Turkish academics: Remain silent or risk all

Re:Turkish academics: Remain silent or risk all by cm3 on Friday July 29, 2016 @11:02AM (#12187265)

One thing to keep in mind is that Turkey has had at least 4 successful military coups in the last century, so the people are traumatized in that regard and you won't find many who would support any military-led coup at all, even if it were to remove a full-on dictator.

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Re:Turkish academics: Remain silent or risk all by mda on Friday July 29, 2016 @11:47AM (#12187595)

Turkey had 2.5 successfull military coups.

1960 and 1980: Old school military colonel - generals. They thought they should show these puny civilians who the real boss was, hanged a few people including a prime minister, oppressed free speech and media.

1998 was different, it was a half coup, they disbanded government, created a huge vacuum of authority, caused the biggest economical depression in Turkish history, oppressed majority of people (Those pesky conservative people, why do they want to go to university?)

2016: They failed miserably regardless of their motivation. I hope this would be a lesson to them, Turks had enough of this crap.

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Re:Turkish academics: Remain silent or risk all by cm3 on Friday July 29, 2016 @12:26PM (#12187899)

You may be right and just for the record here's what I've included in the count:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960_Turkish_coup_d'%C3%A9tat

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_Turkish_military_memorand...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_Turkish_coup_d'%C3%A9tat

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_Turkish_military_memorand...

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Re:Turkish academics: Remain silent or risk all by sliverstorm on Friday July 29, 2016 @11:33AM (#12187490)

Not to mention, if the first 4 coups didn't work out in the end, what's to make people feel like the 5th coup will wind up better.

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