something afoot in Turkey?

[valiant]

Tanks on the street.

Military claims to have taken over for 'democratic' reasons.

fking hell!

[m444ttb]

Twitter suggesting social media is all down in the country (some irony in that!) but national media seemingly still running as normal.

[Patch1875]

Supposed to be flying into Dalaman on Sunday.

[Esseesse]

SpeedMattersNot said:

Am I right to be concerned, or...

When Turkey is concerned I think it's their external actions that could give us things to worry about, since they're one of our NATO allies.

[Welshbeef]

Patch1875 said:

Supposed to be flying into Dalaman on Sunday.

I'd take the hit on the cost of that holiday currently.

[m444ttb]

If this is, as the media is suggesting, a faction within the military what's the next step? Meet force with force, or force them to climb down?

[Vaud]

Scrubs said:

A military coup in Turkey is really what the world needs right now.

Actually it might help in my view. Lock down the borders to Syria at least and stop it being a transit point for certain groups.

Also it will rule them out for EU membership for another 10 years. What a shame.

[Welshbeef]

Esseesse said:

When Turkey is concerned I think it's their external actions that could give us things to worry about, since they're one of our NATO allies.

One thing to say when they told Russia to Foxtrot Oscar and not fly over or close to their country if they ignore they stand by their words and shoot them down.

[Northern Munkee]

To be fair isn't it the military that defend the secular nature of the state, in the spirit Attaturk, whenever the government slip into troubling behaviour?

[red_slr]

Major question is who is helping, Russia or us?
These things generally don't happen without outside support.

[eharding]

Patch1875 said:

Supposed to be flying into Dalaman on Sunday.

You might want to check which side the military part of the airport is supporting.

Nothing worse than waiting for your baggage while the other half of the airport is being shelled.

[Oakey]

https://www.reddit.com/live/x9gf3donjlkq

[johnxjsc1985]

So Boris can take Turkey's PM of his list of people to apologise to.

[anonymous-user]

johnxjsc1985 said:

So Boris can take Turkey's PM of his list of people to apologise to.

President Erdogan. Ex -President.

[LaurasOtherHalf]

JPJPJP said:

Loads about it on Twitter already

That's where to go for breaking news

Not if you live in Turkey
https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/15/facebook-twitter...

[Jonesy23]

Northern Munkee said:

To be fair isn't it the military that defend the secular nature of the state, in the spirit Attaturk, whenever the government slip into troubling behaviour?

Pretty much this. They've had to do it a few times.

[thinkofaname]

EU accession somewhat on the backburner, then...

[mizx]

LaurasOtherHalf said:

Not if you live in Turkey
https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/15/facebook-twitter...

Reddit saying they still resolve through Google DNS

[eharding]

johnxjsc1985 said:

So Boris can take Turkey's PM of his list of people to apologise to.

That still leaves 16,141,241 of us.

[AJL308]

rich85uk said:

Military taken over turkey according to a statement

And this is the country that CMD wanted to join the EU?

I'm so glad I voted with the winning side on the 23rd of last month!