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Turkey rounds up plot suspects after thwarting coup against Erdogan
- fweespeech 10y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12105319 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12105319 So it looks like it is playing out as expected: > Ten members of the High Council of Judges and Prosecutors and two members of the Constitutional Court have already been detained, officials said. > Authorities also began a major crackdown in the judiciary over suspected links to U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, removing from their posts and ordering the detention of nearly 3,000 prosecutors and judges, including from top courts. > The government declared the situation under control, saying 2,839 people had been rounded up, from foot soldiers to senior officers, including those who formed "the backbone" of the rebellion. While I don't buy the people saying it was staged...its pretty clear Erdogan is going to use this to purge his enemies, both within the military and outside of it. So this is really going to suck for Turkey. :/
- internaut 10y agoI notice that the pro-Government celebrations are using the ISIS hand sign. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISIS'_index_finger_signal?previous=yes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISIS'_index_finger_signal?prev... http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=313_1468660053 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=313_1468660053 It is a commitment to the ideology of ISIS specifically. I reiterate: specifically. This all has the character of something about to go horribly wrong. You must ask yourself what the connection is between the mosques being used to call pro-government supporters into the streets and the secular purge in one of the branches of government. I was born and raised in a cult and I recognize the signs of it, most especially the doubt that outsiders have that the religious believers really believe what they say they do. Believe me when I say they do.