Breaking - Is there a coup attempt in Turkey?

[Ooh-Rah]

Turkey coup: military attempt to seize power from Erdogan as low flying jets and gunfire heard in Ankara and bridges across Bosphorus in Istanbul closed

Turkish military in attempted coup, prime minister says

Attempted Military Coup Underway in Turkey

 

[Salt USMC]

Shit's nuts over there. Check out this jet doing a show of force over Ankara
Conflict News on Twitter

 

[Ooh-Rah]

Reuter's link:

Both of Istanbul's Bosphorus bridges closed: TVs

 

[BloodStripe]

A coup against Turkey’s increasingly erratic leader is in the cards

Edogan has been paranoid about this from happening that he took precautionary measures.

 

[Salt USMC]

Unconfirmed, but this tweet is saying that the Turkish military has taken over the government
Conflict News on Twitter

 

[RackMaster]

The Telegraph is reporting the military in control.

Turkey coup: military attempt to seize power from Erdogan as low flying jets and gunfire heard in Ankara and bridges across Bosphorus in Istanbul closed

 

[AWP]

Ugh, just like Thanksgiving, who wants to deal with leftover turkey?

 

[Salt USMC]

Am I the only one thinking "IT'S ABOUT FUCKING TIME"?

 

[Salt USMC]

Erdogan is skyping with Turkish news, saying he's still in control

Apparently he is in a plane circling Germany after being denied a landing request at Ataturk airport. He is requesting asylum from Angela Merkel.

 

[Florida173]

This is good news. He was a fucking dictator

 

[Brill]

Looks like social media is shut down there.

 

[Devildoc]

I hope it's not a case of the devil you know vs the devil you don't and the military-imposed government isn't even worse.

 

[Salt USMC]

I hope it's not a case of the devil you know vs the devil you don't and the military-imposed government isn't even worse.

Turkey has coups fairly often, usually by the military in order to reign in Islamist governments. Hell, their last one happened in 1997, and before that 1980. It's pretty frequent, and hopefully this one will bring Turkey's government back to secularism, at least for another 20 years or so.

 

[AWP]

This breaks my heart. A bad leader in a bad country is out of a job? Le roi est mort. Vive le roi.

#Erdogone

 

[Florida173]

 

[CQB]

Looking at live pics here & it's pretty fluid.
A sketchy report says 17 police killed by the military at reportedly SF HQ.

 

[Brill]

Twitter is going nuts.

Blackhawk downed, gunfire in streets, people protesting...

Search Twitter - #TurkeyCoup

Going to be a long night for Turks.

 

[snapt]

 

[DA SWO]

Shit's nuts over there. Check out this jet doing a show of force over Ankara
Conflict News on Twitter

Not like we don't do the same thing, letting people know who is in charge.

 

[Brill]

Not like we don't do the same thing, letting people know who is in charge.

Would have worked well Sep 2012.