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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: 2) by driverless on Friday July 29 2016, @01:54PM

    by driverless (4770) on Friday July 29 2016, @01:54PM (#381528)

    No, it's not the salute, it's the process whereby all dissent was suppressed and everyone in any kind of official position was made to conform to the party line.

    How did you Google "gleichschaltung" (which leads to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleichschaltung) and end up with "Nazi salute"?

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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday July 29 2016, @02:14PM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Friday July 29 2016, @02:14PM (#381535) Journal

    Hmmmm - good question. I speak no German, of course. I clicked a page with gleichschaltung in the title, and wikipedia as part of the address. Looked legit to me. As the page loaded, I got a flash of the word Gleichschaltung as it appears on the page you link to. Just a momentary flash, and the page I linked to loaded instead. That makes me scratch my head - why did I get redirected in the middle of the page loading?

    I probably should have realized that it was a redirect, since I did see the word I was searching for flash on and off the screen.

    • (Score: 2) by driverless on Saturday July 30 2016, @04:19AM

      by driverless (4770) on Saturday July 30 2016, @04:19AM (#381877)

      I speak no German, of course.

      "I speak French to order expensive wine in restaurants, Spanish to communicate with the help, and German... you know, just in case". Although today that quote would say Chinese for the last one, unless Trump wins, in which case Russian.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 29 2016, @05:28PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 29 2016, @05:28PM (#381621)

    No, it's not the salute, it's the process whereby all dissent was suppressed and everyone in any kind of official position was made to conform to the party line.

    Oh, so it's what both Trump and Clinton are doing within their own parties, then.

  • (Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Friday July 29 2016, @06:21PM

    by LoRdTAW (3755) on Friday July 29 2016, @06:21PM (#381653) Journal

    Cut him some slack. He's old.