GUILTY Coup attempt underway in Turkey, 2016

[Elley Mae]

Turkey Widens Purge as Crackdown Continues

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/19/world/europe/turkey-erdogan-crackdown.html

The Interior Ministry fired nearly 9,000 police officers on Monday, Turkish officials said. That followed the arrests of 6,000 military personnel and 103 generals and admirals, and the suspensions of nearly 3,000 judges over the weekend.

The magnitude of the purges has raised concerns among Turkey’s Western allies that Mr. Erdogan is abandoning the rule of law and using the coup attempt as a pretext to cleanse the country’s institutions of his enemies.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-security-idUSKCN0ZX07S

A senior security official told Reuters that 8,000 police officers, including in the capital Ankara and the biggest city Istanbul, had been removed from their posts on suspicion of links to Friday's coup bid.

 

[Everyday Grace]

Regulators block news websites

The TİB, Turkey's telecommunications regulator, on Sunday blocked access to at least five news websites, according to press reports. The website of the Can Erzincan TV satellite station and the news websites Gazetport and Haberdar, which regulators blocked Sunday, are sympathetic to the Hizmet movement, which the Turkish government blames for last weekend's failed coup attempt. The websites Medyascope and ABC Gazetesi, which regulators also blocked, are independent in their coverage, and have often been critical of the Hizmet movement in the past.

Much more at the link:
https://cpj.org/blog/2016/07/turkey-crackdown-chronicle.php

 

[Dr. Know?]

[video=twitter;755011420555804672]https://twitter.com/RT_com/status/755011420555804672[/video]

 

[Dr. Know?]

[video=twitter;755086077065560064]https://twitter.com/tooppermann/status/755086077065560064[/video]

 

[Dr. Know?]

[video=twitter;755091267537608705]https://twitter.com/GermanyDiplo/status/755091267537608705[/video]

GermanForeignOfficeVerified account ‏@GermanyDiplo 3m3 minutes ago
FM #Steinmeier on the current debate in #Turkey: "The #DeathPenalty is incompatible with European principles."

 

[Dr. Know?]

Turkey ex-air chief Akin Ozturk 'admits' to coup plot

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36829574

I'm seeing tweets where Ozturk is denying it also.

 

[i.b.nora]

Turkey ex-air chief Akin Ozturk 'admits' to coup plot

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36829574

I'm seeing tweets where Ozturk is denying it also.

The article is basically saying he denies it.

 

[Elley Mae]

Islamist Turkey seizes ALL Christian churches in city and declares them 'state property'

PUBLISHED: 00:01, Fri, Apr 22, 2016
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world...hurches-Diyarbakir-persecution-state-property


I missed this happening, just 2 months ago.

 

[Elley Mae]

Ratcheting up his defiant tone, Prime Minister Erdogan appears determined to end the protests that have put an unflattering international spotlight on his Islamic-rooted government and its handling of the biggest street unrest of his 10-year tenure.
Published: 07:47 EST, 13 June 2013
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-vows-remove-demonstrators-Taksim-Square.html

 

[Dr. Know?]

Newsweek Middle East
‏@NewsweekME
#BREAKING: Turkey's high education board calls from resignation of 1,577 deans and rectors of all universities.

hmmm eta,

Matt LeeVerified account ‏@APDiploWriter 2m2 minutes ago
Yikes.
ISTANBUL (AP) - #Turkey's state media: Ministry of education sacks 15,200 for alleged ties to group govt blames for failed coup.

https://twitter.com/APDiploWriter

 

[Cryptic]

Islamist Turkey seizes ALL Christian churches in city and declares them 'state property'

PUBLISHED: 00:01, Fri, Apr 22, 2016
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world...hurches-Diyarbakir-persecution-state-property

I missed this happening, just 2 months ago.

Though I am no fan of Erdogan, this might not be sinister.

The key question is whether or not these churches have active congregations. If not, then the Turkish government, by a gentleman's agreement with Greece, makes the churches government property, forbids squatters, graffiti artists and homeless from entering, and maintains them as historical monuments (some are undoubtably maintained better than others). Under the same agreement, the Greeks have done the same with historic mosques in Greece that no longer have active congregations.

Another question is whether or not Erdogan will return the churches if asked to by Christian Bishops as the congregations only temporarily left the area. In the past, both Greece and Turkey have been reluctant to return worship sites deemed to be historical monuments. Usually, this is tit or tat: Turkey refuses to return a church and says it is now a historical monument, Greece refuses to return a mosque to a moslem group claiming that the group is not "original" to that mosque (or vis versa)

 

[i.b.nora]

Based on the latest attack on educators, I have a new theory on all this coup stuff. My theory being that he orchestrated the coup himself.

I really know very little about this sort of thing but I was reminded of Chairman Mao and his Cultural Revolution.

“In a classic autocratic method to gain control, Mao Tse-tung manufactured a crisis that only he could solve. Mao told his followers that bourgeois elements in China were aiming to restore capitalism, and declared these elements must be removed from society. His youthful followers formed the Red Guards and led a mass purge of the "undesirables." Soon Mao was back in command. To prevent a repeat of the rejection he received during the Hundred Flowers Campaign, Mao ordered the closure of China's schools, and young intellectuals living in the cities were sent into the countryside to be "re-educated" through hard manual labor. The Revolution destroyed much of China's traditional cultural heritage as well as creating general economic and social chaos in the country. It was during this time that Mao's cult of personality grew to immense proportions.​

Just an idea.

Above quote from: http://www.biography.com/people/mao...s-return-to-power-and-the-cultural-revolution

 

[Dr. Know?]

I.B, your idea is what many have said during the coup attempt. I agree.

 

[x_files]

Islamist Turkey seizes ALL Christian churches in city and declares them 'state property'

PUBLISHED: 00:01, Fri, Apr 22, 2016
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world...hurches-Diyarbakir-persecution-state-property


I missed this happening, just 2 months ago.

yikes

 

[Elley Mae]

Erdogan targets more than 50,000 in purge after failed Turkish coup

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-security-idUSKCN0ZX07S

In a sign of international concern, a German official said a serious fissure had opened in Turkey and he feared fighting would break out within Germany's large Turkish community.

"A deep split is emerging in Turkish society," Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann told the Berliner Zeitung newspaper. "The danger of an escalation in violence between Erdogan supporters and opponents has also risen in Germany."

bbm

Prime Minister Yildirim accused Washington, which has said it will consider Gulen's extradition only if clear evidence is provided, of double standards in its fight against terrorism.

Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus told reporters that 9,322 people were under legal proceedings in relation to the attempted coup.

Eight soldiers have sought asylum in neighboring Greece and Turkey says they must be handed back or it will not help relations between the neighbors, which have long been uneasy.

 

[Elley Mae]

According to the police statement, officers were originally called to the scene at around 1:35 p.m. after a 911 caller reported that at least three people were shooting at him from a vehicle. The suspects fled when officers arrived, and one of them was arrested at the scene.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/07/1...r-in-critical-condition-after-being-shot.html

 

[x_files]

Erdogan targets more than 50,000 in purge after failed Turkish coup

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-security-idUSKCN0ZX07S

In a sign of international concern, a German official said a serious fissure had opened in Turkey and he feared fighting would break out within Germany's large Turkish community.

"A deep split is emerging in Turkish society," Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann told the Berliner Zeitung newspaper. "The danger of an escalation in violence between Erdogan supporters and opponents has also risen in Germany."

bbm

Prime Minister Yildirim accused Washington, which has said it will consider Gulen's extradition only if clear evidence is provided, of double standards in its fight against terrorism.

Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus told reporters that 9,322 people were under legal proceedings in relation to the attempted coup.

Eight soldiers have sought asylum in neighboring Greece and Turkey says they must be handed back or it will not help relations between the neighbors, which have long been uneasy.

This is deeply disturbing for a so-called Democratic society.

 

[Dr. Know?]

WikiLeaks suffers ‘sustained attack’ after announcing megaleak of Turkey govt docs

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.

“Our infrastructure is under sustained attack,” WikiLeaks said on Twitter. “We are unsure of the true origin of the attack. The timing suggests a Turkish state power faction or its allies.”

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.

https://www.rt.com/news/351995-wikileaks-attack-turkey-documents/

 

[Dr. Know?]

Steve HermanVerified account ‏@W7VOA 3h3 hours ago
#Turkey has filed extradition request with US gov't for Gulen, @WhiteHouse confirms.

Cindy SaineVerified account
‏@cindysaine
#Breaking #VOAalert @PressSec: we are now evaluating material sent by #Turkey to see if there is an extradition request for #Gulen.

https://twitter.com/cindysaine

Steve HermanVerified account ‏@W7VOA 2h2 hours ago Washington, DC
Documents received so far from #Turkey cannot be characterized as extradition request, says @StateDept.

https://twitter.com/W7VOA

Reuters Top News ‏@Reuters 10m10 minutes ago
BREAKING: Turkish cleric Gulen denies involvement in attempted coup, urges U.S. to reject Turkey's efforts to have him extradited: statement

 

[Dr. Know?]

The purge...

Turkey Seeks to Rid Education of Erdogan Opponents After Coup Attempt

ISTANBUL — The Turkish authorities extended their purge of state institutions on Tuesday, suspending more than 15,000 employees of the education ministry for suspected links to a failed military coup last week.

Shortly after the suspensions were announced, the High Education Board ordered the resignation of more than 1,500 deans from universities across the country and revoked the licenses of 21,000 teachers, Turkish officials said.

By Tuesday night, the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had either purged or detained nearly 35,000 members of the military, security forces and judiciary in an effort to remove from the government bureaucracy and political-class loyalists of Fethullah Gulen, a Muslim cleric whom the government has accused of orchestrating Friday’s coup attempt.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/20/world/europe/turkey-erdogan-gulen.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0