Soldiers at Bosphorus bridge surrender. Turkey has one of world's largest armies. This wasn't the whole army by far.https://twitter.com/140journos/status/754163370425585664 …
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted 140journos
Soldiers at Bosphorus bridge surrender. Turkey has one of world's largest armies. This wasn't the whole army by far.https://twitter.com/140journos/status/754163370425585664 …
zeynep tufekci added,
To everyone asking if the Turkey coup was "staged." Umm, no. Forget everything else. You can't pull this off. Planes bombed parliament.
I get mistrust of Turkey's pretty sordid mass media but we had info all night on social media. It's real, but clearly different from past.
Most likely options, smallish faction within military attempted, and had some planes but not large number of ground forces to cover it all.
If you *wanted* to stage a "fake" coup, the first thing is to turn off the internet, btw. This much info flowing makes "faking" implausible.
zeynep tufekci Retweeted
Yes, that is so applicable to 2016, with hundreds of live feeds around the country, millions online, etc. Genius. https://twitter.com/gaypatriot/status/754168466089934848 …
zeynep tufekci added,
zeynep tufekci Retweeted Jeet Heer
Also this is ridiculous. This is no myth; the issue is quite real. What Erdogan does as response another discussion.https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/754158753973276672 …
zeynep tufekci added,
I believe the coup has failed, It is now clear it wasn't that large or full chain-of-command. Erdogan blames Gulenists; a plausible option.
zeynep tufekci Retweeted ProfJeffJarv.eth
This is not satire, or funny at the moment. Facetime *was* crucial, and video orientation *was* an actual issue.https://twitter.com/profjeffjarviss/status/754171672199041024 …
zeynep tufekci added,
People have gotten so used to making fun of internet hype that they can't realize momentous events before them. Turkey coup attempt was one.
Every major opposition party, organization & leading dissidents in Turkey were on the record opposing the coup attempt early. We shall see.
Could someone have known about a small coup in the works and let it go ahead?
did they have a choice: Once they saw coup was not full military, any endorsement would risk being caught in Erdogan's retaliation.
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