Posted on 07/15/2017 8:50:41 PM PDT by dynachrome
Turkey announced the dismissal of another 7,000 police, soldiers and officials on Friday, a new purge on the eve of the one-year anniversary of a military-led coup that failed to topple President Tayyip Erdogan.
July 15 has been declared an annual national holiday of "democracy and unity" and the authorities want people to see the foiling of the putsch as a historic victory of Turkish democracy.
Friday's measures, however, mean that 50,000 people have been arrested and a further 100,000 sacked in response to the thwarted bid to overthrow Erdogan.
Some 7,563 people were fired in the latest cull, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported, with nearly 350 retired army members also stripped of their rank. Hurriyet daily reported that 2,300 police were dismissed.
Saturday will see Turkey hold a major programme of events to mark the coup attempt, blamed by the authorities on US-based Muslim preacher Fethullah Gulen.
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Because the NATO countries are STUPID & SUICIDAL.
He must be getting nervous. Time to liquidate some more officers who might be smarter than he is.
He sounds like a paranoid wacko, like all these dictators. Somebody should start playing some serious head games on this guy and watch him blow all his circuits and start chasing himself around the room.
Erdogan is acting like Stalin. He can purge all he wants, but sooner or later it’s going to come back and bite him in the a$$.
“Erdogan is acting like Stalin. He can purge all he wants, but sooner or later it’s going to come back and bite him in the a$$.”
Here’s hoping that “bite”comes from a bullet.
Ditto. It's time for him to go.
Be careful what you wish for, what you get might be worse, given who’s left.
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