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Military coup attempt in Turkey (4 Viewers)

It will be shades of us evacuating the embassy in Saigon if things continue this way. 

 
Now THIS is a country with reasons to be afraid of its leadership.  This dude is increasing his power and could really mess up Turkey for a long time.

 
I'm curious to see what the Trump administration does with Gulen.  Flynn has been critical of Gulen's status in the US and Trump may simply view him as a bargaining chip in his game of let's make a deal.

 
Eephus said:
I'm curious to see what the Trump administration does with Gulen.  Flynn has been critical of Gulen's status in the US and Trump may simply view him as a bargaining chip in his game of let's make a deal.
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Flynn has direct ties to the Turkish government.

I wouldn't be surprised one bit if they just hand him over.

 
"Turkey dismissed more than 90,000 public servants in post-coup purge: minister"

Turkish authorities have dismissed more than 90,000 public servants for alleged connections to a coup attempt in July as part of a purge critics say has broadened to target any political opposition to President Tayyip Erdogan.

Speaking to reporters at a roundtable interview broadcast on television, Labour Minister Mehmet Muezzinoglu said 125,485 people from the public service had been put through legal proceedings after the coup attempt, and that 94,867 of those had been dismissed so far.

Turkey has been rooting out followers of the U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom it accuses of having infiltrated state institutions and plotted to overthrow the government. Gulen, who has lived in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania since 1999, has denied the charge and condemned the coup.

Some 40,000 people from the police, the military, the judiciary, the civil service or the education system, have been remanded in custody pending trial for alleged connections with the coup attempt, during which at least 240 people were killed.

Emergency rule declared after the failed coup attempt enables the government to bypass parliament in enacting new laws and to limit or suspend rights and freedoms when deemed necessary.

Rights groups and some of Turkey's Western allies fear that President Tayyip Erdogan is using the coup as a pretext to stifle dissent, from state institutions to political parties.

NATO member Turkey has been hit by a spate bombings and shootings in the past year, claimed by Kurdish and Islamic State militants, on top of July's failed coup, in which soldiers commandeered tanks and fighter jets in a bid to seize power.
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Oklahoma City Thunder center Enes Kanter Says The Turkish Government Sent Police After Him In Indonesia

During a press conference this morning and an appearance on Outside The Lines, Thunder center Enes Kanter provided more details about his brief detainment in Romania yesterday.

Kanter was held at the airport in Romania by police officers after his passport was canceled by the Turkish government. In a video posted to his Twitter feed yesterday, Kanter explained that his passport had been canceled because he has been an outspoken critic of Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Kanter was eventually allowed to fly to London, and has since returned to the United States.

Today, he revealed that he only went to Romania in the first place because he was fleeing Indonesian police officers that had been sent after him by the Turkish government while he was hosting a basketball clinic in Jakarta. From ESPN:

"The Oklahoma City center was traveling internationally for his Enes Kanter Light Foundation and was in Indonesia, where he said his manager was approached by Indonesian “secret service and the army” looking for Kanter. Kanter said Indonesian authorities told his manager that the Turkish government had called and informed them that Kanter 'is a dangerous man and we need to talk to him.'

Kanter, who had been broadcasting his whereabouts on social media promoting his charity work with his foundation, said he and his manager fled to Singapore on the first flight out.

'We kind of escaped the country at 5:30 a.m. and we went to Singapore and then we went to Romania, and that is where the madness started,' Kanter said."

Kanter also spoke about the difficulties his family members back in Turkey have faced ever since he started speaking out against Erdogan:

Kanter says that he is now a man without a country, and hopes to become a United States citizen as soon as possible.

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