Military coup in Turkey

[Fragony]

It's all kinda bewildering, the EU keeps talking with him despite human-rights violations. But he isn't stupid he will detract his fart on death penalty seemingly giving eurocrats what they can present as having any cojones, and talks about visum free travel will continue, the nightmare of every modern-minded Euro-Turk.

[Husar]

It's all kinda bewildering, the EU keeps talking with him despite human-rights violations. But he isn't stupid he will detract his fart on death penalty seemingly giving eurocrats what they can present as having any cojones, and talks about visum free travel will continue, the nightmare of every modern-minded Euro-Turk.

I assume that they keep talking with him hoping that he will come around and try to join, with all the human rights changes that entails. And of course because that was part of the refugeee deal...

[Fragony]

I assume that they keep talking with him hoping that he will come around and try to join, with all the human rights changes that entails. And of course because that was part of the refugeee deal...

They aren't exactly usefull there, nor needed, the Balkan route is as good as closed. I don't know why we are still on speaking terms

[Csargo]

https://www.rt.com/news/351995-wikil...key-documents/

WikiLeaks reported suffering a “sustained attack” after it announced the upcoming release of hundreds of thousands of documents relating to Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) in the wake of a failed military coup.

Despite the attack, the famous whistleblowing site promised to “prevail & publish” the first batch of documents on Tuesday. Earlier WikiLeaks announced that the release of documents, which could expose the Turkish “political power structure”, will contain 300,000 emails and 500,000 documents.

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

So, they've come for the academics and (what's left of) the press.

Remind me, who's next on the road to dictatorship?

[Seamus Fermanagh]

Reducing electoral power of the masses. This can be by having the legislature vote itself out of existence (adios Weimar Germany), but changing the rules of government so that any representative body is functionally powerless (U.S. state legislatures increasingly), or watering down the power of the vote so that only certain votes really count ("Tribal" and class voting in the Roman Repuiblic).

[Husar]

Looks like the "cleanup" continues.

[Papewaio]

So, they've come for the academics and (what's left of) the press.

Remind me, who's next on the road to dictatorship?

Lets see an officer purge, check
High level aids (probably because they saw how fast he high tailed it out of the country), check
Academics, check
Reporters, check

Leaves the clergy and oppositions parties to remove
And a special presidential/black/red/revolutionary guard to put in place

[I of the Storm]

You forgot the judges. That's a check also.

If he's taking a page from NSDAP, the unions (do they have unions in Turkey?) should be taken care of next.

Also, I'd be surprised if turkish domestic intelligence doesn't have a lot of "new exciting job opportunities" in the near future.

[Seamus Fermanagh]

Not much of a surprise really -- treason never prospers (for if it does....).

If you rebel and you lose then you are neatly identified as "the problem" for the existing powers-that-be and removal is really the only logical choice. That is all that is happening so far. Now, depending on how long the pogrom continues and how power rules are re-written, THEN we shall see what we shall see.