GuyFawkes:


Nah bro Turkey won't descend into a civil war.

The writing have been all over the wall for ages, It is only a matter of time.

Mindfulness:


Before any misunderstandings arise, I do not in any way support Erdogan. He does not represent the kind of government I would want for myself and family. However, has he not been democratically elected not so long ago?

As for the 'best news of the year', time will show. I pray there will be no civil war.

my broda I prefer full blown military rule to half baked democracy edrogan shud be arrested tied at the stake and summarily executed

Buhari has deployed Nigerian Navy to go restore peace in Turkey...

Slymonster:
CNN don see food tire,from France to Turkey lol

our naija boys doing Street there...safe oo lol

Hmmmmmm

Time will tell

chidozieikeji2:
my broda I prefer full blown military rule to half baked democracy edrogan shud be arrested tied at the stake and summarily executed

Will the military rule have the best interest of the people at heart?

GuyFawkes:


Well you're right, I'm guessing they must have had intelligence Erdogan was gonna get the boot. 
Well it presents a dilemma to NATO as Richard Haas said "Do you support non-democratic coup Vs increasingly non-democratic leader" has to be the latter with Egypt as a case study.
Lol Erdogan is asking people to take to the streets, imagine the irony

The Eygpt scenario will play out again. Some pro military guy who is secular and pro west will be in charge very soon. Maybe a former military guy.

If he was less Islamic, there wont be any incentive for the military to be involved and the west would have been forced to tolorate most of his not so NATO- like policies.

I heard he was on facetime and currently trying to get assylum in Germany.

Watching it now. It's very sad that this is happening in a supposedly European country.

Missy89:
Gulenists want to make Turkey secular again. The military have always been secular. It was a matter of when

*white flag*
Are you CIA?

Please don't send your drones. #honestquestion

NairaMinted:
Sultan Erdogan fanboys, where are thou?

Erdogan's plate was full: repression of the press and heavy handed crackdown on freedom of speech, providing aid jihadists in Syria and Iraq and allowing them free unhindered access through Turkey, illegal cross border incursions into Syria and Iraq, the genocidal crackdown on Kurds where several Kurish cities were wiped out, shooting down a Russian jet which in turn tanked the economy when Russian tourists stopped visiting and the general instability that Erdogan's actions brought upon his country are all possible reasons why these brave military officers have staged this coup

Erdogan's apology to Putin and his move to seek a detente in relations with Russia and step back from his ill-advised and delusional goals came too late. Good riddance!

CC: Zoharariel, Appleyard, Scully95

As you make your bed, so you must lie on it. He had it coming. Its practically game over now for Erdogan.. The ghost of the SU-24, the destruction done to Syria, and the countless memebers of the opposition killed and imprisoned in Turkey, are all haunting and crying for vengeance against Turkey meat Erdogan. The confrontation with Russia was something that has also caused a divide among the top echelon of the Turkish military, and the sanctions that later followed further added fuel to the fire. You easily don't find replacemeant for 3million tourists. I told those terrorist apologist down here that, Erdogan just fired an air to missile against himself, and now, we are seeing the accumulative effect of his daredevil politicking. I will not be surprise if Russia or the US is involved in this. Don't forget he even tried to blackmailed the US.

Now, even if the coup didn't succeed, the fact has now be laid that, Erdogan is now a want away terrorist and authoritarian despot. The future for him now is one hell of uncertainty.

How Assad must be smiling now, while watching event from Damascus. Two evil Rulers that wanted to kill his legitimate government, chanting the Assad must go slogan, have been slapped back by payback, within a month. David Cameron has now officially packed out of number 10, downing street, and now Erdogan. This just reminds me of the saying that, man proposes, but God disposes. God shall continue to expose and dispose of all them that want Syria to be another failed state like Libya and Iraq, in Jesus name, amen.

I seriously doubt putin's hand is in this. If you check the news you'll find out that obama's relationship with erdogan has been strained.

This coup has obama written all over it. If indeed obama is involved i personally think this is the boldest thing he has ever done.

As in who gave obama the 'balls' to do this to a fellow NATO state. But lets watch and see events are still unfolding.

ellacute45:
Hmmmmmm unbelievable

Are you in Turkey?

NairaMinted:
Sultan Erdogan fanboys, where are thou?

Erdogan's plate was full: repression of the press and heavy handed crackdown on freedom of speech, providing aid jihadists in Syria and Iraq and allowing them free unhindered access through Turkey, illegal cross border incursions into Syria and Iraq, the genocidal crackdown on Kurds where several Kurish cities were wiped out, shooting down a Russian jet which in turn tanked the economy when Russian tourists stopped visiting and the general instability that Erdogan's actions brought upon his country are all possible reasons why these brave military officers have staged this coup

Erdogan's apology to Putin and his move to seek a detente in relations with Russia and step back from his ill-advised and delusional goals came too late. Good riddance!

CC: Zoharariel, Appleyard, Scully95

Somwhow , you found a way to drag putin into this.
As you rightly stated Erdogan's attempt to stifle opposition, support for jihadis
and its backdoor Islamization of turkish society will be responsible for his downfall not putin.

If the coup succeeds then it's good riddance to that autocratic closet terrorist.

Now let's see how the chess game between Russia and US plays out.

Mindfulness:


Are you saying that the Turkish people were not able to distinguish a democrat from an autocrat and see through the masquerading?

I think it depends on how you want to see it. He was actually quite popular. But the sometimes you have to manage your base as a leader and be able to balance it with the remaining party of the society.

The only reason Turkey has been sucessfull economically has been the tradition of being secular than the rest of the islamic majority states in the middle east and that has been the brain child of the military.

But Erdogan's base is the islamists that are not very moderate.

So he is kind of like a guy that can win an election in a divided country with competing ideologies so it was all a matter of time.

Missy89:
Gulenists want to make Turkey secular again. The military have always been secular. It was a matter of when

The Gulen movement is not a secular movement. It is a religious movement. Glen himself is a religious cleric.

Anything that will increase the price of crude oil

tbaba1234:


The Gulen movement is not a secular movement. It is a religious movement. Glen himself is a religious cleric.

He is a moderate cleric

JoeCutie:
Are you in Turkey?

Noo

Another Putin victory.

Putin stays blitzing them.

What a year!! 2016 will go down as one of the most eventful year ever - and we're just half-way through.

Merkel, give Erdogan the asylum he's begging for.

NairaMinted:
Sultan Erdogan fanboys, where are thou?

Erdogan's plate was full: repression of the press and heavy handed crackdown on freedom of speech, providing aid jihadists in Syria and Iraq and allowing them free unhindered access through Turkey, illegal cross border incursions into Syria and Iraq, the genocidal crackdown on Kurds where several Kurish cities were wiped out, shooting down a Russian jet which in turn tanked the economy when Russian tourists stopped visiting and the general instability that Erdogan's actions brought upon his country are all possible reasons why these brave military officers have staged this coup

Erdogan's apology to Putin and his move to seek a detente in relations with Russia and step back from his ill-advised and delusional goals came too late. Good riddance!

On point!

And I love that you mentioned Putin at the very end because he is the least important factor that led to this coup.

Just wait for T.b joshua to start saying he saw this one

Appleyard:



I told those terrorist apologist down here that, Erdogan just fired an air to missile against himself, and now, we are seeing the accumulative effect of his daredevil politicking. I will not be surprise if Russia or the US is involved in this. Don't forget he even tried to blackmailed the US.

@Appleyard of Moskow - Missy89 is currently singing a new song. She said she knew this would happen.

Idrismusty97:
That is what you get after shooting down a Russian plane and running like a squealing pig to NATO for protection. Sadly this is the end of Turkey, The coup would empower the PKK, The Kurds, and other sects that have been oppressed by the Erdogan regime. The military may likely have the support of Russia and Erdogan faction(If he have any) will have the support of the West and ISIS. It would be a whole repeat of the Syria war that lasted more than 4 years. Let's see if Erdogan would be labelled a tyrant by the West like they labelled Assad.

This has nothing to do with downing Russian plane and turkey will not descend into civil war,
since ataturk , the turkish military have always pride itself as defenders of secular democracy, it
is disregard for the constitution and erdogan's backdoor islamization policy that is responsible
for this coup.

Missy89:


I think it depends on how you want to see it. He was actually quite popular. But the sometimes you have to manage your base as a leader and be able to balance it with the remaining party of the society.

The only reason Turkey has been sucessfull economically has been the tradition of being secular than the rest of the islamic majority states in the middle east and that has been the brain child of the military.

But Erdogan's base is the islamists that are not very moderate.

So he is kind of like a guy that can win an election in a divided country with competing ideologies so it was all a matter of time.

It takes more to be economically successful than simply being secular or not.
Saudi Arabia is not secular, is it?

majekdom2:
Anything that will increase the price of crude oil

Oil rises after apparent military uprising in Turkey http://www.cnbc.com/2016/07/14/oil-falls-as-glut-fears-return-china-data-eyed.html

Check out what i saw on google. The link won't open but it indicates this has been in the works for quite a while.

gemale:
if d military succeeds in its coup, it portends a big conundrum 4 US military ops against ISIS. Dey cant openly support d overthrow of a democratically elected govt hence dey wld hv 2 withdraw their bases 4rm turkey. dis 1 dt erdogen cant b contacted, i hope say dem neva off am.

Ha ha ha.
I'm laughing.

Well, if you can recall a similar situation in Egypt not too long ago, all the US has to do is to fiddle with the semantics a bit , by say, calling it " an unanticipated transition" , but not a coup.

In geopolitics, duplicity and ambiguity is the name of the game. No one plays it better than the US.

In fact, John Kerry has already spoken, and has surreptitiously telegraphed the US support for the this " unanticipated transition".

Rather than condemn the coup outrightly as would have been expected of a big Ally of Turkey, he was somewhat circumspect when he said " we look forward to restoration of peace and continuity".

That tells the whole story.

daniska3yaro:
Putin,I know his silence will cough out something deadly,he loves the art of using illusion to do things,war is not only fought by weapons bt by strategist ideas.
The new order is falling pieces by pieces.

Don't be too happy, if this coup was foreign influenced , then it is definitely western-backed
not Russia, Erdogan has been dictating to Europe since the refugee crisis and they will be
more than happy to have a friendlier person in power.

Mindfulness:


It takes more to be economically successful than simply being secular or not.
Saudi Arabia is not secular, is it?

Takes more than that but you cant compare both countries thou. Turkey is way more advance than saudi Arabia. Not even in the same league.

JuanDeDios:

I always wondered how he got away with it for so long.

Because he has powerful friends.