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  1. It's all very strange. From the news coverage I saw it seem like a pretty limp wristed affair for a military coup...

    i think it is kind of fake thing...

    all theatrical... :)

    police arresting the soldiers?.. soldiers of the turkish army?.. this is desperately funny!.. and so dangerous

    ...

    military is the secular wing of Turkey. Since his first day, Erdo wanted to get rid of the army. And slowly, he did it. He "muted" the military.

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    erdo needed this fake militarist act;
    he called upon his "people" to the streets; to the airport... :/ to save him!..

    Now; tomorrow we're gonna see the headlines: people of erdo saved their beloved president!
    ...

    this military is not the same turkish military... it was dead few years ago!.. if the turkish military was still "alive" we wouldnt have the Daech/isis today. Just in few seconds!..
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    and yes... it's coming! :(

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    all the islamists are now in the streets...

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    so sad,

    Atatürk reforms are all gone now!.. I won't be surprised if they'll build minarets in Anıtkabır (Atatürk's mausoleum in Ankara)
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    he is already powerful.... he set his throne way before he became the PM... he and his team worked so hard undercover.

    they're from the islamist group in turkey.

    for years *since the day of republic* we(today's minority; the secular crowd) ignored these islamists. and they all worked so hard undercover.

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    now he just did a charade... to sit his throne stronger; he gonna say "my people protected me"

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    right now, a civil war or something worse is on the way as far as i see; kurds, syrian refugees, islamists, and sub groups of these groups will crash...

    but we the secular minority will be the sad losers. :)
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    So sad :(

  2. This is horrible. The carnage, the senseless destruction of life, the trauma that will stay forever with survivors, the attack on liberalism.

    How can one feel safe around people that think this life is temporary and that better things await them after death?

    How do you reason with people that don't value life, even their own?

    This is a clash of civilisations.

  3. Nobody's saying voters should be ignored on the whim of a few. But voters are often uninformed on major issues with irreversible consequences. Like the article said, we're not talking about making a tax or policy change that can be fixed if it doesn't work out. Countries don't vote to break up or go to war based on the popular vote for this reason because not everyone has all the information to make such far-reaching decisions. Have referendums on social policy issues, sure, but the prospect of secession from the EU should never have been a referendum topic, just as Americans would think it's ludicrous to suggest that secession is a desirable fix for the issues we have with the government.

    I feel like you're making a lot of comparisons to the US political situation, when the reality is this is completely different for many reasons most Americans don't understand.

    Great post!

    Be wary of the low information voter.

  4. I'm not a Republican and I'm not defending them, but they would say that they believe that people can have a gun in their house to defend themselves in case someone invades their home, but there is no reason to have a gun at a public event like the convention where there is tons of professional security guards and police who are armed.

    They would never say that. They want them allowed everywhere. Even in courthouses and federal buildings.

    I was about to say Mauro, exactly. So again, why not the convention? What are they afraid of? :1251:

  5. And how many of these so-called Christians are down at the shelter every other weekend dishing up soup for the homeless?

    But I guess you wouldn't have time when you're busy shouting your head off in Target stores and chaining young girls in basements.

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