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RE: Can anybody explain why Turkey fell into chaos? #nsfw war video from the front line yesterday.
My understand of the situation:
Erdogan tries to make Turkey into a religious police state. The military has traditionally been progressive and doesn't like to see Ataturk's work reversed.
But it's also possible that the coup was staged to make Erdogan seem more powerful and justify restricting rights even more. For example, it doesn't make sense that the coup happened at prime time (20:00 on Friday) rather than early morning when nobody is paying attention.
hmmm.. thanks for your perspective. I would tend to wish that a "progressive" military would be more apprehensive to genocide.