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by spriggan3 3627 days ago
> Why was everyone screaming democracy when they never had one in the first place?

Political correctness. Turkey is defacto ruled by a brutal dictatorship now, the failed coup was the last chance of restoring actual democracy in Turkey. The Turkish constitution is actually good and acknowledge the danger of an Islamic theocracy. The role of the Turkish army is/was to prevent it.They failed.
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madelinecameron 3627 days ago
I don't think they failed as much as they were never meant to succeed. There are just so many places where the military could've outright "taken out" Erdogan but didn't (such as when the "coup" had two jets right next to Erdogan's jet... but didn't shoot then completely backed off)

This was completely set-up to round up popular support / not make it look suspicious when Erdogan did exactly this.

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spriggan3 3627 days ago
> I don't think they failed as much as they were never meant to succeed

Do you think it was a setup orchestrated by Erdogan ?

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lettergram 3627 days ago
I honestly don't believe it was a coup at all, or at least it was known before hand. There's no way the presidents plane was allows to just flying in circles around the city.
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