On-Going Military Coup in Turkey

[Derpist]

No one else seems to be saying this, so I will. This coup is a terrible idea. It will end horribly. Whether or not Obama had any role in planning this, it will end poorly for America.

[Derpist]

No one else seems to be saying this, so I will. This coup is a terrible idea. It will end horribly.

Do you think your guy Trump will come out in support of it?

No, because all he has to do is point out another horrific failure of American foreign policy to gain political points.

[Derpist]

I assume whatever happens, the Kurds lose.

That's for sure.

For all of Erdogan's problems, the Kemalists were much worse to the Kurds.

[Derpist]

Do we even know yet what the motivations of this coup are?

[Derpist]

Do we even know yet what the motivations of this coup are?

Yes. They listed them at the start. They want to basically 'restore' (in quotes because its debatable whether it really existed ever) liberal, secular, democracy.


They feel that the current administration is too authoritarian and too islamic and they need to be removed by the...traditional Turkish method.

Well, that what they say their motivation is…doesn't necessarily mean it's their real motivation.

Yeah, literally every movement in the world says they support democracy, from Nelson Mandela on one side to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea on the other.