Coup in Turkey

[derpcake]

Looks like Erdogan going down.

Lets all hope so.

[maskedmelon]

How will this affect their Bid for EU admission?

[AzzarTheGod]

The same government that distanced itself from the actions of its military generals on a monthly basis?

They had some serious weird cognitive dissonance and disassociation between various branches of government for a long time now with really dissociative language being used by the president. Every time I read a press release I'd think to myself damn this country sounds fucked up, how does a "commander-in-chief" use such dissociative language when talking about his own government.

I don't think this comes as a surprise.

Originally Posted by maskedmelon [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

How will this affect their Bid for EU admission?

Any experts in the house

[derpcake]

Originally Posted by Rivthis [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

so turkey can be like syria?

this isnt good

No, you don't seem informed.

Erdogan wants to revert Turkey to an islam-based state.

The army has stated they do not want religion ruling the country.

Erdogan is less progressive then Ataturk.

[big_ole_jpn]

got western friends livin in ankara pray for em bros (they're all open borders zogbots so w/e really but i love em anyway)

[AzzarTheGod]

Originally Posted by derpcake [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

No, you don't seem informed.

Erdogan wants to revert Turkey to an islam-based state.

The army has stated they do not want religion ruling the country.

Erdogan is less progressive then Ataturk.

That explains the dissociative political platform hes been running.

An attempt to get the Turkmen to marginalize the military opinion on how Turkey should be. He pushed too hard and it went down in flames. Good game.

[derpcake]

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[derpcake]

Originally Posted by Rivthis [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

do you understand what you just wrote.

pres wants islam based state

military say secular state

so their is a rift, that could end up a civil war being pres and supports against generals and supports, thus syria

Military already stated foreign relations would not change based on the exchange of power.

Given that Erdogan shut down public media, I'm thinking things can only improve.

A civil war would end really fast, given that the army and the educated part of Turkey support the coup.

[derpcake]

A military coup involves armed forces?

Who could have thought.

[Raev]

Originally Posted by derpcake [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Looks like Erdogan going down.

Lets all hope so.

IIRC Erdogan has been making huge amounts of money dealing with ISIS. He's also famous for prosecuting a german comedian for making fun of him (and of course Merkel bent over and took it, metaphorically).

So yeah, let's hope he's out.