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The Grand Turk
Post-coup Turkey
2016-07-20
[DAWN] WHILE last weekend’s abortive coup in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
 highlighted the fragile nature of democracy in that country, the aftermath will have long-term consequences if the government chooses to act in anger and ignores the demands of justice.

So far, thousands of soldiers, including 112 generals and admirals, have been suspended or locked away
Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up!
 in what obviously is a purge of the armed forces. In addition, an astonishing number of police personnel, estimated at nearly 9,000, and a large number of judges, have been sacked, with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him...
 pledging to obliterate the ’virus’ responsible for the attempted putsch.
Yippie has moved rather quickly against the 10,000, hasn't he? Almost as if the lists had been drawn up well in advance...
The brains behind the failed coup had focused on the personality of Mr Erdogan and appeared determined to oust him even if it meant eliminating him physically. But that should not colour his view of the situation.

The eyes of the world are on Turkey, a country bordering Syria, hosting 2.7 million refugees, facing a renewed Kurdish insurgency and having problems with the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
 on the refugee trek.

Such a situation demands a commitment to democracy and due process rather than moves to revive the death penalty -- something EU leaders have denounced in strong terms.

The military clique responsible for the night attack on democracy must, no doubt, face the law, but the government shouldn’t give the impression that it is using the traumatic events of July 14-15 as a cover to crush all dissent. Instead, the suspects should be tried in a manner where the judicial process conforms to international standards.

America and EU leaders have cautioned Ankara against "retribution", and German Chancellor Angela Merkel
...current chancellor of Germany. She was educated in East Germany when is was still run by commies, but in 1989 got involved with the growing democracy movement when the Berlin Wall fell. Merkel is sometimes referred to by Germans as Mom...
 has criticised the "revolting scenes of caprice and Dire Revenge" against soldiers in the streets.
Posted by:Fred

#3  Kinda like the FBI and their bar patrons.
Posted by: Skidmark   2016-07-20 16:17  

#2  An old, perhaps apocryphal, Russian joke:
"When nine men sit down to talk revolution eight are informants of the Okhrana and the ninth is a fool!"
Posted by: magpie   2016-07-20 16:09  

#1  Anybody with a sense of history knows this script. This was the Reichstag fire.

These sub-humans do not understand how the people stand at our side.

Adolf or Erdogan, you figure it out.
Posted by: OldSpook   2016-07-20 15:10  

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