Coup d'État in Turkey under way?

[abaris]

2,700 judges......that's a lot of judges.

Cleansing of the supreme court, cleansing of the army, cleansing of civil administrations. Regardless who was behind this coup, as Thumpa said, the plans for this were already existing. And now the threat of reintroducing capital punishment. Because the people wants it, as Erdogan claims.

I hope the EU shows more than verbal balls in this instance. They already made clear that a possible EU membership was unthinkable for a country enforcing the death penalty and that any negotiations would stop at that point. The Litmus test however comes when they actually reintroduce it.

As for the coup itself, our news assume that the military brass got wind of an imminent cleansing of it's ranks and acted prematurely. Which would play to the assumption of the plans being already drawn up at Erdogan's office.