Turkey's failed military coup, explained 

turkey not dictator

@@cale5879 Yes, Not Dictator!

@@GoodLuckDearOfficial we voted erdogan with 51 percent

@@aliartk9155 This Is Called Democracy 💗

@@banger2998 Then, Good To Know That. And I Prefer That.

Unfortunately there is no reliability and unbias in these kind of channels because they are dependent. Actually as an arab Muslim, I support Erdogan.

Many people now support erdogan, white peoples just scared erdogan bring back turkey to era like ottoman empire.

@@dugfjhjhg Erdogan is a filthy dictator

@@youssefhany6295 so democracy?

that is why it is dangerous to blindly trust media ..... we always have to consider ulterior motives ...

When's the next election?

+Steven W Oh look, someones talking again without knowing anything. Come to turkey and see for yourself who supports him who does not. Half of Turkey supports him deal with it.

Turkish elections have been monitored by independent (and opposition) NGOs as well as EU. even the fiercely critical opposition NGOs remarked that elections were open and fair. so he has not cheated. and he has a really loyal voting base, which is at least 40 percent of Turkey. this does not mean Erdogan is truly democratic leader though, he has been trying to suppress internal voices like Putin...Once Erdogan does not allow transparency in election process, then all other anti-democratic means would become meaningful. but until then, if we want democracy, we need to live with him. We have just had an election, the next one in 2019.

+Bananas Let's say Donald Trump is elected. Or in this fact Brexit. 52% voted in favour of Brexit and 48% voted to stay. Of course the 48% is going to be angry. Just like Erdogan supporters and oppositions

+Steven W the people came out to support him and were against the military. This is an obvious indication that people of turkey believe the democratic process and respect it

Biased? In what way? What relevant points did they miss that make this video unappreciative of the complexity of the Turkish situation?

+João Baptista it paints Ataturk as democratic figure when he actually was a dictator who oppressed any form of opposition with the most brutal forces. and the video also promotes the idea of the army protecting secularism which is unbelievable!, it did not mention the dark history Turkey has with military coups that is full of executions and jailing of politicians. it also ignored the Turkish people stand on the coup and how thousands of Turkish people demonstrated against the coup and where met by tanks F16 bombing. It also ignored the fact that the coup's failure was mainly due to the failed assassination attempt on Erdogan's life if I didn't know anything about Turkey and watched this video I might have wished the coup had succeeded, but knowing what I know, I would choose the "democratically elected" authoritarian Erdogan over a military coup, I've seen what the coup did to Egypt, ans saw how it committed the worst massacre in recent history. It seems to me that Europeans are more concerned with Erdogan growing authoritarian than they are concerned with the coup itself, which is not completely failed yet btw. I can't believe that I have to explain that coup is bad and democracy is good in 2016!!!!

Erdogan already killed democracy. Democracy isn't just Winning an election it's a complex set of rules and values that Turkey has lost since Erdogan took charge... There hasn't been Democracy in Turkey for years. Hitler was Democratically elected, Survived a coup and ... we know what happened next.

+Toni coni "Hitler was democratically elected" I was kind of expecting that stupid and ignorant comment. First of all Hitler ""lost"" the 1932 election to Hindenburg and was later ""appointed"" chancellor. Secondly, he formed paramilitary groups to oppress demonstrations against him. Then he used emergency powers to closedown newspapers and dismantle other parties, he also executed many of his political opponents and cancelled the election after the death of Hindenburg in 1934. Now I am not a fan of Erdogan, but that doesn't blind me from seeing how stupid this comparison. It is true that Erdogan is increasingly authoritarian but he didn't cancel any election, in fact he can still be overthrown through election, and he didn't close down any media outlets, in fact his face time speech was on a channel that openly opposes him, and he didn't dismantle any political parties, in fact all the Turkish parties strongly opposed the coup. So, No, democracy is not dead in Turkey , and Erdogan, as authoritarian as he is, isn't Hitler.

+Mohamed Monem You can't have true democracy when the government controls what the public hear by censoring and arresting opposition. Therefore there is no democracy in Turkey and Erdogan is a dictator. Erdogan is a dictator, and he is fooling the Turkish population into supporting him.

@@whenyournameisduoduos1282 the right thing according to who? u

@@basit4390 according to the western world; basically the white man

***** ********i what about a minority oppressing a majority?

no demoracy we plans bam bam bam

Well, the day Turkey implements Sharia over all matters, civil and criminal, and abolishes democracy and secularism, that day will be the start of the fall of the modern state of Turkey.

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But the one in Myanmar didn't failed

It wasn't a coup I don't think you understand what a coup is.

​@@flaminmongrel6955 You are right .It had to be THE FAILED CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA EXPLAINED.

If a leader is illegitimate or chooses to stay as president forever like Erdoğan, it is not a coup. It is called crushing the Insurrection.

If the US were really behind it then Erdoğan would be jailed by now

@@ufkun20 how

@@gtr3126 Not Usa. Erdogan and his allies trying to clear kemalism from all Turkey. So, military attempted a coup to take over country.

@@gtr3126 They destroyed secularism. Now their target is kemalism.

@@ceyhun9423 so ur saying the us had nothing to do with the coup

totally! thought of that as well!

Also a bit like the lead up to Stalin's Great Purge, after fear of a Trotskyite plot.

exactly

Word. I shared the same when it was happening. We already started to see the consequences, and it'll only get worse from here.

Oh i wonder who could have done that one~

Cee Cee Everything you dislike is propaganda and everything you like is truth. Don't try to deny it. Lol.

@@yuu9258 true.

Literal propaganda... So we're bombing Syria's terrorist groups?.. the same people Assad wants dead? Wait weren't we fighting Assad who is also fighting the terrorists? ;)

@@javiergames6943 The syrian civilwar is a really complicated situation. Rebellion against rebels, multi-sided groups and also a gamble

zionist vox on duty

true, another documentary on Erdogan by was presenting him as if the country is a dictatorship and people are dying from hunger. you will never hear in Vox that Erdogan is the one to change Turkey from third world country to a very developed country in very short period, manufacturing its own technology and weapons.

You're sick.

+tyson bethony Why?

me too

Because Erdogan is a wannabe dictator and rips democratic rights off of people.

You know nothing about coups. Go and wish this for your own country.

exactly.90 percent of the video is about how Erdogan is the bad guy and how the plotters are the good guys...

No.I live in turkey,erdoğan even actually sent someone to court cuz he said FROG to him

@@prosopro3146 what does that have to do with this topic dude?

Not true, Erdoğan ruined Turkey but you egotistical maniacs are too blind to see it. I have lived in Turkey since ‘08 and I have seen one a stable and democratic nation turn into a dictatorship.

@@RobloxianX Radical Islamist nuts usually love Erdogan and despise Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. They don't really care with Turkish people, all they want is to you all, Turkish people, to become another Arab country

Why do you support Erdogan's party?

"a Military coup was a truly stupid idea and would have lead to the destruction of Turkey" like all those coups in Thailand?

+Ahmed Adam No, when you have a leader who imprisons journalists, generals and political descents you lose the right to talk of democracy, he has disobeyed the constitution and Ataturks legacy. Ergodan is an authoritarian who will run Turkey straight into the ground.

You realize he jails journalists, and arrests judges he didn't like right, he doesn't support democracy, why (exept out of fear) would you support him?

Lets get real folks. The said arrests before the attempted coup was limited and was done by the Turkish judgement which was supported by Turkish public. The said arrests after the attempted coup is linked to terrorist who staged the attempted coup. Some of you simply and friendly said ''Why do you support Erdogan's party?'' and this part for him as an answer. Because we are living in Turkey and we do know the current and past condition of Turkey from first hand we are the ones who has a right to speak about Turkey and its diplomacies in reality. We do support Erdogan and its party for the adjustments in education, medicine, economics, military, transportation and etc. Basically its called ''common sense''. And I for one never voted for Erdogan and his party. I wanted to in the last elections (I was allowed to vote for 3 times by now) but I could not because we moved and did not report it before the elections. Why I did not vote for him or his party before was simple, because it was not needed. He was already winning without hesitation and did not need the support of people who has some doubts about every political partys in Turkey. After time passed and Turkey got bigger influence on Worlds politics, and cracked voices raised against him just because they can do anything without respecting any lines and Erdogan is in need of the support of public not for elections -because come on be realistic, he will win without the ones with doubt anyway- but to demonstrate power and unity for Turkeys neighbours to trust Turkey and its stability. So I would start to vote if I could in last elections in the light of education and new information that I got and the mindset and mental stability that comes with age but I could not. But I will start as soon as possible. And for an example for a development, 15-20 years ago we would have to wait in line for at least 10 hours on our feet does not matter the circumstances of us to get a ''pill'' with our own money. Last year I got a surgery without waiting in any line and without paying a god damn dime. Every single thing was covered by the government. Public of Turkey is lazy about anything that is not ''real''. Let me explain what I meant. People did not speak up for Erdogan unless they are forced psychologically by opposing minds. They just went to the elections and destroyed any opposing ideas with their votes which does the real impact. They did not went to the streets until the attempted coup where they could die and they did die for their country because it would do the real impact, it would do impact on ''reality''. Public of Turkey does not like social media because it is not reality it is an ''illusion of reality'' which is known by everyone and heavily criticised by shows like Mr. Robot. So sick minds like to live in the illusion and yell about anything they don't know or they don't like but in reality more than half of the public supports Erdogan formally and 80 percent of the public went to the streets to protect democracy and government without hesitation and Erdogan is not an Islamist he is secular, he is a muslim and he is Turk and he would protect these values in any circumcistances because the public will support him. Actually it is revealed that the ones who staged the attempted coup was trying to bring Sharia and Gulen to country as a caliph. As I said Turkish public is lazy about what is not real and what is not real is the opinion of people who is on youtube, what is real is the formal opinions of countries and every single one of them with the elected government except Egypt. You know why but I will say it cause I already started to write long reads. They are with the coup because who is in charge in Egypt came with a coup that condemned by Egyptians. I am a member of Turkish Republic and I am lazy about what is not real because -come on man, please I am exhausted- it is not real. So I will not explain things any further unless it is asked nicely and sanely.My english can be bad because I did not need to practice it in months, don't mind it mind the idea. Be safe folks.

I can definitely say that you dont live in Turkey, if that's been the case you would've known that here in Turkey folks are just struggling and economy goes worse and worse. Once Turkish lira was nearly at same value with dolar, but know dolar is nearly 8 times of Turkish lira. As a Turkish folk myself, I can say you know nothing and we struggle even to live in average.

@@nidanursinanoglu4673 Get rid of him religion has no place in country rule I wish arab countries would understand that and work to separate religion from state

This is real,I live in turkey

He even got someone to pay money cuz he said him to be FROG

@@prosopro3146 you are a western worshiper and a liar.

@@ahmadfrhan5265 how is he a western worshipper is Turkey is western allied? Doesn't make sense.

So what actually happened?

Erdogan will put you in a war....this time with greece...and things will be harder than that night as greeks do not surrwnder as rhe scared soldiers did my friend...

@@panosanestiou3226 Greece is placed 28 worldwide while turkey is placed 11

@@panosanestiou3226 broh if grece go wat is ggoing to losse bcs first u economy is weak and u have many debt

@@almastoti3374 well you are in a terrible position as well...your lira is colapsing...we see the tv news people begging for bread...In greece we never begged for bread during the crisis of 2012-2018

@@panosanestiou3226 your english is cancer itself lol

Well said...it was the Americans who initiated this movement & supported

This is false Many Americans are against US involvement there.

@@ilikecookies6406 No evidence

He is a populist leader just like Trump, Modi, Imran Khan. Popularity doesn't mean the leader is good, this means that he is clever enough to make ppl fool based on populist narrative. Hitler was also very popular, 😂

😂😂😂

Pfffttt...

Hani really Trump 🤦‍♂️

And USA are not the law makers either

If noone deserves that much power, then every one of you will breed unexceptional, obedient slaves until the end of time.

@@youhavenoprivacyandownnoth8289 Thats not the point. If you give someone control of a whole country, the results wont be good. The person will end up like hitler.

yep.

He was the real dictator lol

@@adviceforidevice4536 Better than dictator Erdoğan.

There are actual people in Turkey that support him is a weak statement pal. More than half of the people support him and more than 80 percent of people marched streets when some terrorist attacked our nation from within our military. You are fed by the media who justified the Iraq war because there were nuclear warheads and chemical weapons where there was not and announced that it was a fake call of threat.

Dictator ship is not in the history of Turkey, not even once. İn fact Turkey is one of the wto countries that is completely secular the other is France. Only countries that does not have a formal and constitutional religion.

they weren't prosecutors and judges. They were terrorists who tried to start a dictatorship in turkey.

@@Nightwing6427 Isn’t Erdogan the real dictator here?

@@kangtheconqueror8784 So if Erdogan is a dictator then extremist Modi is also a dictator. Both of them were elected by the people.

@@Nightwing6427 yes. That's what I'm talking about. Consolidation of power and tricking mass people in the name of religion is all about the start of a dictatorship.

@@kangtheconqueror8784 Erdogan didn't win only for religion but Modi did. Sectarian violence is the only thing modi did for the once peaceful India. Turkey's most economic, military, technological advancement came during his time as leader. He didn't consolidate power like a dictator. There was a referendum where turkish people voted him as their president. This is something a dictator won't do. Turkey is definitely the most democratic country in the middle east.

not even close

not even close and not at all ironic

not even close, dems are just overhyping it by using the wrong word to fit their narratives and agenda

There are other, more recent historical events, which one might draw parallels with.

why he did nothing

2 Fighter pilots had a lock on him, and could have fired, but did not.

+Rusty Shackleford It actually worked out pretty well in Thailand, there was a military coup 2 years ago and the country has been controlled by the military since then.

It didn't, and won't join the EU anymore

It may. Europe really wants it to hold on to the 3 million Syrian refugees it has in its borders. The current refugee crisis in Europe unloved about a million Refugees. Europe can only put so much pressure on turkey before it threatens to release its migrants.

Considering all 28 countries need to agree for these kind of decisions, it's very, very unlikely. And that's without counting the strict requirements that countries wishing to join the EU need to fulfill. Such as respecting human rights. Basically: No chance they should join.

I would rather have Cape Verde join the EU. Cape Verdean beaches are beautiful. Plus it's culturally Portuguese and close enough to Europe

no, it may not Turkey wont join eu full stop

Problem is, he's a US ally, and we all know how long US-allied dictators have stuck around.

+welwitschia the thing is USA refuses to give.fetullah gullen to Turkey. america and fetulah is behind this coup

Korsy Xhan LOL. Yeah, right. And the Reichstag fire was started by the communists. Get real dude. Look at any coup backed by the US, or at previous coups in Turkey, and you'll see that neither is inept at it. This coup attempt's ineptitude is a little bit too suspicious.

***** you have to be unhealthy in the brain to think erdogan did this. They even had a hard time landing the plane. F16 were close to shoot erdogan. But they didnt know he was in the plane ciz they registered it as a passenger flight. His close comrades died he was in tears. Dont believe that stuff. The west dont want Turkey to grow. There is a huge change in Turkey since erdogan came and its good! There is a reason people elect him and go on the streets to protect him. We arent like Egypt or arabic countries they would have got their leader hanged in 2min

***** stop being foolish. Turkey elected him democratic way. And coup is bad no matter what!!!

ottoman empire is never coming back

@@egyptian3682 it will and the west will fall

@@leonidkhamadakov7778 Your ego is as inflated as the Turkish lira.

@@stargamerest612 haha nice joke.

@@stargamerest612 don't worry one day we will rule the world again

democracy? he literally has the power to dissolve paliament what kind of democracy is this?

turkey is a terror state

@@egyptian3682 he was elected by his people, that's democracy

@@fa8911 ok i know that he was elected by his people but he went on to grab the ability to dissolve parliament and attack protesters criticizing his government

Who?

@@kimjongun3890 his old "friend"

Beawaksy Fethullah? No he didn't.

@@kimjongun3890 lol then who did it?

OmegaGamesOfficial wym? Fethullah and Erdoğan hate each other? Erdoğan is his student

Bruh it isnt a palace its like the white house but vox said palace it isnt old

@minimalism ne oldu tatlım

@minimalism tamam prenses ne dersen o

@@u11jiren52 he he

You must have nuclear weapons to defend yourself. Allah and 2B Muslims support you.

Well the United States is mostly Christian but we have large minorities of different religions living here, for example I am Hindu and go to a public school here. Its all about understanding that your country is unique and not entirely the same religion, race or etc.

The United States stays secular mainly through people speaking out against any religious bullshit creeping into the system which forces the government to act, separation of church and state and the first amendment go hand in hand.

The United States stays secular through The Constitution and its amendments which promote diverse religious practices and attempts to equalize all of the citizens of the United States. Of course there is religious influence on the United States as the founding fathers were Christian, a majority of them being Deist, but has evolved into a mostly religiously neutral country focusing on keeping the peace between often conflicting religious viewpoints.

u forget that the founding fathers actually specifically emphasized that the united states should not have an official religion. All the references to god and religion in most of the things that goes on in government nowadays are add-on's. Most notably, the reference to god in the pledge of allegiance was added on later, i believe in the 1950's. so technically, no, we're actually becoming more religious without any proper process at this time preventing the us from becoming a religious nation. As for "the separation of church and state," tell that to a republican and see what they say. *edit- typo

@kupis1408 yeah i used the wrong word my bad, it's *arab not muslim nations. But pakistan IS a shithole terrorist nation.

You are right military is powerful enough to take over but we don't know enough details on what happened actually (or if we ever will). You may want to take a look at this: www.dw.com/en/turkeys-coup-plotters-sold-each-other-out/a-19410387

not everyone does you genius. Why do you guys love trump???

same thing.

Wait... where the proof? US media? are you drunk?

@@muhammadfauzi228 I'm Turkish.I'm the proof.lol

The average French citizen makes 29,000$ you doof. Even poor people in France and the US make more than the Turks do haha.

Even after taking purchasing power into account, Turkey's GDP per capita is less than half France's. Just by way of a pointer, "life expectancis" doesn't really make any sense in English. It looks like life expectancy - which is how long the average person can expect to live, but I don't think that is terribly relevant to the discussion, I think the phrase you wanted is "quality of life". And seriously, while I can't speak for France you can get a great Turkish kebab for $5 in London.

more than France or not that's not the issue here .. what I'm saying is that he made Turkey a better country than it was before him .. so don't try to prove a point by shading the truth and yes this Channel is bias

A revolt really needs to come from the people. When citizens of Turkey get more information on the reality of his rule, the cracks will start to appear. Unfortunately, this attempt has played right into Erdogan's hands. The opposition has done the best thing by opposing the attempt, but it will still be much worse for all political opponents in the country from now on.

you are jelous of erdogan (turkey).. mind your own country..

Haha. Yeah, if gross human rights abuses happen outside of your own back yard, you should turn a blind eye! Damn moralists!

It wasn't realized because the coup was orchestrated by Erdogan himself. How long before he gets all the powers he's been trying to weasel out of the Turkish Parliament since 2012? Not long I'm betting. This was nothing more than Erdogan's Reichstag fire.

George Rickard who abuse who...

-yis- oh yeah i know, im fully on the armies side bro

+censorious link?

www.liveleak.com/view?i=da3_1468636610

мужчина If you want. Its NSFW and really grue some.

I saw it

Only difference is that he's smarter and knows economics. Mahmood was useless.

USA and Iran 👫

Are you Living at Turkey no the country is a reaaly bad position and people is not supporting him evidence at 2019turkey has a Mayor election and hi lose turkeys populatian an ekonomic centers 1 İstanbul (we CHP tane it but he and his undemokratic system made again election we win with 800.000oeople ) 2Ankara he lose turkeys second populated City and capital alsa hi lose 3 5 6. City at turkey econmy is tıoo bad

As a former soldier myself. This was absolutely disturbing and very disgusting. No serving or former soldier should ever turn their might on their own brothers and sisters. I am glad President Erdogan managed to fight back.

@@M.M0709 Hes a good guy looking statistically he has made the money per capita more in Turkey then ever before him and even if he is kinda not good we are still more rich then we were before Erdogan