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stui magpie 
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I read something the other day how the captured soldiers were being treated. 
The boy has upped the ante it seems,
| Quote: | It has now been ten days since the attempted coup in Turkey and the ensuing witch-hunt of anyone who might have been involved with the coup is continuing unabated.
On Monday, the purge intensified once more: journalists and academics were detained and ambassadors will be removed.
Turkey announced it would remove some ambassadors from their posts, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said in an interview with private broadcaster Haberturk TV, Reuters reports.
The government also announced the detention of 42 journalists, broadcaster NTV reported, according to Reuters.
31 academics, including professors, were detained as a part of the ongoing purge, Turkish newspaper Hurriyet Daily News, reported. The operation was reportedly carried out in five provinces and based in Istanbul. |
http://www.businessinsider.com.au/academics-are-now-being-jailed-in-turkey-as-post-coup-purge-continues-2016-7
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Pies4shaw 
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| They're actually disbanding universities, now. Not just detaining a few academics but closing down entire universities and sacking the entire staff (international, as well as local) wholesale. |
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stui magpie
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Why not? You can learn everything you need from a Mullah, women don't need an education to keep house and have children and once they go back to the 16th century they won't need technology either.
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It's really sad - such a wonderful place that is now barrelling towards Iran under the Ayatollah Khomeini 
We met some great guys who were Kurds and Muslim - they worked at the place we have stayed every time we have visited. They used to join us on the rooftop terrace that overlooked Sophia Hagia to play backgammon - us with our beers and ciggies and me in jeans and a tee shirt - never a problem! And they always beat us - they love their backgammon!
We kept in touch - 2 have been bashed and hospitalised since the attempted coup for being Kurds and the hotel has had threatening visits .
Evil evil man is Erdoğan 
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Jezza 
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Wokko 
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They're not Arabs, they're Turks, but I agree with the point completely. Like Iran pre revolution, a Jewel of the Islamic world is being flushed down the shitter. |
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Jezza
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Yes, quite right. Should have said "Islamic world" instead.
Still a terrible outcome nonetheless.
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| Wokko wrote: |
They're not Arabs, they're Turks, but I agree with the point completely. Like Iran pre revolution, a Jewel of the Islamic world is being flushed down the shitter. |
Yep, truly sad, especially for the many Turks who wish to remain secular. And much like the Iranian revolution, it is the West who have enabled the Islamists.
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stui magpie
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| Quote: | | Captured military officers raped by police, hundreds of soldiers beaten, some detainees denied food and water and access to lawyers for days. These are the grim conditions that many of the thousands who were arrested in Turkey face in the aftermath of a recent failed coup, witnesses tell Amnesty International. |
Yep, working well.
http://us.cnn.com/2016/07/26/europe/turkey-coup-attempt-aftermath/index.html
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Pies4shaw
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The ABC is reporting that tourism to Istanbul is down 40%. Why would that be?
A court has just ordered the release of 700 (of 19,000) people who have been imprisoned since the "coup attempt". |
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Morrigu
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^ it was down around 35% before the coup.
Paris too - Figures from May provided by the citys tourist board show that the number of Japanese tourists was down 56% in the first quarter of 2016 compared to the previous year while 35% fewer Russian visitors came to Paris. The number of Chinese tourists, which reached a record 1.2 million in 2015, fell by 13.9%.
Tow beautiful cities with so many people employed by the tourism industry in both 
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