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The Grand Turk
4 Turkish Former Soldiers Sentenced to Life for Attempted Coup
2021-04-08
[PUBLISH.TWITTER] A Ottoman Turkish court on Wednesday sentenced four former soldiers to life in jail for their roles in a failed 2016 bid to oust President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
, state news agency Anadolu reported.

They were jugged
Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out!
as part of a trial of 497 suspects in Ankara looking into the presidential guard's actions during the coup attempt, which included a raid on the state broadcaster.

Ankara has long blamed Fethullah Gülen
... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world. Gülen and Erdogan used to be really good friends, but only one of them could be sultan, and Gülen lost...
, a former ally of Erdogan who lives in Pennsylvania, and launched a widespread crackdown on his network, which Ankara refers to by the acronym ’FETO’. Gulen denies any involvement.

Since the failed coup, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund...
has detained some 292,000 people over suspected links to Gulen and has suspended or sacked more than 150,000 civil servants. Hundreds of media outlets have been shut and dozens of opposition politicians have been jugged
Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out!
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