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  • Coup.
  • CaptainFlashheart
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    Turkey.

    Holy shitballs.

    Nobeerinthefridge
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    Ooft.

    bongohoohaa
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    To be fair, if I had to listen to Erdogan’s squeaky voice all the time, I’d have done the same.

    deadlydarcy
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    Isn’t Turkey joining the EU next week? Maybe we they should re-think that.

    rmacattack
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    drama

    ninfan
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    Dagnamit – beaten at the post by flash while I got the F16 video 😀

    [video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOT1tDOBVCw[/video]

    allthepies
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    Shouldn’t it be a chicken coop ?

    CaptainFlashheart
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    Isn’t Turkey joining the EU next week?

    Turxin?

    pondo
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    What in the wide, wide world of sport is going on with the world?

    teamhurtmore
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    Good job we have a seasoned and measured foreign secretary, oh eck wait a minute.

    deadkenny
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    Co-op Turkey?

    bongohoohaa
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    Looks like BoJo is going to have to organise a conciliatory game of rugger, to sort this one.

    Klunk
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    Nato to the rescue, err who’s side though 😕

    thegreatape
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    Boris could pen a nice calming poem.

    Nobeerinthefridge
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    Boris couldn’t go near turkey with that blond mop, he’d get shagged senseless from da yoot. Hopefully.

    wrecker
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    The importance of having a well disciplined pet bear…..

    kimbers
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    Bojos only been in the job a day. What’s that buffoon gone and done ?

    CaptainFlashheart
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    Nato to the rescue, err who’s side though

    Oddly, the military are the “moderates”, I believe. Erdogan isn’t.

    pondo
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    Dagnamit – beaten at the post by flash while I got the F16 video

    Crazy video though, d’you think it meant to go that low? You should repost it in here. 🙂 EDIT Glad you posted it in here. 🙂

    rmacattack
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    turksit

    deadlydarcy
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    a chicken coop ?

    Chickens working together for the common good?

    (Tbh, trying to rescue you from the embarrassment at such an obvious joke.)

    wrecker
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    Official statement from the Turkish Armed Forces says it has taken over the government.

    Apparently they have the airport, the border between turk and asia and the state broadcaster.

    bruneep
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    Coup, a fine scots word = Rubbish dump

    “This bedrooms like a coup”

    somafunk
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    Oooh!, a mate flew out to Ankara earlier this week – I’ll try and get in touch with him to see whats happening.

    squirrelking
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    Good luck, seemingly the internet has been cut as well.

    Nice to see people can make light of what could be another night of violence and bloodshed. Stay classy.

    Nobeerinthefridge
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    Can I use the word ‘junta’ yet?. I like that word.

    Jumping the gun a bit there SK. Let’s hope you are anyway.

    wrecker
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    Nice to see people can make light of what could be another night of violence and bloodshed.

    No evidence of that yet, but it could be quite an important event. Historic perhaps. It is Fascinating, lets hope it’s bloodless.

    ernie_lynch
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    thegreatape – Member

    Boris could pen a nice calming poem.

    This was our Foreign Secretary’s great-grandfather :

    Ali Kemal

    All Boris Johnson needs is a fez and his wit to calm everyone down.

    ninfan
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    It does look like Boris backed the right pony though 🙂

    Nobeerinthefridge
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    Does it?

    jambalaya
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    OMFG 😯 😯

    If Edrogen is gone then thats a good result in itself. However a military coup even with the Prime Minister’s assistance isn’t exactly the ideal outcome.

    Turkey is a NATO member FFS.

    On a side note our friends on holiday in Turkey have said occupancy is 20-50% versus expected near 100% at this time of year. This was mainly around terrorism concerns but a military coup isn’t going to help.

    We shall have to see how the US and EU responds. Major major development

    kimbers
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    The Turkish military is of one of our best customers

    2nd largest army in NATO after the USA
    We sell them….

    military communications equipment
    small arms ammunition
    components for:
    armoured personnel carriers
    artillery ammunition
    combat aircraft
    combat helicopters
    general military vehicles
    large calibre artillery ammunition
    military combat vehicles
    tanks
    unmanned air vehicles
    weapon control systems
    weapon day and night sights
    technology for the development of:
    air-to-surface missiles
    military surveillance aircraft

    NATO also lets them keep some nukes

    What could possibly go wrong

    jambalaya
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    £ figure Kmbers ?

    jambalaya
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    This is best watched full screen for subtitles – hat tip to @alpin

    [video]https://youtu.be/R2e2yHjc_mc[/video]

    This song I lked too Soundcloud

    matt_outandabout
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    Doesn’t US have a military base or two in Turkey?

    And Syria with Russia next door?

    fin25
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    Traditionally in Turkey, the military have positioned themselves as the custodians of secular democracy. Previous coups have been in response to governments lurching away from the more moderate path. I hope this follows that tradition.

    ernie_lynch
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    Apparently after the 1980 coup :

    650,000 people were under arrest.
    1,683,000 people were blacklisted.
    230,000 people were tried in 210,000 lawsuits.
    7,000 people were recommended for the death penalty.
    517 persons were sentenced to death.
    50 of those given the death penalty were executed (26 political prisoners, 23 criminal offenders and 1 ASALA militant).
    The files of 259 people, which had been recommended for the death penalty, were sent to the National Assembly.
    71,000 people were tried by articles 141, 142 and 163 of Turkish Penal Code.
    98,404 people were tried on charges of being members of a leftist, a rightist, a nationalist, a conservative, etc. organization.
    388,000 people were denied a passport.
    30,000 people were dismissed from their firms because they were suspects.
    14,000 people had their citizenship revoked.
    30,000 people went abroad as political refugees.
    300 people died in a suspicious manner.
    171 people died by reason of torture.
    937 films were banned because they were found objectionable.
    23,677 associations had their activities stopped.
    3,854 teachers, 120 lecturers and 47 judges were dismissed.
    400 journalists were recommended a total of 4,000 years imprisonment.
    Journalists were sentenced 3,315 years and 6 months imprisonment.
    31 journalists went to jail.
    300 journalists were attacked.
    3 journalists were shot dead.
    300 days in which newspapers were not published.
    303 cases were opened for 13 major newspapers.
    39 tonnes of newspapers and magazines were destroyed.
    299 people lost their lives in prison.
    144 people died in a suspicious manner in prison.
    14 people died in hunger strikes in prison.
    16 people were shot while fleeing.
    95 people were killed in combat.
    “Natural death report” for 73 persons was given.
    The cause of death of 43 people was announced as “suicide”.

    thegreatape
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    This was our Foreign Secretary’s great-grandfather

    🙂

    fin25
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    OK Ernie, I stand corrected

    wrecker
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    1980 is a long time ago.

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