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coffeesp00ns  ·  3130 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: ZH: Coup was staged

So, some interesting stuff has happened.

deputy mayor in Istanbul Shot in the Head, in Critical State

Vast Purge in Turkey as Thousands are detained in post-coup backlash including around 13,000 public sector, non military people.

Turkey coup attempt: Risk of Nato suspension as Erdogan's purge intensifies

they're also talking about bringing back the death penalty, which would prevent them from joining the EU.

not bad for 72 hours work?





kleinbl00  ·  3130 days ago  ·  link  ·  

“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.”

― Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

ButterflyEffect  ·  3130 days ago  ·  link  ·  

...wow. That's an amazing quote if it's something he actually said.

kleinbl00  ·  3130 days ago  ·  link  ·  

"One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a GWAR concert."

- Stalin

It appears the actual quote is

    Only your small-minded German philistine who measures world history by the ell and by what he happens to think are ‘interesting news items’, could regard 20 years as more than a day where major developments of this kind are concerned, though these may be again succeeded by days into which 20 years are compressed.

Marx to Engels, Letters 1863

wasoxygen  ·  3130 days ago  ·  link  ·  

There is also a suspiciously-timed WikiLeaks dump expected today; 300,000 AKP internal e-mails.

Deltron_0  ·  3130 days ago  ·  link  ·  

source/link?

wasoxygen  ·  3130 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Coming Tuesday: The #ErdoganEmails: 300 thousand internal emails from Erdoğan's AKP - through to July 7, 2016.

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    3:44 PM - 18 Jul 2016

https://mobile.twitter.com/wikileaks/status/755171322288861184

user-inactivated  ·  3130 days ago  ·  link  ·  

https://wikileaks.org/akp-emails/

It's all Turkish to me, but all the gmail (and hotmail!) addresses and reliance on Google Groups for mailing lists is kind of appalling for a political party anywhere.