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This isn't the first coup Turkey has had, and NATO survived.
by ZanyProgrammer 10y ago
This isn't the first coup Turkey has had, and NATO survived.
- chvid 10y agoIt is not 1975 anymore.
- jychang 10y agoThe last military coup in Turkey was in 1997. They're in the business of doing this stuff.
- oblio 10y agoThe Wikipedia page for the 1997 one is bordering between hilarious and amazing: > At the National Security Council (MGK) meeting on 28 February 1997, the generals submitted their views on issues regarding secularism and political Islam on Turkey to the government. The MGK made several decisions during this meeting, and Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan from the Welfare Party was forced to sign the decisions, some of which were: * Eight years of primary school education * Shutting down many religious schools opened during his term * Abolition of Tarikats (sectarian groups) I'd be expecting those demands from a liberal group, not the military! :)
- usrusr 10y agoA.k.a. the most well armed constitutional court on the planet. Given the rate at which Erdogan has supposedly already replaced kemalists in the military leadership, i wonder if this might actually be a false flag operation to lure the last remaining critics into the light and in front of courts. That would certainly be an effective way to finally break any risk of armed defense of the constitution.
- mveety 10y agoI don't see how it's any different now for the army to seize power.
- chvid 10y ago(Or maybe it is ...) Isn't Erdogan noturious for consolidating his power by putting his people in all branches of government including the military? Is all of the military loyal to the coup makers? If the connections between Erdogan and Islamic State are real; then ousting Erdogan through a coup sends more powerful people, money, public sympathy in the way of IS.