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Massive Power Outage Paralyzes Turkey
wiredmikey writes: A massive power outage caused chaos and shut down public transport across Turkey on Tuesday, with the government refusing to rule out that the electricity system had been the victim of an attack. The nationwide power cut, the worst in 15 years, began shortly after 10:30 am (0730 GMT) in Istanbul, the state-run Anatolia news agency quoted the Turkey Electricity Transmission Company (TEIAS) as saying. Energy Minister Taner Yildiz said the authorities were investigating whether the power outage was due to a technical failure or cyber-attack. "It is too early to say now if it is because of a technical reason, a manipulation, a faultplay, an operational mistake, or a cyber (attack). We are looking into it... We cannot say they are excluded possibilities."
Turkey is no longer what you sarcastically try to claim it is. Edrogan is actively working to turn that country back into the Ottoman shithole it was by eroding the very democracy and secular principles that's made it strong. He's destroyed the independent judiciary. He's about 80% destroyed local governments and NGOs and he's begun the press and free association clamp down. Free speech has also been targeted, directly and indirectly and he's putting religion back into the public school with state control and corruption is rampant.
By the time he's dead Turkey is going to be the same Islamic shithole the rest of the middle east is. Free thinking and acting people don't show proper "respect" to the theology and that can't be allowed. All over the middle east secular leaders and advocates are being murdered (often without consequences for the murderer) publicly and often very violently. Once the people that favor a secular government are scared into silence the Imams can make a directly play for power and take their seat at the head of society, as the believe they are entitled. Turkey is rapidly moving in this direction and it won't be long before people speaking out for secular principles are jailed or murdered for insulting either the leadership or Islam. It's already illegal to "insult" Erdogan.