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Constant Hamprince
Oct 24, 2010

by exmarx
College Slice

gfanikf posted:

You think that F-16 could try bombing the airport instead of parliament.

Parliament is in Ankara.

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Bolow
Feb 27, 2007

holocaust bloopers posted:

this would be a good time to desert the turkish army for all those enlisted folk

*conscripted :smith:

Marshal Prolapse
Jun 23, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Don't stand in front of a tank.
:nms: http://i.4cdn.org/pol/1468632454581.webm :nms:

boop the snoot
Jun 3, 2016
NASA just released their latest picture of earth.

Nostalgia4Infinity
Feb 27, 2007

10,000 YEARS WASN'T ENOUGH LURKING
Nope.

Blind Rasputin
Nov 25, 2002

Farewell, good Hunter. May you find your worth in the waking world.


Turkenman square

bloops
Dec 31, 2010

Thanks Ape Pussy!
holy poo poo

bloops
Dec 31, 2010

Thanks Ape Pussy!
that was absolutely awful in so many ways

kill me now
Sep 14, 2003

Why's Hank crying?

'CUZ HE JUST GOT DUNKED ON!

holocaust bloopers posted:

that was absolutely awful in so many ways

at least he was standing in the middle and didn't get lunched by the tracks.

Diabeesting
Apr 29, 2006

turn right to escape
I dont think that tanker could have stopped in that distance even if he had tried :smith:

Constant Hamprince
Oct 24, 2010

by exmarx
College Slice
yeah i'm gonna say don't try to one-up tiananmen square guy when the tank is doing 60

Marshal Prolapse
Jun 23, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
http://twitter.com/agirecudi/status/754130859045838848

boop the snoot
Jun 3, 2016

did it hit the target or miss the target?

what was the target?

Marshal Prolapse
Jun 23, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

TBeats posted:

did it hit the target or miss the target?

what was the target?

I have no clue, this is the news we're stuck with now.

Nostalgia4Dogges
Jun 18, 2004

Only emojis can express my pure, simple stupidity.

So I don't know poo poo about Turkish politics and such other than all Turkish seemingly live or want to live in Germany/Western Europe

So it's just third world poo poo?


Teflon Don posted:

Portugal did it better

Yeah this was widely successfully/good and a decent read if you're bored

Nostalgia4Dogges fucked around with this message at 03:04 on Jul 16, 2016

Marshal Prolapse
Jun 23, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Edit: Never mind just Chinese poo poo blowing up.

Marshal Prolapse fucked around with this message at 03:07 on Jul 16, 2016

orange juche
Mar 14, 2012



gfanikf posted:

Edit: Never mind just Chinese poo poo blowing up.

Also fake btw

Waroduce
Aug 5, 2008
so is he back and in power or what?

Constant Hamprince
Oct 24, 2010

by exmarx
College Slice

Waroduce posted:

so is he back and in power or what?

He's not totally in the clear yet but the coup people came at the king and missed so I'd say things are unlikely to go well for them.

Riot Carol Danvers
Jul 30, 2004

It's super dumb, but I can't stop myself. This is just kind of how I do things.

Constant Hamprince posted:

He's not totally in the clear yet but the coup people came at the king and missed so I'd say things are unlikely to go well for them.

Or anyone, now that he has already proclaimed he's going to basically "cleanse" the army. Gonna be real fun times ahead now that he has near unlimited power

PookBear
Nov 1, 2008

reminder that we now have a US presidential candidate who has gone on record to support a what looks like failed coup.

The Orgasm Sanction
Dec 30, 2006

Svelte

Reverand maynard posted:

reminder that we now have a US presidential candidate who has gone on record to support a what looks like failed coup.

I missed this, who, what?

Riot Carol Danvers
Jul 30, 2004

It's super dumb, but I can't stop myself. This is just kind of how I do things.

Reverand maynard posted:

reminder that we now have a US presidential candidate who has gone on record to support a what looks like failed coup.

Wasn't that a fake Twitter account?

mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

Prepare for my priapic projectile's exalted penetration
Nap Ghost

Intel5 posted:

I missed this, who, what?

Unless something else happened, it was a parody account tweet.

https://twitter.com/realDenaldTrump/status/754063737473101824

PookBear
Nov 1, 2008

mlmp08 posted:

Unless something else happened, it was a parody account tweet.

https://twitter.com/realDenaldTrump/status/754063737473101824

oh I honestly can't tell the difference

Nostalgia4Dogges
Jun 18, 2004

Only emojis can express my pure, simple stupidity.

@realdenaldtrump

Riot Carol Danvers
Jul 30, 2004

It's super dumb, but I can't stop myself. This is just kind of how I do things.

Reverand maynard posted:

oh I honestly can't tell the difference

No blue check next to the name too

mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

Prepare for my priapic projectile's exalted penetration
Nap Ghost

Nostalgia4Dicks posted:

@realdenaldtrump

Frosted Flake
Sep 13, 2011

Semper Shitpost Ubique

So is the situation still fluid or did guys return to barracks to await prison? You'd think once the die is cast you keep fighting.

Seizure Meat
Jul 23, 2008

by Smythe

Waroduce posted:

so is he back and in power or what?

It's leaning that way, but it's not 100% until the dude rolls into Ankara. Istanbul isn't the capitol of Turkey, after all.

orange juche
Mar 14, 2012



Nostalgia4Dicks posted:

@realdenaldtrump

Hot Karl Marx
Mar 16, 2009

Politburo regulations about social distancing require to downgrade your Karlmarxing to cold, and sorry about the dnc primaries, please enjoy!
So could this actually have been a false coup to gain more power or is that still pretty :tinfoil: still?

Smiling Jack
Dec 2, 2001

I sucked a dick for bus fare and then I walked home.

I don't think it's a fake coup but Erdogan might have known of a poorly planned corporals coup and let it go forward.

That said, this isn't over yet.

Seizure Meat
Jul 23, 2008

by Smythe

Hot Karl Marx posted:

So could this actually have been a false coup to gain more power or is that still pretty :tinfoil: still?

Well, he's talking now, actually, and he just said

"This is not the old Turkey. This is the new Turkey"

Duzzy Funlop
Jan 13, 2010

Hi there, would you like to try some spicy products?
I'm gonna miss old-Turkey with its regular idiocy.

Frosted Flake
Sep 13, 2011

Semper Shitpost Ubique

So how does a coup "fail"? Is it just because they haven't killed him yet?

psydude
Apr 1, 2008

Trump's VP pick got sidelined by international events for a second straight day lol

Dead Reckoning
Sep 13, 2011

Frosted Flake posted:

So how does a coup "fail"? Is it just because they haven't killed him yet?

When you fail to gain more legitimacy either through popular recognition or force or arms than the government you're overthrowing. When you hang it all out there and no one backs your play, it's either the firing squad, suicide, or going down fighting the rest of the army.

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k9bFzgXeXE

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iyaayas01
Feb 19, 2010

Perry'd

ASAPI posted:

Wasn't today going to be the "Day of Rage" for the #BLM camp? Did they just give up, or no one cares since we might be watching WW3 start?

as best I can tell "day of rage" was something that was solely fabricated by a couple of teenagers claiming to belong to Anonymous and then amplified in the infinite echo chamber of local news plus law enforcement bulletins. I think I saw at least 5 different "FWD: FWD: RE: FWD: ***HOT*** MUST READ" emails at work today from different entities cautioning military personnel about being anywhere near the alleged protests, which is a pretty good sign it was all complete BS.

also I'm not gonna say I called it but

iyaayas01 posted:

Erdogan will consolidate power behind a civilian Islamic movement, the "coup plotters" (anyone deemed too pro-secular by the AKP) will be "dealt with," whatever shadow of freedom of the press/assembly/etc still remained in Turkey will die under "emergency" powers, and the Kurds will get hosed even harder.

e: also (as was pointed out earlier) lol if you thought the Turkish IS express was bad before, you ain't seen nothin' yet

I mean I guess hopefully that last bit doesn't happen but lol it's totally going to happen, he's opening the floodgates after this

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