Human Rights Watch Warns of 'Authoritarian Drift' in Turkey

[The Brain]

I seem to recall that I have seen a similar plot play out many years ago.  It is called the Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones 

Not many enough.

[Maladict]

Then they came for the intelligentsia. Over 20,000 teachers fired, university employees forbidden to travel abroad.

Wait what? Seriously?

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN0ZZ22F?il=0

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/turkey-bans-all-academics-from-travelling-in-latest-post-coup-measures/2016/07/20/f3498b44-4de5-11e6-bf27-405106836f96_story.html

[Valmy]

It looks like it is being pitched as just "temporary" so they can do their investigation. Don't want any of them fleeing the country I guess.

[Crazy_Ivan80]

Even Worse.
According to Turkish embassador to belgium our Flemish govt support terrorists
They alos opened a snitch line for Gülenist living over here 

every phone call made to the snitch line should be traced, ever caller deported and stripped of belgian nationality. If they want to play fascist they should do so in their own shitty country. And that's not Belgium, that's our shitty country!

[The Brain]

Even Worse.
According to Turkish embassador to belgium our Flemish govt support terrorists
They alos opened a snitch line for Gülenist living over here 

every phone call made to the snitch line should be traced, ever caller deported and stripped of belgian nationality. If they want to play fascist they should do so in their own shitty country. And that's not Belgium, that's our shitty country!

Yes, if one telemarketer is caught in the web it's worth it.

[Maladict]

The first decree signed by Erdoğan authorises the closure of 1,043 private schools, 1,229 charities and foundations, 19 trade unions, 15 universities and 35 medical institutions over suspected links to the Gülen movement

[garbon]

This is when they need a coup.

[Archy]

For some reason I'm feel like we're entering the thirties again 
Bickering democracies unable to do much against at threats to their existence

[alfred russel]

This is when they need a coup.

It looks to me like that is what they are getting. Erdogan is showing the failed coup leaders how it is done, and launching his own counter coup.

[Richard Hakluyt]

For some reason I'm feel like we're entering the thirties again 
Bickering democracies unable to do much against at threats to their existence

Yes, I'm hoping for a 1970s style mess but fear that it might be a 1930s one 

[Crazy_Ivan80]

For some reason I'm feel like we're entering the thirties again 
Bickering democracies unable to do much against at threats to their existence

at least the leftists here should be happy. They've been screaming about the 30s for half a decade now, just up the wrong tree (cause the correct tree was filled with their voters)

[grumbler]

For some reason I'm feel like we're entering the thirties again 
Bickering democracies unable to do much against at threats to their existence

Yes, I'm hoping for a 1970s style mess but fear that it might be a 1930s one 

That's makes Trump's choice of "America First" as his slogan even more interesting, doesn't it?

[Martinus]

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/07/31/pictures-huge-pro-erdogan-islamist-rally-germany/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social

This is from Breitbart, so feel free to ignore completely as not fitting your narrative, but in case these photos are not entirely fabricated, this is pretty worrisome. Especially interesting to see that there are hardly any German flags visible. But then Germans are reaping what they sowed.

[Zanza]

What did we sow?

[Martinus]

What did we sow?

A misguided multikulti policy.

Now you are having a 1.5 million minority (and that's just one of many) that doesn't identify at all with Germany or her values, but who support a brutal authoritarian dictator and a version of religion that is not compatible with your values.

I guess in less pussified times this would qualify as an invasion.