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Fei-Hung on 15 July 2016

Apparently a lot of civilians pouring into the streets taking on the tanks. Some military too.



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Barkley on 15 July 2016

Alarming tweets from British journalist suggest gunfights escalating in #Ankara #Turkey



forest-spirit on 15 July 2016

Civilians are getting shot by military forces. The military better keep casualties at a minimum or else this will get ugly.



Barkley on 15 July 2016

Report: Soldiers fire on people trying to cross Istanbul's Bosporus bridge in protest of the attempted coup



Slimebeast on 15 July 2016
konnichiwa said:
Slimebeast said:

I know all that.

I want Turkey to remain islamist so it's a guarantee it never can become a member of the EU.

We just struck a deal with Turkey about the Syrian refugees and restrict their passage into Europe. With a coup the floodgates might open again.

I don't like coups. They're illegal and undemocratic. Communist and socialists support coups. I do not.

Etc

Yeah I am not a fan of coups I just don't like the direction it was going. We already had the issue with the German comedian who had to shut up because he did an (horrible) song about Erdogan and in the Netherlands civilians with Turkish roots were applauding that Erdogan was giving a Dutch Turkish journalist house arrest because she dared to criticize Erdogan. Turkey with Erdogan has influence what is happening in Europe.

Yeah, he is a tough guy. He is obviously an autocrat, very nationalist (which is not a bad thing), and imperialistic (which is a bad thing). It's funny how he interfers with European internal matters, like those you mentioned, and this god damn undemocratic Mutti Merkel caved in! And he could flip-flop on the migrant issue, all of a sudden we're all his hostages. He is also against Assad and secretly supporting the Islamic State, which I don't like.

But I don't like the forced secularity on the Turkish people either since the days of Atatürk. Atatürk overexaggerated the secularism to the point it became undemocratic and harassment against religion, which all the elections in favor of islamists since then have proved. Despite the totalitarianism of Erdogan he still won the last election, which is an expression of the will of the people.

If the coup guys win I hope they find a middle ground in Turkish domestic politics, and that they became a reliable partner with the EU, and slightly less imperialistic.



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man-bear-pig on 15 July 2016

Erdogans islamist supporters have taken to the streets to help try quash the coup. Turkish mosques encouraging protesters to hit the streets too. Just seen a video of a mob of pro-Erdogan supporters marching through the streets chanting Allahu Akbar

Doesn't look like this is going to end well..



My prediction threads:

Wii U will sell under 40m units (made on 14th September 2012)

PS Vita will sell under 20m units (made on 30th September 2012)

Wii U will sell under 7m in 2013 - I was right

Halo 4 first 9 weeks sales prediction

PS4 to be down YOY in 2015

barneystinson69 on 15 July 2016

Does anyone by chance have a link to anything live? I'm having problems with my cable, and I want to see what is going on.



Made a bet with LipeJJ and HylianYoshi that the XB1 will reach 30 million before Wii U reaches 15 million. Loser has to get avatar picked by winner for 6 months (or if I lose, either 6 months avatar control for both Lipe and Hylian, or my patrick avatar comes back forever).

konnichiwa on 15 July 2016

Erdogan fans in Belgium are trying to invade a office of Gülen. Gülen is in the opposition in Turkey and are being blamed for the Coup...  Expecting similar reactions in other European countries.






Slimebeast on 15 July 2016
man-bear-pig said:
Erdogans islamist supporters have taken to the streets to help try quash the coup. Turkish mosques encouraging protesters to hit the streets too. Just seen a video of a mob of pro-Erdogan supporters marching through the streets chanting Allahu Akbar

Doesn't look like this is going to end well..

YES!! I want action. Coupist must always be punished with death.

I want either civil war or the coupist to be overthrown quickly.



Barkley on 15 July 2016

VERY HUGE!! #BreakingNews Reuters: Military coup leader in #Turkey surrenders himself to the security forces..