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The Turkish military has a long history of executing a coup and then returning control to a new civilian government. While military coups often lead to military
by waterphone 10y ago
The Turkish military has a long history of executing a coup and then returning control to a new civilian government. While military coups often lead to military dictatorships, that has not been the case in Turkey, and it is in fact one of the established roles of the Turkish military to do so.
> Turkish Armed Forces see themselves as the guardians of the secular and unitary nature of the Republic along with Atatürk's reforms and have intervened by taking over the government three times. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Turkey#Influence_of_the_military https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Turkey#Influen...
- baudehlo 10y agoBut after this, will that ever be allowed to happen again? This coup, false flag or not, has spelled the end of that control.
- waterphone 10y agoProbably not. My only point was that in Turkey, a coup does not necessarily mean a military dictatorship. Which people apparently disagree with despite the facts and downvote me angrily for saying. This fucking site, man.
- baudehlo 10y agoThis site is better than most - I gave you an upvote to show that :)
- abrookewood 10y agoMaybe it was just the way you said it. Keep posting facts and maintain a reasonable disposition and I think you'll find that the debates on HN are informative and positive. It certainly beats most of the other sites I can think of.