Coup in Turkey

Has his shopping holiday been ruined?

Sky are broadcasting a split screen of a motorway in istanbul with absolutely nothing going on and a picture of a tank outside somewhere in the other one

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Sky broadcasting scenes of a bridge in Istanbul that has been closed as traffic flows across it :joy: Sky say that it seems only one lane has been closed

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I switched to Fox there for a minute, some lad who I’d say doesn’t have a clue where Turkey is is blaming immigrants.

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Russia Today reporting that Erdogan has left the country.

That’s Turkish tv mate

And we complain about joedotie :smiley:

Erdogan rumoured to have left the country according to RT

Soldiers have taken Turkish tv building

Turks = Wankers *

  • Got robbed there once…

Every Turkish man does two years in the military. They are lunatics

Putin is having a party

:pint:

John Kerry is over in Moscow for it.

Turkish TV playing the weather report in a loop for the last half hour

Someone spot this fella an award.

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Rampant speculation going on across the news channels :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

Ooooft

A coup, how delightfully 70s.

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A fundamental misunderstanding of how the power structure in turkey works. Think of the Turkish military along the lines of a supreme monarch who allows the government to rule until he doesn’t. Same as Egypt or Israel of a few others out that way. The Greeks might even fall into that category

Is Stan Bull still working over there?