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Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube Blocked In Turkey During Reported Coup Attempt (techcrunch.com)
An anonymous reader writes: In response to an attempted military coup, the Turkish government has reportedly blocked social media sites including Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. TechCrunch reports: "Turkey Blocks, a Twitter account that regularly checks if sites are being blocked in the country, reported at 1:04 PM Pacific (11:04 PM Istanbul time) that Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube were all unresponsive, though Instagram and Vimeo remained available." Some Turkish users were able to update their social media accounts likely through a VPN or other anonymizing service. One user posted a video on Twitter that shows what appears to be a fighter jet flying very low over the Turkish capital of Ankara; another user has tweeted a video of a helicopter opening fire in Turkey. The Associated Press reports that Turkish prime minister, Binali Yildirim, has confirmed the coup by a group within Turkey's military. The following statement from the group was reportedly read on local television: "Turkish Armed Forces have completely taken over the administration of the country to reinstate constitutional order, human rights and freedoms, the rule of law and the general security that was damaged. All international agreements are still valid. We hope that all of our good relationships with all countries will continue."
UPDATE 7/15/16: Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has issued a statement in a FaceTime call to CNN Turk urging Turkish citizens to take to the streets to defend "Turkish democracy." He urges the Turkish people to convene at public squares and airports, saying there is no power higher than the power of the people.
UPDATE 7/15/16: Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has issued a statement in a FaceTime call to CNN Turk urging Turkish citizens to take to the streets to defend "Turkish democracy." He urges the Turkish people to convene at public squares and airports, saying there is no power higher than the power of the people.
Glad they're finally flushing that dictator.
I didn't think turkeys could fly the coup?
A coup in a non-trivial NATO nation would be interesting.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
Sounds like the goats are out for revenge.
i am in contact with some two ppl within turkey over facebook, they say blocked from time to time, and not sure for how long...
Heyo!
Muhammad is still fucking non-Muslims up the ass 1500 years later.
The Religion of Peace!
Look, if it was the US Army kicking Obama out, you'd be happy with it.
Late Friday afternoon when people are looking to the weekend. By they time they get back to work on Monday, everything will be in hand.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Not normally a fan of military coups, but Erdogan was a frickin' menace and had it coming. The Turkish military has always done a better job running that country then the politicians the Turks elect for themselves.
the growth in cynicism and rebellion has not been without cause
Look, if it was the US Army kicking Obama out, you'd be happy with it.
Don't tease me like that!!!
Recep Tayyip Erdoan has tried destroying the constitution and the spirit of ataturk's secular state of Turkey. This is a benevolent coup to restore the normal order of turkey, and has happened many times when dictators try to take the country a different way.
Not at all. That type of regime change is the worst. Almost guaranteed to have war spilling into the streets. Marshall Law etc...
Turkey has been through this before. They know the drill. Keep your head down, wait for the new constitution, and then back to normal. Rinse and repeat.
Perhaps the biggest mistake within and outside Turkey was assuming Erdogan's position was as secure as it seemed.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
Guess I'll have to jack off.
Just a theory: Putin stirred certain people and certain places and the coup happened.
Russians are spending truly monstrous amount of money to their intelligence service and to their agents. Since Erdogan, with all his flaws and corruption, was one of the leaders who said ***k you, Putin. Erdogan had it coming.
Why this theory has some credibility? The truth is that those who are observant could see that Putin's regime (just like Soviet's regime before him) is trying to have a voice and an influence, through either extreme right or extreme left movements in most of the key countries of the world. Erdogan did not play ball, thus he was a fair game in Russian's geopolitical games.
like fucking seriously
Since then they had a coup about once a decade.
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1960 one ended with hanging of Prime Minister, Minister of Labor and Finance and Minister of Foreign Affairs.
1980 one ended with 50 (official) executions and half a million arrests.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
What is the status of circumvention efforts? Radio, mesh, ISPs just outside the border, anything? I would like to know if anybody is providing assistance in getting the word in and out of the country.
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
If this is a genuine coup, the repercussions are going to be felt across the world. A lot of people might think that Turkey is some backwards country adjacent to Europe but, it's basically the bridge between the Middle East and Europe. It's a modern country with an advanced military and very close ties to almost all western countries. Middle Eastern immigrants almost inevitably travel through Turkey and their policies (for better or worse) play a huge role in determining how that happens. Chaos in Turkey is a BIG FUCKING DEAL. It's practically the worst possible place to have a coup.
In many societies, the military is driven by the middle class and when government becomes too 'oppressive', the part of the middle class with guns and authority takes charge of their self-indulgent masters. As a form of check and balance, maybe Thailand doesn't have enough coups since the political corruption never ends. But Fiji definitely has too many coups, driven by some assumed attack on their class.
Marshall Law etc...
Marshall Law? Sounds like a HIMYM spinoff.
Marshall Law
Is he related to Judge Dredd? Or were you referring to martial law?
Just moments ago. Seems it was promptly rejected.
...the reddit thread is running a higher signal-to-noise ratio than this one.
... and I hope the military wins and reestablishes a working Kemalism.
Erdogan was a huge leap backwards for Turkey. They need to reestablish secularism and seperation of power.
And new rules and a new democratic election.
Keep your fingers crossed.
My thoughts and hopes are with Turkey now. Yours should be too.
My 2 Eurocents.
We suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca
The military there have done this sort of thing before, and they are or at least were very staunch defenders of Ataturk's vision for a secular Turkey. Erdogan, by contrast, is a tin pot dictator who totally had it coming. In his own words, "Democracy is like a train: when you reach your destination, you get off." His destination is that of an islamic Turkey. He has said so often enough, you can see it in his policies, there is no doubt about it.
Well, he just got thrown off the train for making a right mess of things, and good riddance. I sincerely hope so, at any rate.
It hopefully opens the door, to, say, Turkey supporting the Kurds fighting IS, who're so far the only effective ones, and could do without Turkey bombing them in turn. We too needed that to stop, so this is a step in the right direction. We, the European people, also very much need Turkey to be secular, that with the eurocrats bent on getting Turkey to join up in all but a name. (Well, not entirely: Erdogan was blackmailing them with his supposed power to stop the refugee flood for easy access to the EU for his muslim hordes, and they let themselves be hauled over the barrel. But that's another story.)
Anyway, for now I cautiously see this as a positive development. But of course the proof of the pudding is in the eating. Let's see what they do next.
Euronews just played footage of the Turkish military firing at a crowd trying to clear a bridge in Istanbul. Damn.
It's spelled marshmallow.
Likely not. But the world would be better off without Putin and Erdogan.
The danger in our world is not "Terrorism" but the people behind it.
Cost free eBook I read (by iBook/Kobo/Amazon/ObookO/Gutenberg etc.): "The Green Odyssey" by Philip Jose Farmer.
And quite a few of them are big enough to be scary to larger predators, and can fly up into the trees (Like I've seen them leap and fly into 40 ft trees before, up into the upper branches.)
From what I've heard, a few of them have even leaped from said trees and attacked people passing by. If they got any more aggressive they would be a major menace in some areas out here. As it is they are mostly an ecological disaster and a nuisance around here.
It's a bit ironic that he wants people to gather in public to defend his leadership when he didn't have problems with using force to get rid of peaceful protesters in the past few years, f.ex. in Gezi Park 2013 or last month at the gay pride parade in Istanbul.
The government of Turkey is trying to rally the people by using the media to demonize the military? While he is blocking websites?
The people should thank the military for getting rid of a tyrannical government. Overreach by government ends in that government (employees of tax payers) dying over and over throughout history.
In America, the government already robbed the public blindly and spent it on electronic surveillance thinking they were smarter than those in the past. tsk tsk Murica
As usual Belgian Turks are rioting in the streets here in my village of a few thousands. Police can't control the situation, several cars have been destroyed, the mosque is constantly broadcasting Turkish messages which seem to incite even more hatred towards everything that is not Turkish, especially the police and the cars of the average working people are the main target.
This has been going on for a few hours. I've already lost my sleep after the attacks in Nice, when the same kind of people where cheering for yet another successful attack on Western values. Now they see a Turkish military coup again as a western plan. The inhabitants of a mid sized village in Belgium that have welcomed many immigrants from all over the world are the evil, privileged that have to be punished for something that happens in Turkey... Thanks for this enriching multicultural experiment.... and please keep looking away, dear leaders.
What is happening? Are our European leaders just ignorant or are they having a plan and see this as collateral damage, or do they really want to destroy our Humanist-Christian society out of white guilt? Extreme right is in almost every country the biggest party. And everything that's happening and the usual 'we condemn all violence' reaction while doing nothing and looking away will make extreme right stronger and stronger.
Helicopters firing into crowds and the intelligence building http://www.liveleak.com/view?i... http://www.liveleak.com/view?i... Tanks running over people, killing many - crazy stuff..
Insert signature here...
WKRP "As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly"
so he could come out of it as the big winner and have a good excuse to kill adversaries
Regardless of the president, you know good and well, the elitist in DC that control this country, have an "off" switch to turn off pretty much anything they want.