Military going nuts in turkey, Bridges closed?

Be safe and go somewhere else seeing as though you're going in 5 days. Italy is lovely!!

the Summer it raineth everye daye, but the May cometh into flower in Julye

the Summer it raineth everye daye, but the May cometh into flower in Julye

God, I really hope this doesn't escalate...

Isn't a similar narrative pushed by any coup? You don't get all those soldiers to march through their own streets if you tell them you're going to be the next big dictator.

Live phone call from Erdogan: I call upon the people of my country to come out to the streets, to airports and stand against these rebels. These rebels will not win and will pay a heavy price.

Can we all go to your safe cave until the insane events of 2016 have blown over?

But I think my parents will still insist on going to Turkey. I'm just hoping officials ban tourists from going to Turkey or something so we don't have to go

We can only hope its a coup, anything is better than Erdogan

Friday night is always the best time for a coup, imo, since things can settle down before the working week

Edit: here's the Reddit live thread. https://www.reddit.com/live/x9gf3donjlkq

Summary: Looks like a group (now looks like they are Ataturkists) in the Turkish military took their head general hostage, taken over TV stations, airport, bridges, shot down a police helecopter, called a curfew and martial law, social media partially blocked. The military statement is that secularism needs to be restored. Erdogan's party called for people to get on the streets. Unfortunately Erdogan is apparently safe, and his PM is and has been claiming for a while that the coup has failed. Erdogan has issued a statement from an undisclosed secure location.

Apparently, Turkish military sees itself sort of as the constitutional guardians of secularism (the legacy of Ataturk). They are expected to kick off a coup if the government gets too religious.