This was from a few days ago. University faculties also getting purged: http://www.nature.com/news/turkey-pu...d-coup-1.20283
This was from a few days ago. University faculties also getting purged: http://www.nature.com/news/turkey-pu...d-coup-1.20283
jpx7 (07-25-2016), The Chosen One (07-25-2016)
So, stage a fake coup, get all those who don't like the government to come out into the open to support it, then spring the trap?
BedellBrave (07-25-2016)
50PoundHead (07-25-2016)
50PoundHead (07-25-2016), jpx7 (07-25-2016), The Chosen One (07-25-2016)
My kids might, they get into that stuff. Not my cup of tea though. My daughter told me one of the main goals of the game was supposed to be to get people up off their backsides and moving around. I suppose that may be one good thing to come from it, though I can't really think of anything else, except maybe that Chuck Norris has proven yet again that he can conquer any challenge. :)
Our folks are out now, PTL! Not getting any better...
BedellBrave (07-30-2016)
Cartoon that kind of says it all. Great news on your friends Bedell!
http://www.economist.com/news/world-...8-kals-cartoon
BedellBrave (07-30-2016)
I had actually hoped to visit them all soon. If I do that it will have to be in another country. This all makes me so sick. If this continues the Islamists will have full control and secularists (which had been so strong in Turkey) and minorities will have completely lost.
BedellBrave (07-30-2016)
To think it's been less than a century that the secularists have had any real root in Turkey and all of the progress the country has made due to the changes made in the 1920s. It is difficult to believe what is happening.
BedellBrave (07-30-2016)
BedellBrave (07-30-2016)
BedellBrave (07-30-2016)
I agree, neither democracy in general or western culture is for everybody. I can see how a really old society would prefer to stick with more "traditional" ways, but to go back to the 7th century and something as crazy as Sharia law is beyond me. That's crazier than letting BOTH Trump and Hilldog be president at the same time!!! Besides that the Turks haven't even really been in that area longer than since around the 600s m/l.
BedellBrave (07-30-2016)
sad that all the conversations and fears i heard from Turks 10 years ago when i was there are turning out to be true/their worst nightmare
Last edited by goldfly; 08-12-2016 at 05:41 PM.
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