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We were first confused about why coup was incredibly terrible. Starting it with a tank on the Istanbul bridge instead of easily picking up Erdogan from the hote
by anonymousturk 10y ago
We were first confused about why coup was incredibly terrible. Starting it with a tank on the Istanbul bridge instead of easily picking up Erdogan from the hotel he is staying in a vacation town; Not destroying Erdogan's palace; Doing some symbolic things on prime time hours instead of 2am; Having no direction or aim other than making some show with tanks and airplanes.
Now, it is very clear to everyone that it was a fake coup. So that Erdogan can do his regime change without getting any resistance. Anyone who is against is a coup supporter and will be dumped to tens of thousands of people on the prisons, after getting beaten up by Islamist running around.
One of the significant changes he has made was to make mosques a part of the new regime. Mosques are now doing they have never done since the establishment of republic 90 years ago. The mosques are now constantly making announcement and telling Erdogan's people to "go outside and hunt coup supporters for the love of god".
A civil war has started but we don't know it yet. I hope I am wrong.
- ajmurmann 10y agoWhat happens if there is no civil war? The bad guys win without a civil war?
- cloudjacker 10y agothe winners write blurbs in their history books about how they squashed the rebellion of unsophisticated farmers
- hx87 10y agoExcept in this case the ruling party's base is largely "unsophisticated farmers".
- kyriakos 10y agoIt's not a civil war unless two groups of people are clashing. In this case it seems that the opposition has been dismantled and it's members are being hunted down. What's the response from the opposition parties? I hope you are already planning to leave the country cause from what you're saying it's going to get uglier.