A group within Turkey’s military has engaged in an attempted coup, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said, according to the AP. There are reports of military jets flying over Ankara and vehicles reportedly blocking two major bridges in Istanbul.
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refresh my memory, here… does Turkey have the Bomb…?..
Drumpf will be upset Yet another story upstaging him.
No.
Ever since Ataturk, the military has kept Turkey a secular country. The current government, however, has been eating away at that secularism and has increasingly imposed right wing Islamism. If there is a coups, today, the only question is why did it take them so long.
NATO nations are bound by treaty to come to each other’s defense. I wonder what the agreements are for internal military aggressions, if any?
They should of done this a long time ago.
The military in Turkey had the responsibility to keep Turkey secular and they should of stamped out this early on rather than letting it take Turkey down a dark path for a long time.