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He was reportedly on holiday in Turkey in Marmaris, so maybe they did not know where he was or did not have the man power to capture him. I wonder how it would
by tobias3 10y ago
He was reportedly on holiday in Turkey in Marmaris, so maybe they did not know where he was or did not have the man power to capture him.
I wonder how it would have played out if they had captured him. I can even imagine that more people would have protested.
- einrealist 10y agoIts funny how Putin and Erdogan were meeting a couple of days ago. Maybe Erdogan was warned and took "a vacation"?
- adventured 10y agoIt was widely noted in the media that France closed its Turkish embassy (on "security fears") two days prior to this. It certainly makes you wonder if the word didn't get out.
- ChristianBundy 10y agoIt's important to remember that those "security fears" were in reference to Bastille Day.
- int_19h 10y agoDeliberately timing coups for when the standing leader is on vacation is actually not all that uncommon, because it makes it possible to contain them under pretense of normalcy. E.g. Gorbachev in 1991, where they basically locked him up in his Crimean residence.