Turkey cancels all TV, radio licences linked to Gulen: watchdog

[MowCowWhoHow III]

Source: AFP

Istanbul (AFP) - Turkish authorities on Tuesday scrapped all television and radio station licences linked to US-based preacher Fethullah Gulen, whom Ankara accuses of being behind Friday's failed coup.

The broadcasting watchdog said it had "cancelled all broadcasting rights and licences for media that had links to FETO/PDY", the acronym for the Gulen movement.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/turkey-cancels-tv-radio-licences-linked-gulen-watchdog-161735777.html?ref=gs

[Sunlei]

1. That knee JERK move instantly divides Turkey. IMO that is a dumbass move.

Sunlei 7/19/16

[Javaman]

2. yup. this won't end well.

I think things are about to get a lot worse.

[6chars]

3. it might end fine for Erdogan's side

the coup, so to speak, seems to be right on track

[Throd]

8. Or lead to civil war...

[6chars]

9. or that.

[uawchild]

11. Nah

The anti-Erdogan people in Turkey realize that they are significantly in the minority now, they will all be keeping their heads low and trying to get visas to the EU. Erdogan's opposition come from the better educated, more secular segment of the population and are simply out numbered by what was once Erdogan's rural base but which now has a significant presence in the major cities.

[Ford_Prefect]

4. This will get very messy before it gets better. Kabuki Theater Ankara Style.

[6chars]

6. Maybe this will help Erdogan clean it up.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says he is ready to reinstate the death penalty "if the people demand it", following the recent coup attempt.

He was addressing supporters outside his Istanbul residence who were chanting for capital punishment to be restored.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36832071

Says the Prime Minister:

"We will dig them up by their roots so that no clandestine terrorist organisation will have the nerve to betray our blessed people again."

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I think he is referring to about 35000 military and police, 1500 deans, 15000 professors, 21000 teachers, 3000 judges, and some other number of civil servants and who knows who else.

[Ford_Prefect]

10. A US foreign policy of endless war/regime change is not going to help them.

Nor is SOP CIA meddling.

[6chars]

12. nope. that country is just screwed.

Here is my amazing prediction: a lot of the educated and professional class of Turkey will start emigrating very soon.

[geek tragedy]

5. Turkey is reverting back to the mean, democracy is an aberration in the Middle East--

it's still a region where authoritarianism is the default state. Egypt quickly reverted a while ago, Israel is now slouching towards fascism, etc etc.

The people of Istanbul should start an independence movement. Otherwise they're just going to continue to be ruled by the Islamist authoritarians who live in the rest of the country.

[47of74]

7. It pains me what's going on in Turkey

I had a great time over there in 2012.

I have a lot of affection for the Turkish people.

I hope it works out for them in the end.

[Blue_Tires]

13. This Gulen is turning into a convenient fall guy

even though the U.S. hadn't even heard of him four days ago...

[mopinko]

14. nah. he is pretty well known.

a couple of years ago the fbi investigated his charter school chain. i read that charges were not brought because of political pressure.

i suspect we have plenty of intel which will tell whether or not he actually had anything to do with it.

[Blue_Tires]

15. By all accounts he's a smart man

so I have no idea how he would even be indirectly connected to such a half-assed coup attempt...

You knew it was bad when even the opposition parties who hate Erdogan were denouncing it...

[Igel]

16. The Harmony schools are also pretty good.

They're sometimes run down, but clean and well lit. Students study hard, teachers have high standards.

Observed a couple a number of years ago. I didn't know anything about them when I observed, and was struck by the Muslim student population, Muslim teachers, and the fact that they offered Turkish as a foreign language. Even though it's STEM-focused. My own kid's best friend went to a Harmony school. He liked it.

Had they been closer to where I live, I'd have sent my kid there. If only because Turkish is sufficiently distsant from English that if you don't start early, you're unlikely to get that far without a lot of agony. (I teach science, but tell my kids I'm a linguist at heart.)