>Early in the morning of July 16 (local time) Turkish Military forces launched a coup in the cities of Ankara and Istanbul claiming to have taken control of the government. >US Embassy in Ankara reports "low flying military jets" in the city >In Istanbul Turkish President Erdogan claims the coup was put down >In Ankara gunfire continues outside the Central Intelligence office >Reportedly a Coup-controlled helicopter was shot down in Ankara by a Loyalist F-16 >Turkish State Media (TRT) seized by military factions loyal to the coup >In Istanbul local police continue to attempt to disperse crowds in the city square using tear gas
It's like they had no plan beyond "show up". Maybe it's true they expected to just bomb Erdogan to death at his hotel and had no contingency plan and made everything up on the fly after that.
blowing people up isn't the best solution when you want to rule over them with some degree of legitimacy.
Brody Cooper
Chief of Staff of the Turkish Army was missing all night, claimed to be held hostage. Just 10 minutes ago news reported that there is a new chief appointed to the position. This means he's either dead, or was also coup supporter.
Thomas Rogers
MANDATORY VIEWING CUTE KITTENS AND SHIT
Chase Hughes
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Owen Lewis
>tfw I would love to blow myself there to kill these Erdogan supporting roaches
Matthew James
Wait, are all those people on the bridge surrendering? Are they team coup?
Zachary Miller
lotta loyalty for a hired gun
Chase Morris
DID THEY JUST PULL OUT A GUY IN AN ARMY UNIFORM?
Eli Barnes
Periscope feed from the bridge:
"Some soldiers are Turkish, but there are also foreign soldiers dressed as Turkish soldiers."
I heard a bunch of people say this in different Twitter feeds (in Turkish).
Andrew Bell
RIP tank crew
Connor Butler
>How soon until live streams of F-16 dogfighting?
Hopefully soon, F-16 on F-16 dogfighting sounds fun.
Parker Powell
>suddenly literally all 8 but 1 of the live streams in Ankara go silent
W-what happened guys?
What the fuck?
Jose Carter
I thought the old one had been rescued a couple hours ago.
Brody Smith
Yeah
They could have mowed everyone down and rolled out
Police don't have anything to open up a tank
They can't even get this shitty APC open
Josiah Butler
Still very limited news from Ankara....
Ayden Scott
They dont want to fire on civilians, who the government told to take to the streets to protest as a meat shield.
Matthew Baker
#BREAKING: Turkey appoints new acting army chief of staff after coup bid: PM
Mason Fisher
What are the chances the army personnel inside the tank are currently calling for air reinforcement (and possibly strikes) in their position?
What is their escape plan in this???
Lincoln Clark
Shit they got them.
RIP.
Hudson Smith
Operation Valkyrie right here
>Attempt made on Erdogan's life >Attempt failed, Erdogan flees >Military springs into action >Looks like they have things under control >Erdogan reveals himself to the people, calling upon them at this point >Erdogan lands safely >Pro-Coup seems to be losing a lot of ground at this point >???
Adrian Reyes
Fucking scum
Benjamin Gonzalez
RELIGION OF PEACE CONFIRMED!
Isaiah Robinson
>coup confirmed now to be led by one of the Air Force divisions >literally barely any air support during this
why even try, these people should be laying down support fire
Nicholas Evans
>stage a coup without the will to carry out what needs to be done and without support
DESU they deserve it, we shouldn't praise incompetence
Colton Garcia
Pro-coup troops are silencing the media.
Cooper Hill
holy shit have they opened the tank?
Dominic Collins
never change pakistan
Isaac Rogers
What is it about muzzies that makes them love to congregate like this? they are like shouting ants always yelling at each other but all in unison somehow
its crazy
Cooper Diaz
I hope its still true that Ankara is under rebel control. That tank crew might at least be remembered as heroes when this is all over. Never thought id be worrying for (part) of turkey.
butthurt brown muslims :D they will probably claim those """white""" soliders are armenians or something .DD
Chase Rivera
>Sandniggers
Carson Nguyen
THEY GOT ONE
HOLY FUCK IT'S OGRE
RIP
Lincoln Diaz
coups winning
Kevin Davis
Bullshit
Levi Hughes
Kek bless shes safe.
Nathaniel Nguyen
anyone have any footage of istanbul? apparently there are riots
Brody Reed
the lynchings of soldiers? yeah they are getting started
Blake Foster
>>In Istanbul local police continue to attempt to disperse crowds in the city square using tear gas tell people to get out on the streets and stay there and then tear gas them
fucking muslims
Jacob Brooks
>We want to overtake our cruel overlords but we don't want to hurt anyone doing so
Jack Thompson
I swear to god, we have to kick those useless turks out of NATO. A tank defeated by unarmed scum.
Matthew Perry
APC
Looks like the police are trying to arrest them
Ethan Ortiz
Are coupshitters done with shitposting how it's not over?
Luke Sullivan
POST MOAR
Joseph Stewart
agreed, they should have never brough tanks and troops to the bridge if they weren't willing to fight people off of it.
they could have been raiding loytalist police stations or airforce strips instead.
