Turkey

[Manc in London]

If all this is true, the military need to succeed. One good thing is that out of a population of 75 million, there seem to be only a few thousand on the streets, and that is in spite of all the reckless rallying calls by Erdogan and others. They look peaceful, the crowds, anyway.

I would think quite a few of those are people simply on their way home, were at the airport etc..

Hopefully, it is both a successful and bloodless coup.

 

[MeatnSpudsMCFC]

Sounds like it's failing.

 

[Akai]

Reports suggesting 17 police officers have been killed so far by the military

 

[stony]

Jeus fucking christ.

The claims of firing into crowds would be more believable if the accompanying footage didn't show the tracers clearly being fired high into the air.

 

[Blue Haze]

Obama just released a statement telling Turkish citizens to respect the elected government. Meaning the coup appears to have failed.

Civil war, then, or total dictatorship by Erdogan. Such a shame nobody captured him.

 

[RandomJ]

If it does fail then Erdogan will be pretty much unstoppable and will make sure the army can't do it again.

 

[Akai]

Apparently an F16 just took down a helicopter ..

 

[MeatnSpudsMCFC]

Obama just released a statement telling Turkish citizens to respect the elected government. Meaning the coup appears to have failed.

Civil war, then, or total dictatorship by Erdogan.

One day a leading political figure will put out a statement in reply telling the US to stop policing the world and to f*cking mind its own business.

 

[mat]

One day a leading political figure will put out a statement in reply telling the US to stop policing the world and to f*cking mind its own business.

Beat me too it.

 

[Blue Haze]

One day a leading political figure will put out a statement in reply telling the US to stop policing the world and to f*cking mind its own business.

20 years ago the US government would have backed this coup. Now we, for some reason, support an Islamist, terrorist-supporting strongman who is hellbent on destroying a key NATO member.

Such a shame Obama turned out to be a weak-willed fool. Syria 2.0 where Obama tries to "fix" things and they end up getting worse.