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[Cthulhu]

Sometimes they do

Do you honestly think a military uprising and takeover in fucking Turkey will lead to an enlightened secular democracy?

[Baffler]

If memory serves, this wouldn't be the first military coup in Turkey that left the place nicer than it was when they showed up.

[martinuzz]

Military coups in Turkey have historically had a tendency to move the country more towards being a secular republic.

Sometimes they do

Do you honestly think a military uprising and takeover in fucking Turkey will lead to an enlightened secular democracy?

So, yeah, slightly.

Better example perhaps. The USA. Military coup took them from being loyal british crown servants to being a constitutional state.

[Vilanat]

A coup in Turkey? hmm, i would say what a surprise (it is, i actually thought Erdogan managed to defuse the army), but then again, Turkey is known for having an average of a military coup every roughly 20 years, and hey, it's been 19.5 years since the last one.

[martinuzz]

The Turkish army reports that the military coup is succesful.
I guess Erdogan can buy a ticket from Mongolia to Georgia now.

Turkish Facebook, Twitter and Youtube have been taken offline.

[martinuzz]

Military realeased a statement saying their coup is succesful. They say that human rights will be respected, and all foreign relations be maintained as they are.
Furthermore they stress that their main priority now is to ensure laws and constitution are upheld.

The Turkish prime minister however denies the coup being succesful, and says only a small part of the army is rebelling, and security forces are doing everything to restore order. He says that "those responsible will pay the highest price"

[miauw62]

Oh boy.  This just can't be good.

dunno, if it results in getting rd of Erdogan and reinstating secularism, it'd be pretty okay.

Gonna be hard though, seeing that Erdogan isn't even in Turkey atm. He's at a world leader conference in Mongolia.

Yeah man, military coups always lead to much better regimes.

Totally. For sure won't lead to a totalitarian and oppressive regime, no sir.

So, no change?

[Teneb]

Oh boy.  This just can't be good.

dunno, if it results in getting rd of Erdogan and reinstating secularism, it'd be pretty okay.

Gonna be hard though, seeing that Erdogan isn't even in Turkey atm. He's at a world leader conference in Mongolia.

Yeah man, military coups always lead to much better regimes.

Totally. For sure won't lead to a totalitarian and oppressive regime, no sir.

So, no change?

Did Erdogan actively kidnap and torture people who disagreed with the regime? I am honestly asking, I don't know.

[martinuzz]

Yes, mostly journalists. Erdogan's Turkey is on the Amnesty blacklist being in the top 5 of countries with least press freedom, and most journalists in jail.
Apart from that, Erdogan's been pushing hard to genocide all Kurds in Turkey.

[Vilanat]

No matter the results, Turkey is going to greatly suffer from this in the coming years.

Reduced tourism, check.
Capital flight, check.
Reduction of foreign investment, check,
Increased terrorist attacks, check.
Stomping even more civil rights, check.

[SirQuiamus]

Sometimes they do

Do you honestly think a military uprising and takeover in fucking Turkey will lead to an enlightened secular democracy?

Happened with Atatürk, can't see why it couldn't happen again as long as there are Atatürkists in the army.

[martinuzz]

No matter the results, Turkey is going to greatly suffer from this in the coming years.

Reduced tourism

Nah, tourists are used to Turkey having a military coup every once in a while

Capital flight 

Possible

Reduction of foreign investment

Probably not, western investors likely to be happy to see Erdogan go

Increased terrorist attacks

No. Army hates IS more than Erdogan hates IS, plus good chance the army will stop the war with PKK, and PKK will stop terrorist attacks

Stomping even more civil rights

no, military coups in Turkey have been known to improve civil rights by getting rid of despots, and protecting Atatürk's Constitutional Republic.

[TheBiggerFish]

No matter the results, Turkey is going to greatly suffer from this in the coming years.

Reduced tourism

Nah, tourists are used to Turkey having a military coup every once in a while

Capital flight 

Possible

Reduction of foreign investment

Probably not, western investors likely to be happy to see Erdogan go

Increased terrorist attacks

No. Army hates IS more than Erdogan hates IS, plus good chance the army will stop the war with PKK, and PKK will stop terrorist attacks

Stomping even more civil rights

no, military coups in Turkey have been known to improve civil rights by getting rid of despots, and protecting Ataturk's Constitutional Republic.

That last bit is actually kinda sad :v

[Erkki]

The military at least exchanged shots with the police in Istanbul and struck a training center in Ankara.

[martinuzz]

Turkish social media are back online. There some conspiracy theories going on there now that the coup is a fake, staged by Erdogan, so he can seize more power afterwards.