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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.
I didn't think turkeys could fly the coup?
A coup in a non-trivial NATO nation would be interesting.
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Sounds like the goats are out for revenge.
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
From what I understand, Erdogan is out of the country, so clearly they timed this to prevent him from being up to directly marshal his forces. But it's still not clear as to whether this is a faction of the Army, or the bulk of it. From what I gather, the head of the Armed Forces has been detained, so it does sound like a large portion of the Army is backing the coup.
Something had to give sooner or later. Erdogan had flushed out most of the old guard, but there were likely a lot of mid-rank officers left who probably had pretty strong feelings about AKP. The Army has long viewed itself as the guarantors of Ataturk's reforms, and they've taken out uppety governments before. But to have this happen while ISIS is still merely dancing about Syria and Northern Iraq, and with Syria still a bloody mess, and with refugees flooding the country, well, this is a pretty unique set of circumstances.
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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
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.
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.
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One major factor might be that the "Ergenekon" network people were released in April. These are the people that Erdogan imprisoned on charges of conspiring to remove him from power but there was no evidence the plot even existed. The plot may not have existed, but he gave a hell of an incentive to create one.
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.
No, I doubt that greatly. The one thing Turkey has long been is very anti-Russian. The sentiments are very old, dating back to the Ottoman period. Erdogan has been pushing buttons for a few years now, and while everyone thought he had sufficiently emasculated the army to prevent a coup, clearly he had not.
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Bye bye Erdogan
Gone, gone the form of man. Rise, the Demon, Etrigan^W Erdogan!
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.
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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.
Not only that, military instability in Turkey could well result in major disruption to maritime traffic through the Bosporus - political treaties not withstanding - and the one country that stands to lose the most from that is Russia since the Black Sea contains all their western deep water ports that don't freeze up in winter. When you are engaged in a military campaign and propping up the regime of an ally in Syria the last thing you'd want do is to risk losing the ability to supply them by sea.
UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!
Euronews just played footage of the Turkish military firing at a crowd trying to clear a bridge in Istanbul. Damn.
A large portion of the army: yes! As they are citizens, too!
A large portion of the head of the army: no, as they are Erdogans cronies, too!
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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.
Glad they're finally flushing that dictator.
False Flag Operation, no comment on NATO nukes or US involvement.
When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail
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..
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Nope. The coup happened a few days after Russia and Turkey decided to normalize relations. It is more likely the United States is behind the coup because of Turkey's recent actions.
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Really sad that they failed. Everybody's scared of Erdogan.. and now that he's going o order dozens of summary executions fo this attemnpt he's essentially got the power of a dictator. Bye Bye to demokratiko Turkey!
I'm sure Russia could initiate a limited peacekeeping action to maintain order and provide humanitarian aid along the Bosporus and a small (200 mile) area either side of it.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."