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posted by n1 on Friday July 29 2016, @01:11AM   Printer-friendly
from the solving-the-problem dept.

Submitted via IRC for Runaway1956

The Turkish government continues to take action against soldiers and institutions after this month's failed coup attempt.

Amid a state of emergency, 45 newspapers, 16 television stations and three news agencies have been closed, state-run news agency Anadolu said Wednesday.

Anadolu said nearly 1,700 soldiers -- including 87 generals -- have been fired.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan last week said actions were being taken to remove the "threat" raised during the attempt. Officials have fired or suspended tens of thousands as the government intensifies its vast purge.

Source: http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/27/world/turkey-failed-coup-media-soldiers/index.html


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 29 2016, @01:39AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 29 2016, @01:39AM (#381395)

    Seriously though, we've got Stalin, Mussolini, and Hitler standins for Axis Powers 2017+ :) I'll let you figure out which best fits each character :)

  • (Score: 3, Informative) by JNCF on Friday July 29 2016, @02:00AM

    by JNCF (4317) on Friday July 29 2016, @02:00AM (#381400) Journal

    we've got Stalin, Mussolini, and Hitler standins for Axis Powers 2017+ :)

    Yeah, because Russia was totally in the Axis. Here's that famous picture of Stalin with meeting his wartime allies Hitler and Mussolini. [ww2today.com]

    • (Score: 4, Informative) by butthurt on Friday July 29 2016, @02:32AM

      by butthurt (6141) on Friday July 29 2016, @02:32AM (#381402) Journal

      You're exaggerating slightly, but there was a non-aggression pact between Germany and the USSR, the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. I wouldn't say they were quite allies, but they did divide up much of Europe between them.

      http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/german-soviet-nonaggression-pact [history.com]

      picture of Stalin shaking hands with Ribbentrop:

      https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/38/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-H27337%2C_Moskau%2C_Stalin_und_Ribbentrop_im_Kreml.jpg [wikimedia.org]

      cartoon of Ribbentrop kissing Stalin's hand, while Molotov looks on and claps:
      https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mucha_8_Wrzesien_1939_Warszawa.jpg [wikimedia.org]

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 29 2016, @03:40AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 29 2016, @03:40AM (#381415)
        Which all ended on June 22, 1941 when Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union.
        • (Score: 1) by butthurt on Friday July 29 2016, @04:33AM

          by butthurt (6141) on Friday July 29 2016, @04:33AM (#381424) Journal

          That did put rather a damper on the pact, didn't it? Then the USSR joined the Allies and that brings us to today.

          • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Unixnut on Friday July 29 2016, @09:42AM

            by Unixnut (5779) on Friday July 29 2016, @09:42AM (#381463)

            And Italy switched sides when it became obvious the Nazis were losing the war.

            Although from what I read of History. Stalin knew when they made the pact that Germany would invade eventually.
            What it did do though, was give some time and breathing room for the USSR to rebuild its army after Stalin purged most of the military brass (actually very similar to what Erdogan is currently doing). It was a calculated sacrifice in order to get ready for the actual war. Had the USSR not signed the pact, the Nazis would have declared war much sooner, before the USSR was capable of defending itself. Germany would probably have had much more success on the eastern front, which could have given them far more resources to prosecute the war on other fronts, and maybe turn the tide of WWII in their favour.

            Can't say it was nice, especially to the small countries in the middle, but realpolitik rarely is.

            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 29 2016, @11:49AM

              by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 29 2016, @11:49AM (#381494)

              Maybe, but I do not think USSR was capable of losing a conventional war at that time. The country is more epic than Afghanistan in its capacity to swallow invaders. Maybe extra 10 million Ruskies would have perished, but I doubt Stalin cared.

              • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 29 2016, @09:50PM

                by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 29 2016, @09:50PM (#381758)

                Stalin supposedly said that each dead Russian is one less German bullet.

            • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday July 29 2016, @02:00PM

              by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Friday July 29 2016, @02:00PM (#381529) Journal

              Gotta throw my two cents in here. Without her number one ally, Russia probably would have lost to Germans. And, no, I'm not talking about the US, UK, or any other nation. Russia's primary ally was Old Man Winter. The damned fool Germans didn't understand what they were getting into, touring Russia in the winter. Russia put up a hell of a fight, but without winter to aid them, I don't think it would have been enough.

              Otherwise, I agree with you.

            • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Friday July 29 2016, @04:53PM

              by Gaaark (41) on Friday July 29 2016, @04:53PM (#381608) Journal

              And Italy wasn't much of a factor in the war, anyways... Hitler used to basically cry over how bad Italy's armed forces were. They were cannon fodder, baby-sitting holes in between his defences, leaving his army to do the hard work.

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            • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Friday July 29 2016, @04:56PM

              by Gaaark (41) on Friday July 29 2016, @04:56PM (#381610) Journal

              (actually very similar to what Erdogan is currently doing)

              Yeah, Putin and several others over there are probably eyeing Turkey for dinner.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 29 2016, @06:35AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 29 2016, @06:35AM (#381443)

    Yea, and you got 2 of those 3 stand-ins in the U.S. alone.