Turkey

[Professor Toffee]

you could say that about parts of this country not so long ago

And scarily may again, if things go bad over the next few years

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

To be piped down, we hope. God save the Queen.

Your first for the Guilotine!

 

[Deleted member 28206]

Wheres Turkey Damo, is that in Murica?

Just past Muslimtown

 

[dandydan]

Wasn't Turkey a major customer for the oil ISIS were able to produce?

 

[tsubaki]

Wasn't Turkey a major customer for the oil ISIS were able to produce?

IIRC them and the Syrian Government were the biggest purchasers of that commodity, the Russians alleged a while back that either Erdogans son or his son-in-law was involved.

 

[bizzaro]

Hope that this coup succeeds. Provided it reestablishes the principles of Ataturk.

Turkey was going backward and incidents like this:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/02/turkish-journalists-accuse-erdogan-of-media-witch-hunt

2nd May 2016:

The editor of Cumhuriyet, one of the last remaining bastions of media opposition to Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, had appeared in court that morning over a documentary he produced on government corruption. It is one of two cases against him – in February, he was released from prison pending a spying trial over a story on arms shipments to Syria.

“Turkey has never been a paradise for journalists but of course not a hell like this,” he said in an interview in his office. “Nowadays being a journalist is much more dangerous than ever and needs courage and self-confidence.

It’s a kind of witch-hunt ... like McCarthyism in the US in the 1950s.”

Turkish journalists say local media outlets are facing one of the worst crackdowns on press freedoms since military rule in the 1980s. Prosecutors have opened close to 2,000 cases of insults to the president since Erdoğan took office in 2014, prominent journalists appear in court two or three times a week, Kurdish journalists are beaten or detained in the country’s restive south-east and foreign journalists have been harassed or deported."

 

[Deleted member 28206]

Wasn't Turkey a major customer for the oil ISIS were able to produce?

Turkey have a coup every 20 years or so. This isn't a new thing. The historians (LOL) will say otherwise.

 

[Darth Vader]

Hate the Turks

 

[tsubaki]

Hope that this coup succeeds. Provided it reestablishes the principles of Ataturk.

Turkey was going backward and incidents like this:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/02/turkish-journalists-accuse-erdogan-of-media-witch-hunt

2nd May 2016:

The editor of Cumhuriyet, one of the last remaining bastions of media opposition to Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, had appeared in court that morning over a documentary he produced on government corruption. It is one of two cases against him – in February, he was released from prison pending a spying trial over a story on arms shipments to Syria.

“Turkey has never been a paradise for journalists but of course not a hell like this,” he said in an interview in his office. “Nowadays being a journalist is much more dangerous than ever and needs courage and self-confidence.

It’s a kind of witch-hunt ... like McCarthyism in the US in the 1950s.”

Turkish journalists say local media outlets are facing one of the worst crackdowns on press freedoms since military rule in the 1980s. Prosecutors have opened close to 2,000 cases of insults to the president since Erdoğan took office in 2014, prominent journalists appear in court two or three times a week, Kurdish journalists are beaten or detained in the country’s restive south-east and foreign journalists have been harassed or deported."

Ataturk was probably the greatest leader of the first half of the 20th century; what he did for that country was incredible, even more so when one considers the era in which he lived and what was going on all around Turkey for quite a lot of the time. Every leader should be able to find something in his principles to emulate, not just every Turkish one.

 

[rascal]

I'll hold my hands up on this one. I don't know what's going on.

 

[Kiwi]

madness

 

[bizzaro]

Ataturk was probably the greatest leader of the first half of the 20th century; what he did for that country was incredible, even more so when one considers the era in which he lived and what was going on all around Turkey for quite a lot of the time. Every leader should be able to find something in his principles to emulate, not just every Turkish one.

Turkey and the turkish military faces islamic insurgencies on one side.

To Erdogan authoritarism and anti secularism.

And rampant Brexit xenophobia on the other... (joke comments from some earlier in this thread)


So they've finally snapped and decided that theres been too great a deviation from the principles of Ataturk - whom and which they have sworn to protect.

 

[dublinbluenose]

Just hope Helen Chamberlain is ok

#prayforhellsbells

 

[dandydan]

I'll hold my hands up on this one. I don't know what's going on.

nip to morrisons and fill your car up to be on the safe side. This could make oil prices shoot up.

 

[Donald Twain]

Possibly Cromwellian England.

Not really.