.com/transla...-text=&act=url



ilhan tanir ‏@WashingtonPoint 4h
I see news reports that at least 2, 3 arrested coup plotters
committed suicide at jails. Worrying signs


Abdullah Bozkurt ‏@abdbozkurt 13m
Turkey govt mouthpiece Aksam
claims detained Incirlik Air Base commander Bekir Ercan Van
met US, Iran, Syria & Iraq intelligence


Abdullah Bozkurt ‏@abdbozkurt 13m
According to this far-fetched account,
the commander was promised with deployment of foreign militia
in post-coup era by Americans & others
 
hoichi said:
they tend to commit suicide by shooting themselves in the back of the head so the canard goes...


Conflict News ‏@Conflicts 5h
TURKEY: Former police chief,
seen wearing military uniform on coup night
said to have committed suicide - @MhmtSlmz
CoKUNwwWIAASJ9B.jpg:small



Gissur Simonarson CN ‏@GissiSim 6h
This is the 6th suicide
in the ranks of the detained coup plotters in #Turkey:
https://translate.google.com/transla...-text=&act=url



ilhan tanir ‏@WashingtonPoint 4h
I see news reports that at least 2, 3 arrested coup plotters
committed suicide at jails. Worrying signs


Abdullah Bozkurt ‏@abdbozkurt 13m
Turkey govt mouthpiece Aksam
claims detained Incirlik Air Base commander Bekir Ercan Van
met US, Iran, Syria & Iraq intelligence


Abdullah Bozkurt ‏@abdbozkurt 13m
According to this far-fetched account,
the commander was promised with deployment of foreign militia
in post-coup era by Americans & others
Click to expand...

Does seem like it would be less paperwork involved....
 
Curious... anyone know what happens if fire spreads to armories? Shells will detonate... but what say nukes? Seems like something would be in place... granted the are in the ground so... but still curious...
 
Nukes won't blow up. Detonators are stored separately.
 
Reba said:
Nukes won't blow up. Detonators are stored separately.
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this fire isnt close to the nuke base, this is another nato base, across the country...
as for the nukes
america only has itself to blame
as my mother taught me
be careful who get mixed up...


if america thought it was a grand idea to store nuke sin a country full of savages..
thanks allot!!

amercia isnt known for its wisdom....thats for sure..never really ever has..
its been known for all kinds of good things sure,,,...wisdom has never been one
 
Has Avrat ‏@hasavrat 8m
PM Yıldırım has announced that the Bosporus Bridge
will be renamed 'July 15 Martyrs Bridge'.

Has Avrat ‏@hasavrat 4m
PM Yıldırım: "To counter the negative impact
felt by the blockages in system,
we will work to make small amendments to constitution."


Ankaralı Jan ‏@06JAnk 8m
PM Yıldırım: [On question about Constitutional Changes]
"It would not be right for me to reveal anything more to you at this point
 
Turkey’s president has been pushing for some time for a new presidential systemto govern the country, sparring with critics who accuse him of attempting a power grab.

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s latest comments in favour of greater executive powers are unlikely to help him bring those critics round. On Friday he was quoted by Turkish media as citing a striking example of an effective presidential system – Germany under Adolf Hitler.

Asked on his return from a visit to Saudi Arabia whether an executive presidential system was possible while maintaining the unitary structure of the state, he said: “There are already examples in the world. You can see it when you look at Hitler’s Germany.

“There are later examples in various other countries,” he told reporters, according to a recording broadcast by the Dogan news agency and reported by Reuters.

A Turkish official sought to clarify Erdoğan’s remark. “There are good and poor examples of presidential systems and the important thing is to put checks and balances in place,” he said. “Nazi Germany, lacking proper institutional arrangements, was obviously one of the most disgraceful examples in history.”

The presidency said in a statement that: “Erdogan’s ‘Hitler’s Germany’ metaphor has been distorted by some news sources and has been used in the opposite sense.”

Erdoğan wants to change the constitution to turn the ceremonial role of president into that of a chief executive, a Turkish version of the system in the US, France and Russia.

The ruling Justice and Development party (AKP), which he founded, has put a new constitution at the heart of its agenda after winning back a majority in parliamentary elections in November.

It reached agreement with the main opposition Republican People’s party (CHP) on Wednesday to revive efforts to forge a new constitution.

Opposition parties agree on the need to change the constitution, drawn up after a 1980 coup and still bearing the stamp of its military authors, but they do not back the presidential system Erdoğan, fearing it would consolidate too much power in the hands of an authoritarian leader.

The statement from the presidency said his comments were meant to demonstrate that an executive presidency can exist in a unitary state and does not depend on a federal system of government, and that neither a presidential nor parliamentary system is a guarantee against abuse of power.

“If the system is abused it may lead to bad management resulting in disasters as in Hitler’s Germany ... The important thing is to pursue fair management that serves the nation,” the statement said, adding it was unacceptable to suggest Erdogan was casting Hitler’s Germany in a positive light.


https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...-hitlers-germany-example-effective-government
 
For links see article source.....
Posted for fair use.....
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-tu...-idUSKCN1061DK

World | Tue Jul 26, 2016 3:01pm EDT
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Turkish troops hunt remaining coup plotters as crackdown widens

ISTANBUL/ANKARA | By Daren Butler and Orhan Coskun


Turkish special forces backed by helicopters, drones and the navy hunted a remaining group of commandos thought to have tried to capture or kill President Tayyip Erdogan during a failed coup, as a crackdown on suspected plotters widened on Tuesday.

More than 1,000 members of the security forces were involved in the manhunt for the 11 rogue soldiers in the hills around the Mediterranean coastal resort of Marmaris, where Erdogan was holidaying on the night of the coup attempt, officials said.

Erdogan and the government accuse U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen of orchestrating the attempted power grab and have launched a crackdown on his suspected followers. More than 60,000 soldiers, police, judges and civil servants have been arrested, suspended or put under investigation.

The religious affairs directorate removed another 620 staff including preachers and instructors in the Koran on Tuesday, bringing to more than 1,100 the number of people it has purged since the July 15 coup attempt.

Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said two Turkish ambassadors, currently in Ankara, had also been removed. Former Istanbul governor Huseyin Avni Mutlu was detained and his house searched.

"There is no institution which this structure has not infiltrated," Erdogan's son-in-law, Energy Minister Berat Albayrak, said in a televised interview, referring to Gulen's network of followers.

"Every institution is being assessed and will be assessed," he said. The response from the Turkish authorities would, he said, be just and not amount to a witch-hunt.

The coup attempt raised particular questions about the air force, some of whose senior members were deeply involved, and could lead to the re-investigation of past incidents including the downing by the Turkish military of a Russian warplane near the Syrian border last year, Albayrak said.

The incident provoked Russian trade sanctions but there are signs of rapprochement, with Turkey thanking Moscow for its solid support during the abortive putsch. By contrast it has frosty ties with Europe, which has criticized the post-coup crackdown, and with the United States, which it has urged to extradite Gulen.

Albayrak made the comments as the highest-level Turkish delegation since the downing of the jet visited Moscow and officials announced a planned meeting between Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin next month.

"Erdogan will be eager to send a message to Washington and EU capitals that Turkey has other options," said Tim Ash, a strategist at Nomura and a veteran Turkey watcher.

The Turkish parliament set up on Tuesday a commission to investigate the coup attempt, with the backing of all political parties. It will also examine the allegations that the Gulen movement infiltrated the government and instigated the coup attempt.


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Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag said suspects were now being questioned. "Those testimonies will give us a lot of information about the Gulen movement's influence within Turkey," he said during the commission's discussions.


MOST TURKS BLAME GULEN

Gulen, who has lived in self-imposed exile in the United States since 1999, denies involvement and says the coup may have been orchestrated by Erdogan himself to justify a crackdown, a suggestion the president has roundly condemned.

In an op-ed in the New York Times, Gulen wrote that if members of his "Hizmet" (Service) network had been involved in the attempted coup they had betrayed his ideals, saying Erdogan's accusations revealed "his systematic and dangerous drive towards one-man rule".

Almost two thirds of Turks believe Gulen was behind the coup attempt, according to a poll released on Tuesday. The Andy-Ar survey showed nearly 4 percent blamed the United States or foreign powers and barely 2 percent blamed Erdogan.

On July 15 rogue soldiers commandeered fighters jets, helicopters and tanks to close bridges and try to seize airports. They bombed parliament, police headquarters and other key buildings in their bid for power. At least 246 people were killed, many of them civilians, and 2,000 wounded.

Around a third of Turkey's roughly 360 serving generals have been detained since the abortive coup, more than 100 of them already charged pending trial.

Two Turkish generals based in Afghanistan were detained in Dubai, a Turkish official said on Tuesday, naming them as Major-General Cahit Bakir, a commander of Turkish forces serving in the international NATO-led security force in Afghanistan, and Brigadier Sener Topuc, who oversees education and aid in the country.


MANHUNT

The 11 soldiers being hunted in Marmaris were among a group of commandos who attacked a hotel where Erdogan had been staying. Seven others were detained at a police checkpoint on Monday.

As the coup unfolded, Erdogan said the plotters had tried to attack him in Marmaris, bombing places where he had been shortly after he left. He "evaded death by minutes", an official close to him said at the time.


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"It was an assassination attempt against Erdogan and this is being taken very seriously ... Searches are continuing in Marmaris and the surrounding areas with around 1,000 members of the security forces," another official said on Tuesday.

"The searches will continue uninterrupted until these people are found."

Weapons, hand grenades and ammunition have been seized in the countryside around Marmaris in an operation based on information from detained soldiers, said Amir Cicek, governor of Mugla province where Marmaris is located.

Special forces police, commandos, the coast guard and the navy were all involved, Cicek said in a statement.

The scale of the arrests and suspensions following the coup attempt have raised concerns among rights groups and Western countries, which fear that Erdogan is capitalizing on it to muzzle dissent and remove opponents across the board.

Erdogan has declared a state of emergency, which allows him to sign new laws without prior parliamentary approval and limit rights as he deems necessary. In his first such decree, Erdogan ordered the closure of thousands of private schools, charities and foundations with suspected links to Gulen.

The measure went "well beyond the legitimate aim of promoting accountability for the bloody July 15 coup attempt," said Emma Sinclair-Webb, Turkey director at Human Rights Watch.

"It is an unvarnished move for an arbitrary, mass and permanent purge of the civil service, prosecutors and judges, and to close down private institutions and associations without evidence, justification or due process," she said.

Turkey wants the United States to extradite the cleric, a call supported on Tuesday by Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the leader of Turkey's main secularist opposition, but Washington has said it will do so only if there is clear evidence of wrongdoing.

In a sign of Washington's concerns about the security situation, the U.S. Embassy in Ankara said on Tuesday employees' family members had been authorized to leave voluntarily, citing a possible "increase in police or military activities and restrictions on movement" by the Turkish authorities.


(Additional reporting by Humeyra Pamuk, Ayla Jean Yackley and Gareth Jones in Istanbul, Ercan Gurses and Gulsen Solaker in Ankara, Denis Pinchuk in Moscow; writing by Nick Tattersall and Seda Sezer; editing by Gareth Jones, Peter Graff and David Stamp)
 
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OMG... no freedom in Turkey.

It make Russia looks more civil now.
 
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