Friday, July 15, 2016

Now what?

Military coup underway in Turkey.

4 comments:

bruce said...

German sources suggest this coups is led by the Gulenists:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BClen_movement

They are politically liberal, Gulen lives in the US, while socially conservative.

Formerly Erdogan's allies, they baulk at his family's corruption.

I'll take a bet each way on the benefits of the outcome.

bruce said...

Erdogan has been doing a very heavy-handed crackdown on Gulenists, who are very influential and can only bend so far before retaliating surely:
http://qz.com/733802/a-reclusive-religious-scholar-in-pennsylvania-may-be-behind-the-attempted-coup-in-turkey/

Very predictable. Hullo CIA? Anyone awake in there? US citizens should be demanding more from their Intel services.

rinardman said...

Ya know, if Hillary gets elected...

bruce said...

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2016/07/hillarys-first-priority-if-she-wins-to-shut-up-her-critics.php

Erdogan's already shown the way. Turkification? Clintonisation?