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In reply to the discussion: This message was self-deleted by its author [View all]athena
(4,187 posts)7. I am perfectly aware of that.
But the last one was in 1997, almost twenty years ago, and was a "soft" coup, in which they banned a political party and didn't actually take control of government. And no coup has ever failed. Turkey has the second largest military in NATO after the U.S. When they carry out a coup, it does not disintegrate in a few hours.
Furthermore, the Turkish military is not as powerful as it once was. Erdogan has already purged it of its staunchest secular generals through a series of sham trials.
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FFS. The "conspiracy" is that for-profit media eliminated all journalistic integrity years ago.
yardwork
Jul 2016
#46
Of course this is a conspiracy theory. You're claiming a conspiracy to bomb their parliament
muriel_volestrangler
Jul 2016
#25
No, I never said anything like "no conspiracy could possibly happen in Turkey"
muriel_volestrangler
Jul 2016
#35
I'm not dismissing the coup. I didn't mention Sandy Hook truthers or anti-vaxxers, either
muriel_volestrangler
Jul 2016
#31
Yep could be False Flag Coup engineered by Erdogan to smoke out traitors and consolidate control.
yellowcanine
Jul 2016
#13
"The Daily Stormer" is a neo-Nazi site. Remove your link to it at once.
muriel_volestrangler
Jul 2016
#40