Erdogan Seeks Asylum in Germany: Report

[Surya Gayatri]

Source: The Daily Beast

Turkish president Tayyip Erdoğan is reportedly seeking asylum in Germany, as a military coup continues in Turkey, U.S. military sources tell NBC News. Erdoğan's presidential jet was allegedly denied landing rights at Istanbul's airport, before heading out of the country. Addressing Turkey via Facetime, Erdoğan asserted declared, “I am president,” and vowed to crush the opposition forces.

Read more: http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2016/07/15/erdogan-seeks-asylum-in-germany-report.html

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Will update when available. Things moving quickly.

[forest444]

1. How appropriate.

http://yournewswire.com/erdogan-praises-hitlers-germany-for-effective-government/

[Surya Gayatri]

4. Erdogan has definite autocratic instincts. I believe the military just got fed up with him

trying to amend Turkey's proud 100-year-old secular constitution.

[forest444]

6. Well said.

As president he seemed more appropriate to a backwater like Yemen - not a G20 powerhouse like Turkey.

[Yo_Mama]

11. You can't fuck the Turkish general's goat and get away with it.

The last little spate of King-or-President-for-Life, what's the difference? did him in.

It's been seven or eight years that the fight with the courts has been going on. I hope the army consolidates and then gets the judges to help them form an interim government to get back to some sort of normalized status.

[Surya Gayatri]

16. ^^^This!^^^

[Warpy]

24. That's exactly what they've done in the past when this has happened

Erdogan wasn't the first man who thought he was king and likely won't be the last. The country is structured to allow the military to intervene when a strongman takes over--or tries to.

I don't know what the last straw was, although I suspect it was the attack on Ataturk Airport 2 weeks ago. Erdogan has been very soft on DAESH. Then again, he was going to put in a new top man at the military and the military was having none of it.

CBS has suggested the Gulenist movement has had a part in this, also.

It's moving so quickly that nobody knows much of anything for certain, only that tanks have rolled through the streets and there has been gunfire and it looks like a few bombs have gone off.

I'm hoping for the best outcome there. I've known Turks online as intelligent, educated, and wickedly funny people.

[tblue37]

17. +1. nt

[kevinbgoode1]

2. I don't know if any of these links might be helpful. . .but I'll post it anyway :)

https://www.angloinfo.com/turkey/how-to/page/turkey-lifestyle-entertainment-english-language-media

[Surya Gayatri]

7. From what I gather, all maintream media and social media have been shut down

or are under military control. I suspect this site is "silent" for the moment.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

3. Nothing says you're in charge quite like addressing the nation by Facetime or Skype

[Surya Gayatri]

8. A mark of true gravitas and power. LOL!

[Yo_Mama]

14. And asking regular citizens to go out to the airport and confront the forces there....

Really, dude?

http://www.faz.net/agenturmeldungen/dpa/erdogan-ruft-volk-zu-oeffentlichen-versammlungen-gegen-putschisten-auf-14343090.html

https://translate.google.de/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=de&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.faz.net%2Fagenturmeldungen%2Fdpa%2Ferdogan-ruft-volk-zu-oeffentlichen-versammlungen-gegen-putschisten-auf-14343090.html&edit-text=

[jpak]

5. Didn't he have someone in Germany sued because of an insult?

Hope they dude countersues

yup

[muriel_volestrangler]

10. Yep, a comedian; Boris Johnson, now UK Foreign Secretary, wrote a rude limerick about Erdogan

in response. And, to add spice to things, Johnson's great-grandfather was a Turkish journalist and politician who was summarily executed in the aftermath of WWI by people who thought he was too friendly with the British.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Kemal

[christx30]

35. He actually wanted to have the comic prosecuted

and jailed for the insult. And Germany was looking into it. Horrible.

[L. Coyote]

9. Quite a lot on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/search?q=turkey+coup

[Surya Gayatri]

12. This tweet says there's good coverage on the BBC...

Mathilde Gracia
?@MathildeGracia

Très bon suivi de la situation en Turquie sur la BBC http://bbc.in/29Wt7QI #coup #Turkey

[Arazi]

13. Out of the country already? I'd bet he's finished

[Yo_Mama]

15. Erdo wie, Erdo wo, ErdoGANG n/t

[jpak]

18. Erdo gone

[Yo_Mama]

19. I have tears in my eyes - from laughter - reading the outraged tweets about "democracy"

I sure hope this goes well and quietly - people have enough to bear there.

[Codeine]

22. Oh that's perfection.

[asiliveandbreathe]

20. I just don't know enough - is this a good thing or bad thing..

A NATO ally no less...additional info here -

http://www.theatlantic.com/news/archive/2016/07/turkey-government/491579/

Tks to Surya for keeping us updated....remarkable events....

[Surya Gayatri]

21. Glad to. The Turkish people have SO much to deal with.

As everybody is saying in the MSM: "Who's in charge here?"

[David__77]

23. I hope that the group taking power will restore peace with its neighbors.

I am not at all surprised about this happening.

[MowCowWhoHow III]

25. This is purportedly Erdogan's plane

https://www.flightradar24.com/THY8456/a5a3952

[muriel_volestrangler]

28. If correct, it appears to have stopped circling, and is now about to land in Istanbul

had circled about 120km SW of Istanbul; now heading towards it and descending.

[guillaumeb]

26. Another country where the US is "forced" to intervene? eom

[PoutrageFatigue]

27. Not seeing this reported anywhere else.

...

[jakeXT]

29. some claim he is landing

https://www.flightradar24.com/THY8456/a5a3952

[BlueMTexpat]

30. Al Jazeera seems to have some pretty good coverage.

http://live.aljazeera.com/Event/TURKEY_COUP_ATTEMPT

It says that the state broadcaster TRT is now back on the air and there is a short statement from NATO calling for calm and restraint.

I won't cut and paste more because this link is updated quickly. Bookmark it along with others and follow the events.

[Mosby]

31. the coup isn't going to work

I wouldn't want to be a gulen supporter right now.

[lovuian]

32. NBC says he has been denied asylum in Germany and He is

going to London next
NBC reporting that President Erdogan's asylum request has been rejected by the Germans, he is thought to be flying to London

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/turkey-coup-live-updates-explosion-8431256

[PoutrageFatigue]

33. He reportedly just landed in Istanbul.

Per reuters.

[Glimmer of Hope]

34. Now what?

[christx30]

36. He'll try to drum up support.

He'll see how many friends he has, especially in the military. See if there is enough muscle to get him into power and put the coup out of business. Who knows.