Five of the suspected coup members at a police station in Ankara, Turkey
The footage was allegedly filmed at a police station in Ankara where the men are being held in custody before they appear in court later today.
The release of the video comes after an EU official suggested the swift rounding up of nearly 3,000 judges and military officials after the failed coup in Turkey suggests the government had a list of names prepared beforehand.
EU claims list of 3,000 arrested Erdogan enemies was drawn up BEFORE the uprising (Mail Online)
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Some rebel F16 pilots had a chance to shoot Erdogans plane down while he was in the air and did not. Why? Looks more and more staged unfortunately.
Turkey told not to re-introduce death penatl by EU. http://edition.cnn.com/2016/07/18/asia/turkey-attempted-coup/index.html
2,700 judges removed from posts. Not sure if judges can drive tanks? Were they part of the coup?
He’s removing an independent judiciary, clamping down on media outlets.
In saving democracy, population may be creating a dictator.
Sadly, this seems most likely.
Whiffs of some sort of agent provocateur admist the ranks
If they bring in the death penalty they can kiss good bye to EU membership
Erdogan, doesn’t want eu membership, he’d be answerable to president merkle if they got it.
A very dangerous man is Erdogan.
Merkel and co need to WTFU before this lunatic causes WW3.
I can almost hear their tortured screams from here. God love them.
Turkey may be facing NATO expulsion if Erdogan keeps this up.
Ah no, that’s finger wagging for optics. Turkey is a real G[eopolitical]-spot for NATO. Erdogan has less value for NATO than the country he’s (still) president of.
Not going to happen. The US use their bases for sorties over Iraq & general neighbourhood.
No chance.
All the lefties support Erdogan…… Sad state of affairs
They do?
That’s some extra special Daily Mail level of stupidity you’ve got going on there….
“All the lefties support Erdogan”
He’s right wing so no, they don’t.
I think human means supporting democracy or something but yeah ten thousand spoons.
A desire to improve relations with their near neighbours, Russia, or exist from the Petro-Dollar system (Libya), or distribute a countries resources in a more equitable manner (all of the Americas south of Texas) tends to cause ‘spontaneous’ coups all over the world, since about 1945…Erdogan seems like a highly dangerous man on the face of it regardless of the motivations behind the coup
Chicken coup
Hmm. This doesn’t make any sense. Thanks to internet conspiracy truthers, we now know that governments/extra-governmental forces are responsible for most if not all terrorist attacks on civilians throughout the Western world. That’s what they’re capable of. So the idea that a government would stage a coup (all coups are staged, it’s confusing) so cack-handedly that its ulterior power grab motive would be obvious even to the sclerotic EU… it’s laughable.
Someone wants us to believe Erdogan staged this coup. Qui, bono? No, not him but definitely someone. WAKE UP.
I have no idea, but It is possible… governments dont have to attack themselves , they just stand by and do nothing when a small cell of diffracted locals launch an attack , and then implement their plan to ‘put down’ the coup
Fine, but that’s political opportunism, which is exactly what everyone immediately predicated would be Erdogan’s reaction. It’s qualitatively different to planning the precipitating event.
That’s some meta-level conspiracy theory right there.
It was obviously staged, because it is so obvious. The Turkish Intelligence service could have easily persuaded many of these commanders through infiltration and misinformation that a coup would have been supported by many more officers than it was, that it would be the entire military being mobilised rather than a relative handful. The anti-Erdogan officers therefore put their heads above the parapet and are easily purged, meanwhile the troops on the ground where only following orders.
This is the same Turkish Intelligence that is devoutly loyal to Erdogan, and is hugely responsible for both arming and training ISIS to fight both against Assad and the Kurds.
Sorry, don’t mind me, the meta was intentional. Just a little dig at truthers.
+1
We need a sarcasm detector for you Caroline..
Oh be fair, I literally wrote WAKE UP.
Oh right.. You’re too clever for me.. go away. :)
Hey, I never said I wasn’t an irritating smartarse.
Too many arrested too soon for this to be as straight forward as it seems.
My tuppence.
I’d say they knew it was coming and decided to be opportunistic.
I would think it was staged if it wasn’t for that hilarious Facetime dressing down that Erdogan gave on live TV. That must have been humiliating.
No way should Turkey be allowed into EU. They are an authoritarian state with thousands of journalists jailed for no good reason. And they have a very reactionary, violent culture, everything turns into a mass brawl or else one person being torn apart by a blood thirsty mob. Also their president is going to torture the hell out of all involed in the coup, and probably their familes too
If you’d followed Erdogan’s actions since election you’d know he’s a dangerous man.
Is anyone saying he isn’t?
No surprise to hear hat Turkeys talk with Eu, on joining are according to officals progressing but very slowly.
Getting slower and slower and.