6/28/2016 5:56:19 PM

Yeah, looks pretty bad. Still waiting to see who claims responsibility for this one. Turkey is in a bad way.

I've seen that state media isn't even reporting the bombing.

Update: now seen that ISIS is claiming responsibility. John Kerry just trotted out new, I'm sure administration mandated phrase, "non-state violent actors".

[Edited on June 28, 2016 at 6:17 PM. Reason : Update]

6/28/2016 6:09:00 PM

not constantinople

6/28/2016 6:12:26 PM

List of suspects:

radical Islamists

6/28/2016 6:30:52 PM

6/28/2016 6:45:56 PM

we should make a law to stop this

6/28/2016 7:25:37 PM

Wow at the video of the cop shooting one of the bombers, getting out of dodge and then the asshole blowing himself up. Probably saved dozens of lives.

Also it looked like a horrendously planned attack. Terrorist was just running around like an idiot..

6/28/2016 7:31:44 PM

^^^^ I think you meant [redacted]

6/28/2016 7:33:09 PM

Listen to John Kerry please, the new approved term is non-state violent actors.

6/28/2016 7:34:53 PM

Link to said video?

6/28/2016 7:40:24 PM

#istanbullshit

6/28/2016 10:02:42 PM

Quote :

"Listen to John Kerry please, the new approved term is non-state violent actors."

so?

6/28/2016 10:42:47 PM

https://twitter.com/sco1905/status/747902680220205056

Here's a video of one of the attackers being shot, immobilized, people fleeing him, then him setting off his bomb.

It's too blurry to be gory, but it's still very gruesome .

6/28/2016 11:16:50 PM

^^ it's common knowledge that if you say "radical Islamic terrorism" three times fast it goes away. It's the reverse-Beetlejuice.

6/29/2016 9:25:26 AM

Maybe the terrorists really want it to be called "Islamic terrorism" by the authorities and world leaders, because they really think they're doing this in the name of a religion and their god, and it's a righteous and just thing.

and maybe it really pisses them off when it's not called "islamic terrorism" by authorities and world leaders?

and maybe kerry and others aren't officially calling it "Islamic terrorism" because they don't want to give the terrorists the satisfaction?

or something like that?

[Edited on June 29, 2016 at 10:19 AM. Reason : ]

6/29/2016 10:04:25 AM

is it time to terrorize the terrorists yet?

6/29/2016 10:07:43 AM

Are those his shoes landing in the foreground of that video? That footage is pretty fascinating/horrifying.

6/29/2016 1:17:43 PM

Why not just fucking shoot the guy, jesus christ. put him down before he can blow himself up.

6/29/2016 1:35:36 PM

religion of peace

6/29/2016 1:47:01 PM

Islam is a peaceful religion. There just happen to be murderous extremists who happen to be Islamic.

6/29/2016 1:49:42 PM

Quote :

"_______ is a peaceful religion. There just happen to be murderous extremists who happen to be ________."

6/29/2016 1:50:33 PM

always makes me laugh when people post that

I can only imagine how proud of themselves they are when they type it out

6/29/2016 1:51:46 PM

^^ that's certainly the false narrative echoed by SJWs and liberal media in echo chambers

6/29/2016 1:54:24 PM

You would think with monthly artacks turkey would push harder to fight Isis.

6/29/2016 3:22:01 PM

Going back to that video, the blast radius isn't huge, so I'm assuming the vests are full of ball bearings or something, to do more damage?

I read where the guy in the video's only purpose was to cause enough chaos at the front gates to let the other two slip in unnoticed, because that airport is actually on of the more secure airports.

6/29/2016 3:25:51 PM

Quote :

"Why not just fucking shoot the guy, jesus christ. put him down before he can blow himself up."

How often do suicide bombers use some kind of dead's man switch? Cops might be trained to GTFO if the dude is wounded and wearing a bomb.

6/29/2016 3:28:33 PM

Quote :

"Why not just fucking shoot the guy, jesus christ. put him down before he can blow himself up. "

Dead man's switch, remote trigger (cell phone), timer back up, etc etc

Cop did everything right here and probably saved a lot of lives, no need to armchair quarterback it.

6/29/2016 3:53:17 PM

That cop was a trained pro that acted cool and saved dozens of lives. Fuck this "good guy with a gun" shit. Any random idiot would have opened fire before having a clean shot. That guy knew exactly what to do.

6/29/2016 5:33:09 PM

3rd largest airport in Europe, fyi. So there could have been a LOT more casualties.

6/29/2016 6:22:24 PM

Maybe Erdogan shouldn't have enabled and helped ISIS for two years..

6/29/2016 9:19:25 PM

^ Yeah, reaping the what he sowed in the name of an excuse to bomb the shit out of the Kurds

My wife is Turkish and she keeps wondering where the Facebook profile pic filter is to let everyone have the Turkish flag overlay. Guess turkey is too brown for Zuckerberg and company

6/29/2016 10:24:25 PM

Quote :

"My wife is Turkish and she keeps wondering where the Facebook profile pic filter is to let everyone have the Turkish flag overlay. Guess turkey is too brown for Zuckerberg and company"

exactly.

remember when they made the paris flag overlay? within +-1 day of that attack, there was a terrorist attack in beirut and one in africa somewhere, but there were no flag overlays for them.

by the way, are you learning turkish?

6/29/2016 11:29:44 PM

people would think its the chinese flag maybe

6/30/2016 10:20:14 AM

^sadly, you're more right than wrong.

i am slowly learning turkish. my 3 year old is more advanced than I am. once the kids are a little older I will have time to commit to a program like rosetta stone to augment the "immersion" I get at home from time to time.

[Edited on June 30, 2016 at 10:25 AM. Reason : .]

6/30/2016 10:25:16 AM

So, uh, is a military coup happening right now?

7/15/2016 3:50:07 PM

yeah shit appears to be going down

7/15/2016 4:03:27 PM

Military coup in my NATO member country? It's more likely than you think.

7/15/2016 4:04:43 PM

Bridges shut down. Tanks moving in on the airport. Low flying jets. Gunfire. Helicopters.

7/15/2016 4:07:18 PM

Where you seeing this?

7/15/2016 4:16:26 PM

https://mobile.twitter.com/search?q=Turkey

7/15/2016 4:19:17 PM

Some reports that the coup failed

[Edited on July 15, 2016 at 4:21 PM. Reason : ]

7/15/2016 4:20:25 PM

WOWZA.

7/15/2016 4:22:33 PM

how you gonna fail a coup when you control the military?

fuckin amateurs

7/15/2016 4:28:18 PM

guess they didn't have all of it

7/15/2016 4:29:25 PM

Quote :

" Turkish PM says the attempt doesn't amount a military coup but there are some groups in military behaving irresponsibly"

LOL. Go home turkey. you're drunk.

7/15/2016 4:32:12 PM

Fucking wild. Erdogan is pretty awful, he's moving in a very dictatorial direction. Turkey has had military government on a couple of occasions before so this isn't unprecedented.

It'll be interesting to see what motivated this, who was involved (maybe ISIS supporters, the Russians, maybe just anti-Erdogan, etc.).

7/15/2016 4:32:21 PM

And as I posted this last thing Reuters is saying that the military has taken control of the state.

7/15/2016 4:34:01 PM

reddit live thread:
https://www.reddit.com/live/x9gf3donjlkq
worldnews thread:
https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/4t0zj4/coup_against_erdogan_in_turkey/#icon-live

7/15/2016 4:42:42 PM

i really don't know enough about current events in turkey, but is this a continuation of our proxy war with russia? erdogan wanted to get friendly with assad/russia so the military took over?



[Edited on July 15, 2016 at 4:51 PM. Reason : nevermind i guess they still aren't quite that friendly ]

7/15/2016 4:49:16 PM

Nah. Erdogan and the military have had an icy relationship for a while now because he jailed some high ranking military officials. He's also been attempting to make himself into a Putin style semi-dictator. He's cracked down on free speech, he's been making the government less secular, etc.

The modern state of Turkey was founded as a secular government and the military was charged by Ataturk with keeping it that way. I think this is one to do with Erdogan than anything else.

^Yeah, Turkey and Russia are historic enemies. They aren't likely to buddy up any time soon.

[Edited on July 15, 2016 at 4:55 PM. Reason : Cvgh]

7/15/2016 4:54:48 PM