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"Erdogan, if winning this coup, will only strengthen his power" (Original Post) LongTomH Jul 2016 OP
There was no coup, it was all a show Warpy Jul 2016 #1

Warpy

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1. There was no coup, it was all a show
Sat Jul 16, 2016, 02:29 PM
Jul 2016

with jets and choppers buzzing the cities and tanks in the street with no damage done anywhere, just inconveniently blocked traffic. The Skype asking people to go out and show their support? Pure theater.

This is the justification he'll use to hunt down and kill all members of the Gulen Movement. This is his justification for his night of the long knives, copied from his idol Hitler.

Fortunately, the Gulenists have tried to be as secretive as possible. He'll only get the ones he considered his allies in the past.

Oh, by the way, the US is now his enemy. He declared any country harboring Fethullah Gulen to be an enemy of Turkey. The man has been in the US for ages.

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