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To be fair though, Turkey doesn't have any countries around it that it can invade without getting stomped by either Russia or the rest of NATO. IMO, a coup can
by hx87 10y ago
To be fair though, Turkey doesn't have any countries around it that it can invade without getting stomped by either Russia or the rest of NATO.
IMO, a coup can be justified if those that carry it out a) will be better governors than those they overthrew and b) they have popular legitimacy. By that standard, a Reichswehr coup in 1933 would have been justified, but the half-assed Turkish coup that has just happened wouldn't.
- greedo 10y agoWhat do you call Syria and Iraq?
- dragonwriter 10y ago> What do you call Syria and Iraq? A client state of Russia and a client state of the United States, respectively, which is why neither is a country Turkey can invade without repercussions from Russia or "the rest of NATO" (or, at least, the US, which is pretty much the bulk of the military power of NATO.) And while Iraq's status as a US client state may seem somewhat questionable, Iraqi Kurdistan is more tightly aligned with the US than the central government is, and may well vote soon on independence and is the part -- for both geographic and political reasons -- that one is talking about when one talks about Turkey invading Iraq.