Military Coup in Turkey??

[kayakebab]

Many 1000s of emails have been made public.
On Twitter theyre ridiculing the whole wiki thing as one of the emails is a recipe for Irnak desert ( a semolina based desert)
So its all become a bit of a farce but Im sure more delicate info will surface.

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[Anne]

Interesting survey on yellali
http://www.yellali.com/news/article/300/what-is-happening-in-turkey

[Clioman2]

and now this  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/07/20/turkey-bans-academics-from-leaving-country-in-unprecedented-crac/

[mercury]

BBC New reporting that 50.000 people are now suspended or sacked from their jobs?   It is also saying that Erdogan is holding emergency talks with The Security council this afternnon...

[Lorraine]

I'm in Greece, aegean island Leros, no sightings of Turkish navy as yet!

[mercury]

I will ask the more knowledgeable of you that it was mentioned on BBC that Erdogan MAY order a state of emergency.. How does that afftect Turkey? and would it mean The Foreign office stopping flights to Turkey?

[Colwyn]

The news I've got is that Turkey is adopting "emergency measures" which, I guess, is subtly different from "state of emergency" which is a situation of national danger or disaster in which a government suspends normal constitutional procedures in order to regain control. RTE would, I am sure, say that he is control of the country but, nevertheless would be very happy to suspend constitutional rule for a while, or longer, to lock up the 50,000 people so far targetted. If he did declare a state of emergency then it would surely require the FO to consider their advice very seriously. If a few/many UK citizens were killed after FO advice that it was safe then it would come under considerable criticism

[Anne]

Reading the article in the Telegraph leaves me wondering how he can demand that people overseas return to Turkey.
Am I reading it wrong?

[Colwyn]

Academics working abroad may well hope to return to Turkey one day. Even if they don't, they have family and friends still living there and the police could make life difficult for them. The two Turkish academics I know who work in the UK return to Turkey each year in the summer. Will RTE let them come back to Bristol?

[Colwyn]

I should add that I emailed my two friends earlier today expressing my dismay about what is happening to academics in Turkey and hoping their family and friends are safe. They used to work in a small private university in Istanbul. Despite it being funded by an Islamic foundation (vakf) it is what we would call a "liberal" university. I imagine they are worried for their former colleagues. I don't know whether they will reply, be allowed to reply, but if they do I'll let you what they say (to the extend I can without breaking their confidentiality).