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Aral Balkan
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I mainly post on my blog at https://ar.al  (RSS: https://ar.al/index.xml ) and interact on my Mastodon https://mastodon.ar.al . Please follow me there.

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    Aral Balkan‏ @aral 19 Jul 2016

    No, really, 50,000 people have been detained/suspended in Turkey. Fifty thousand people. Fifty. Thousand. People. #democracy #turkeypurge

    12:30 PM - 19 Jul 2016
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      2. Tinha Johansson‏ @tinhajohansson 19 Jul 2016
        Replying to @aral

        I think they passed that number a while ago..

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      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 19 Jul 2016
        Replying to @tinhajohansson

        The counter is spinning rather dizzyingly.

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      4. Tinha Johansson‏ @tinhajohansson 19 Jul 2016
        Replying to @aral

        yes to say the least.

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      1. Peta Baxter‏ @PetaBax 20 Jul 2016
        Replying to @aral

        @TheSandlings It's unreal :-(

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      1. Servane Mouazan‏ @ServaneMouazan 19 Jul 2016
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        what an efficent turnaround blimey. That's system re-design promptly executed.... :-(

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      1. Project Hope‏ @Taratina16 19 Jul 2016
        Replying to @aral @TitusL108

        sounds like a Gulen purge!

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      1. Gav Gordon‏ @GavGordonToGo 19 Jul 2016
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        @elchienbekker total inside job

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      1. Xof assures you the slides will be up soon‏ @Xof 19 Jul 2016
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        I'm very impressed that 50,000 people managed to keep a conspiracy private.

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      1. Yves Peters‏ @BaldCondensed 19 Jul 2016
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        What happened in Turkey is very transparent. And extremely worrisome.

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      1. Dr. Rad, Ph.D.‏ @doctorisinnow 20 Jul 2016
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        Hello Brave New World, here we come!

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      1. Gray Goods‏ @graygoods 20 Jul 2016
        Replying to @aral

        Do you have a source for that number? It's possible, sure, but is anyone keeping track? @paulhrosenberg

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      1. Johanssonson‏ @malwrandpickles 19 Jul 2016
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        Also whenever they start to use the word 'purge' to describe what they are doing, things are not looking on the up.

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      1. Johanssonson‏ @malwrandpickles 19 Jul 2016
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        That was the best worst planned coup I have seen for a while.

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      1. Rev. Pud Dudley‏ @RevPudDudley 19 Jul 2016
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        so there's someplace almost as vomitous as Egypt

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      1. WikiTerms‏ @WikiTerms 19 Jul 2016
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        And it will have to be some kind of grassroots economic opposition /non-cooperation, organised & implemented outside of Turkey.

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      1. WikiTerms‏ @WikiTerms 19 Jul 2016
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        If anything effective is going to happen to stop Erdogan & Islamisation spiral etc it will have to be organised at a grassroots level

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      1. WikiTerms‏ @WikiTerms 19 Jul 2016
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        At a state level, it seems unlikely international community will do anything to stop this - apart from pious words about human rights

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      2. Rod Lockwood‏ @WhitePhoenixUS 19 Jul 2016
        Replying to @aral

        Now would be a good time for a real coup attempt.

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      3. Jordy Schonewille‏ @JordySchonewill 19 Jul 2016
        Replying to @WhitePhoenixUS @aral

        *grabs tinfoil hat* What if the coup mastermind foresaw this and want to use this to plot a coup with more support?

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      4. Rod Lockwood‏ @WhitePhoenixUS 19 Jul 2016
        Replying to @JordySchonewill @aral

        What good would that do, if Erdogan is the one who staged a fake coup in the first place?

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      5. Rod Lockwood‏ @WhitePhoenixUS 19 Jul 2016
        Replying to @WhitePhoenixUS @JordySchonewill @aral

        But what a surprise if someone /else/ attempts a real coup against Erdogan.

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