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What Would it Take for US to Extradite Muslim Cleric to Turkey? Print Comment (2) Share: Supporters of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan wave their national flags and hold a portrait of Fethullah Gulen, a U.S.-based Muslim cleric, with Turkish words that read: "the Coup nation traitor...

huh, looks like power is restored to incirik http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/07/22/world/europe/ap-eu-turkey-military-coup-the-latest.html

If Trump is elected Russians will be jumping for joy, he's gotta be the most Russia friendly serious candidate in decades, if not a century.

What I've read is it means this. 1) Enforce curfew anywhere 2) Ban any kind of gatherings 3) Search anyone they want without any notice 4) Enforce people to carry ID's all the time 5) Stop publishing any kind of publication(books, newspapers etc.) 6) Cease organization of any NGO while the...

meh, don't think you would change your mind whatever I showed you. These have sources to them, so feel free to look through it.

nevermind looks like I accidentally posted a quote .

300 Energy Ministry employees dismissed 184 Customs Ministry employees dismissed 8 top-level parliamentary executives removed All Turks require extra documentation to travel outside country 86 Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency (BDDK) employees dismissed 51 Borsa Istanbul...

If you aren't black and/or didn't grow up in the hood you are coming off as a stupid wannabe.:tdown: anyways here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videos_and_audio_recordings_of_Osama_bin_Laden https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsibility_for_the_September_11_attacks He also has a history...

This is crazy hyperbole, NATO military doctrine won't cease to exist, plans will be redrawn, simple as that. And yes Turkey is in a strategically important position, but the best way I've seen it described is that Turkey is like the left nut of NATO. Its important and NATO wants to keep it, but...

Nope, I fully acknowledge the racial tensions most recently on display are an ongoing social issue, but they aren't a risk to our system of government. And I'd like you to explain how you think it will change our system of government if you think otherwise. And there are many people who think...

If Erdogan leaves at the end of his second term I will gladly retract my position that he is aiming to destroy any opposition and Turkey's democracy and make himself ruler. I don't expect him to be leaving then though. I expect him to remove the term limits like Chavez did and deliberately...

lol this is hilarious :rofl:

I don't know what better alternatives there are for Turkey, but the current mass purges of legal public servants are not it without public evidence of their involvement in the coup..

It depends on circumstance. If the democratic process is in danger of being destroyed, preventative action is warranted. Given Turkey's history and cultural views of the military a military involvement in a coup would have different implications than if the same thing happened in the US...

I'd take what hes saying at face value this time CrimsonFury, the EU abolished their death penalty but US states maintain it. There are probably concerns about the usage of the death penalty, such as against political prisoners, but the existence of the death penalty itself is not the issue...

Unfortunately if Turkey goes the way its going where it looks like Erdogan is simply purging all opposition and setting himself up as the new Sultan, then there is a real chance of being booted from NATO, no matter its strategic position. pro-Erdogan anti-West Turks here (I don't think I've...

erm no, there is no benefit to NATO to do this. Erdogan was already pro-NATO and the possibility (and I stress its only a possibility) of an even more pro-West pro-NATO govt coming into power is not worth the risk of destabilizing a fairly important NATO ally. It simply doesn't balance in a...

What? Why would we care we have the death penalty ourselves! (in some states)

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-security-usa-idUSKCN0ZX0J7 Huh, apparently a general sought asylum with the US but was denied too. http://www.dailysabah.com/diplomacy/2016/07/18/us-rejects-asylum-to-incirlik-base-commander-detained-for-complicity-in-failed-coup-attempt

Base is open http://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-security-usa-idUSKCN0ZX0J7 That doesn't make sense, Osama released a video claiming responsibility... there is the proof. Gulen is denying it.