Turkey's Erdogan declares state of emergency after coup attempt

[MowCowWhoHow III]

Source: AFP

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday declared a three-month state of emergency in Turkey in order to hunt down all those deemed to be behind an attempted coup.

The state of emergency was needed "in order to remove swiftly all the elements of the terrorist organisation involved in the coup attempt," he said at the presidential palace in Ankara.

Turkey has accused the group of US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen of being behind the coup and acting as a terror group. Gulen vehemently denies the charge.

"The decision has been made to declare the state of emergency for a period of three months," he said at a news conference.

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[Warpy]

1. He certainly is playing the part of the victim for all it's worth.

Color me extremely skeptical. I just hope the Turks are, also.

[tonyt53]

2. The people in the larger cities are not his supporters. Those are the urban citizens.

Sounds like the US and our demographics.

[DetlefK]

4. Was the same in Iran.

Ahmadinejad's powerbase was voters from the rural areas, but the people from urban areas didn't like him.

[DetlefK]

3. Turkey will no longer be a democracy 3 months from now.

The cops? Erdogan is packing them with cronies.
Judges? Erdogan is packing them with cronies.
Attorney-generals? Erdogan is packing them with cronies.
Academics? Erdogan is packing them with cronies.
Generals? Erdogan is packing them with cronies.

And Erdogan had new law passed that removes legal immunities for sitting members of parliament.

In Germany, Erdogan already has the nick-name "The Dictator from the Bosporus" among cynics and comedians.
3 months from now, the joke will have become reality.

[Blue_Tires]

5. It was disturbing to see the crowd at his speech

chanting "EXECUTION!" for the coup participants...

[ansible]

10. Reminds me of this scene from Star Wars

[JCMach1]

6. He has managed to totally wipe out democracy... of course that was the goal of his fake coup

What's worse, it's a kleptocracy tinged with Islamist ideology.

[turbinetree]

7. And this is what happens when you create a dictatorship

this is not going to end well for a lot of countries and people, and alliances like NATO for starters

[uawchild]

8. Turkey has fallen off the cliff this week

I did not give credence to the theory that the coup was a fake organized by Erdogan himself to cloak a power grab.

I am now wavering on that appraisal.

[modem77]

9. Hearing some rumors from credible sources that mass executions of prisoners is about to begin.

[thucythucy]

11. It's beginning to seem that this attempted coup

was Erdogan's Reichstag fire.

[The Second Stone]

12. Looks to me like a coup succeeded. This guy has decided to

become a dictator. I hope we don't get into a war over it.

[Nihil]

13. WTF? "in order to hunt down all those deemed to be ..."

> Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday declared a three-month state of
> emergency in Turkey in order to hunt down all those deemed to be behind an attempted coup.



> in order to hunt down all those deemed to be

If I were in Turkey, I'd be scared.

Erdogan has issued a diktat that "authorises" the hunting down of anyone deemed to be a threat.

Anyone who isn't worried by that action is pretty ignorant of history ...