I hope all those citizens who peacefully interfered with that coup attempt, until the soldiers gave in rather than gun down protesters, enjoy their new lack of freedom.
When they’re living in Iraq-like conditions, sans oil, they can look back on this day from the rubble with pride and tell themselves it was all worth it.
What kind of source are you looking for? At least around here it was in every major media outlet. If that’s a conspiracy, the it must be truly vast because it includes major Turkish conservative newspapers.
Admittedly the Google translation is a bit crap, but the passage that is cited everywhere is there.
“This uprising is a gift from God to us because this will be a reason to cleanse our army,” President Recep Taiyp Erdogan stated earlier on Friday night, addressing a large and desperate crowd of his supporters.
President Erdogan reportedly told supporters at Istanbul’s international airport that the coup attempt was the work of the movement led by the exiled preacher Fethullah Gulen, which he denounced as “an armed terrorist organisation”. He was quoted as calling the attempted coup “a gift from God,” reportedly saying it would help cleanse the military of "members of the gang” who would “pay a heavy price for their treason”.
Standing up to a military coup is a dangerous thing. I say good for the Turkish people.
However, now we will see Erdogan become even more Erdogan-ish.
That’s what I was looking for, a statement in context. Thanks.
Like I said, when I was checking earlier, the reports seemed secondhand, and just focused on “gift from god.” I don’t think it’s a media conspiracy, but the when, where, and to whom was missing at the time I read it, and I saw reports linking to other reports, which is a red flag. Emerging news tends to work that way. You don’t need to be a conspiracist to ask for a source.
Sorry, most the actual articles (i.e. not headlines/tweets…) I had seen included at least that much context. So I took for granted that you had already seen it and thought that was what you were doubting.
It depends how cynical you are about the context.
I went tramping (a.k.a. hiking) on Thursday morning with the kids, and only got back this afternoon. I missed
Fuck this shit. I think I might go tramping again. It’s much saner, and far quieter.
Many years ago, I went on a fairly spectacular bender for my 20th birthday. Couple of grams of meth, eight tabs of acid, a few sixpacks of beer, bottle of whisky, etc.
When I came back to reality, I discovered that while I’d been “away” there’d been a sudden leadership coup in one of the major political parties and a few world-famous celebrities had died.
It felt like I’d accidentally wandered into an alternate universe.
Yeah… ho hum. Giving a like feels way too glib at the moment.
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