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Xenomorph
07-15-2016, 03:30 PM
I'll be honest, I did not see this coming. Forget about Cold War, we're a step away from a massive conflagration.

Greece, Bulgaria's armies are mobilizing, US already has stationed troops in Romania for a few years since Ukraine's escalations.

I'm afraid to speculate on what's next.

ruger#1
07-15-2016, 03:33 PM
ISTANBUL/ANKARA, July 15 (Reuters) - Turkey's military said on Friday it had seized power but President Tayyip Erdogan vowed that the attempted coup would be put down.


If successful, the overthrow of Erdogan, who has ruled Turkey since 2003, would be one of the biggest shifts in the Middle East in years, transforming one of the most important U.S. allies in the region while war rages on its border.

Latest on Turkey coup attempt from BreakingNews.com


"We will overcome this," Erdogan said, speaking on a video call to a mobile phone held up to the camera by an announcer on the Turkish sister station of CNN. He called on his followers to take to the streets to defend his government and said the coup plotters would pay a heavy price.


An official said Erdogan was speaking from Marmaris on the Turkish coast where he was on holiday. Erdogan said he would swiftly return to Ankara.

Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said the elected government remained in office. However, it appeared that those behind the coup had the upper hand initially.

Airports were shut, access to Internet social media sites was cut off, and troops sealed off the two bridges over the Bosphorus in Istanbul, one of which was still lit up red, white and blue in solidarity with victims of the Bastille Day truck attack in France a day earlier.

Warplanes and helicopters roared over the capital Ankara. An explosion was heard in Ankara, where a helicopter opened fire.

Soldiers took control of TRT state television, which announced a countrywide curfew and martial law. An announcer read a statement on the orders of the military that accused the government of eroding the democratic and secular rule of law. The country would be run by a "peace council" that would ensure the safety of the population, the statement said.

TRT later went off the air.



The state-run Anadolu news agency said the chief of Turkey's military staff was among people taken "hostage" in the capital Ankara. CNN Turk also reported that hostages were being held at the military headquarters.

NOT A TINPOT COUP

A senior EU source monitoring the situation said: "It looks like a relatively well orchestrated coup by a significant body of the military, not just a few colonels. They've got control of the airports and are expecting control over the TV station imminently. They control several strategic points in Istanbul.

"Given the scale of the operation, it is difficult to imagine they will stop short of prevailing. It's not just a few colonels," the source repeated.
One European diplomat was dining with the Turkish ambassador to a European capital when guests were interrupted by the pinging of urgent news on their mobile phones.

"This is clearly not some tinpot little coup. The Turkish ambassador was clearly shocked and is taking it very seriously," the diplomat told Reuters as the dinner party broke up. "However it looks in the morning, this will have massive implications for Turkey. This has not come out of nowhere."

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, speaking jointly after talks in Moscow, both said they hoped bloodshed would be avoided. The U.S. State Department said Americans in Turkey should shelter indoors. Other countries issued similar advice.

Turkey, a NATO member with the second biggest military in the Western alliance, is one of the most important allies of the United States in the fight against Islamic State, which seized swathes of neighboring Iraq and Syria.

Turkey is one of the main backers of opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in that country's civil war, host to 2.7 million Syrian refugees and launchpad last year for the biggest influx of migrants to Europe since World War Two.

Celebratory gunfire erupted in Syria's capital Damascus as reports emerged that Erdogan had been toppled, and people took the streets to celebrate there and in the government-held section of the divided city of Aleppo.

Turkey has been at war with Kurdish separatists, and has suffered numerous bombing and shooting attacks this year, including an attack two weeks ago by Islamists at Istanbul's main airport that killed more than 40 people.

In an earlier statement sent by email and reported on TV channels, the military said it had taken power to protect the democratic order and to maintain human rights. All of Turkey's existing foreign relations would be maintained and the rule of law would remain the priority, it said.

After serving as prime minister from 2003, Erdogan was elected president in 2014 with plans to alter the constitution to give the previously ceremonial presidency far greater executive powers. His opponents say his rule has become increasingly authoritarian.

His AK Party, with roots in Islamism, has long had a strained relationship with the military and nationalists in a state that was founded on secularist principles after World War One. The military has a history of mounting coups to defend secular principles, but has not seized power directly since 1980.

Prime Minister Yildirim said a group within Turkey's military had attempted to overthrow the government and security forces have been called in to "do what is necessary."

"Some people illegally undertook an illegal action outside of the chain of command," Yildirim said in comments broadcast by private channel NTV.

"The government elected by the people remains in charge. This government will only go when the people say so."

hunter fisher
07-15-2016, 03:39 PM
i fully expected to see a video of a turkey and tannerite meeting each other

Rob Chipman
07-15-2016, 04:21 PM
If the military succeeds I suspect we'll see more rational behaviour from the Turks in the fight on terrorism. Undoubtedly a lot of human rights abuses will occur.

adriaticum
07-15-2016, 04:32 PM
Turkey is not Europe.

ruger#1
07-15-2016, 04:53 PM
Turkey is not Europe.

Gobble Gobble. You are right.

tuner
07-15-2016, 05:04 PM
If the coup fails, Erdogan will have all the justification he needs to seize even more power,and to then steer Turkey in a more Islamist direction, a direction it's been going in for as long as he's been in a position of power. Expect an Epic,soviet style purge of the military, the judiciary as well as the political classes. The morons in the EU who support Turkeys membership,need to have their heads thoroughly examined.

ruger#1
07-15-2016, 05:07 PM
Turkey: Country's National Intelligence Spokesman Says Military Coup 'Repelled,' Report Says


The Associated Press reported the spokesman's comment early Saturday morning local time. Hours earlier, the military declared martial law and said in a statement it had taken control of the country.

ruger#1
07-15-2016, 05:19 PM
ANKARA, Turkey — Members of Turkey’s armed forces said they had taken control of the country, but Turkish officials said the coup attempt had been repelled early Saturday morning in a night of violence that left at least 17 dead, according to state-run media.

Explosions, gunfire and a reported air battle between loyalist forces and coup supporters erupted in the capital throughout the night and Turks heeded the president’s call to take to the streets to show support for his embattled government.

The state-run Anadolu Agency reported a bomb hit the Turkish parliament in Ankara. CNN-Turk television reported some police officers and parliament workers were hurt in the bomb attack.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in an interview over FaceTime with the CNN Turk station, dismissed the military action as “an attempt at an uprising by a minority within our armed forces.” His office declined to disclose his whereabouts, saying only that he was in a secure location.
The chaos capped a period of political turmoil in Turkey blamed on Erdogan’s increasingly authoritarian rule, which has included a government shake up, a crackdown on dissidents and opposition media and renewed conflict in the mainly Kurdish areas of the southeast.

The coup attempt began late Friday, with a statement from the military saying it had seized control “to reinstall the constitutional order, democracy, human rights and freedoms, to ensure that the rule of law once again reigns in the country, for the law and order to be reinstated.”

But the military did not appear unified, with top commanders taking to television to condemn the action and order troops back to their barracks.
Those who are attempting a coup will not succeed. Our people should know that we will overcome this,” Gen. Zekai Aksakalli, the commander of the military special forces, told the private NTV television by telephone.

Fighter jets under the control of loyalist forces were flying over the capital to strike at helicopters flown by coup supporters, the state-run Anadolu news agency said. Private NTV television reported that one helicopter was shot down.

By Saturday morning, Nuh Yilmaz, a spokesman for Turkish National Intelligence told CNN Turk that the coup had been quashed, adding that small groups were still active.

During the fighting, 17 police officers were been killed in a helicopter attack on police special forces headquarters on the outskirts of Ankara, Anadolu said.

tater
07-15-2016, 06:10 PM
This thread impacts game management , resident priority issues for hunting or anything else to do with hunting in BC how...?

If i wanted international news i would be elsewhere.

Wentrot
07-15-2016, 06:15 PM
This thread impacts game management , resident priority issues for hunting or anything else to do with hunting in BC how...?

If i wanted international news i would be elsewhere.

Don't open the post if it hurts your feelings.pretty simple

ruger#1
07-15-2016, 06:16 PM
This thread impacts game management , resident priority issues for hunting or anything else to do with hunting in BC how...?

If i wanted international news i would be elsewhere. And you do not have to read it. There are more hunting threads. Stay on them and off of the political threads and you should be fine.

Surrey Boy
07-15-2016, 06:16 PM
Go Army !







Hope the Kurds make some hay with this.

Glenny
07-15-2016, 06:18 PM
It's go time. Ya?

Surrey Boy
07-15-2016, 06:21 PM
Russia might have to intervene. Go Putin! Maybe the Greeks can retake Cyprus and Constantinople. Time to build another giant horse.

Looks good for Alberta oil if eastern supply gets disrupted.

ruger#1
07-15-2016, 06:24 PM
Russia might have to intervene. Go Putin! Maybe the Greeks can retake Cyprus and Constantinople. Time to build another giant horse.

Looks good for Alberta oil if eastern supply gets disrupted. I hope they build a Palomino.

takla1
07-15-2016, 06:55 PM
Russia might have to intervene. Go Putin! Maybe the Greeks can retake Cyprus and Constantinople. Time to build another giant horse.

Looks good for Alberta oil if eastern supply gets disrupted.

Unfortunately Alberta cant produce oil at 46.00 buck a barrel,that and theres super oil tankers parked around the world full to the brim without buyers,maybe you haven't heard yet?And by the way the Greeks couldn't take back an opened bottle of olive oil....their broke too

takla

FishandHunt
07-17-2016, 07:00 PM
I clicked on this thread expecting to see a picture or video of hunting European Turkeys with explosives. I'm disappointed.

adriaticum
07-17-2016, 07:08 PM
This thread impacts game management , resident priority issues for hunting or anything else to do with hunting in BC how...?

If i wanted international news i would be elsewhere.

Yes, be elsewhere.

Gateholio
07-17-2016, 09:10 PM
This thread impacts game management , resident priority issues for hunting or anything else to do with hunting in BC how...?

If i wanted international news i would be elsewhere.

good point....