45000 coupe plotters rounded up so far
Turkey coup attempt: Crackdown toll passes 50,000 - BBC News
Maybe if they'd all joined in then the coup would have worked.
Whatever Erdogan's game plan is I have a bad feeling about it. Is it all a ploy to change Turkey into a less democratic and more ISIS supporting cesspit of extremist religious nutters? If so at least that EU visa waiver isn't in play yet, and looking even less likely they'll ever join the EU, if the EU is still worth joining in a few years.
An airbase that just happens to have nukes. 
Maybe that WWIII thread has legs after all, with Turkey reportedly (not sure where but read it somewhere) threatening the USA if they don't hand over that Gulen guy they suspect of being behind the coup attempt. Yanks wanting proof of involvement before extradition but Turkey saying suspicion is proof enough.
I was going to say "Tom Clancy's next novel is writing itself" but didn't realise he died in 2013.
Edit: As you can see by the actual title of the link above, it's now over 50k. They're moving fast, it was 45k honest guv when I started writing this post.
Turkey coup attempt: Crackdown toll passes 50,000 - BBC News
Maybe if they'd all joined in then the coup would have worked.
Whatever Erdogan's game plan is I have a bad feeling about it. Is it all a ploy to change Turkey into a less democratic and more ISIS supporting cesspit of extremist religious nutters? If so at least that EU visa waiver isn't in play yet, and looking even less likely they'll ever join the EU, if the EU is still worth joining in a few years.
The Pentagon said that talks also took place on Tuesday between Defence Secretary Ash Carter and his Turkish counterpart regarding the Incirlik air base in southern Turkey.
The base, which is used by a US-led coalition fighting so-called Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, has been without power since the coup attempt.
The base, which is used by a US-led coalition fighting so-called Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, has been without power since the coup attempt.
Maybe that WWIII thread has legs after all, with Turkey reportedly (not sure where but read it somewhere) threatening the USA if they don't hand over that Gulen guy they suspect of being behind the coup attempt. Yanks wanting proof of involvement before extradition but Turkey saying suspicion is proof enough.
I was going to say "Tom Clancy's next novel is writing itself" but didn't realise he died in 2013.
Edit: As you can see by the actual title of the link above, it's now over 50k. They're moving fast, it was 45k honest guv when I started writing this post.
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