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For obvious reasons, details are unclear at the moment but the military have announced they've seized control. A bit worrying, to put it mildly.

Someone call for the new Foreign Secretary...

It's okay, Nemo. We've got our best guys on it...

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Perhaps he could read his poem about Erdogan to de-escalate the situation?

Hello from Turkey :)

Meh.

Been there, done that. Twice. (Or is it 3 times?, I forget)

For all your coup d'etat needs, just ask Flashheart for advice.

The Turkish PM should give me a call, I could give him a few pointers.

Don't be such a coup d'etatart.

Just ordered another Efes.

No social media here anymore, life is good!

Honest question from someone who knows very little on politics etc. How or why does this involve us?

Well, there will be a significant number of British citizens in the country on holiday, is the most basic point. You then have that Turkey is a member of NATO and therefore part of our collective protection agreement, you have the fact that the EU deal regarding Syrian refugees is with Turkey and you have the potential issue that the US supposedly have nukes in the country.

So, potentially, quite a lot.

Cool, thanks nemo. Makes sense

Someone shat themselves in my living room earlier. And I was hoping that would be the worst thing to happen to me today.

Now we're all going to die? Ffs.

8)

Luckily we're miles from both Istanbul or Ankara and I don't 'think' I'll see too much stuff here but you never know. Following on BBC website which keeps posting links on Twitter which don't work over here anymore!

Don't you have an apartment over there or something? Or are my synapses getting crossed?

I see Erdogan adressed the nation via facetime 8)

Yeah we do. Just bought a load of water in case the shit hits the fan.

4 bottles of water and some tonic water to go
With our vodka and gin. On the vodka and tonic at the moment until this blows over!

I like this old skool stiff upper lip, when confronted with restless natives. Maybe Froggy could give us some perspective on why a coup d'etat, has morphed into a plain coup.

More like it's Friday night and we're on holiday hundreds of miles from any troubles! It's calmed
Down now, seemingly 104 soldiers trying to cause a coup. They ain't going to last long.

Good news, Twitter is back for tomorrow's match update against UCD

:Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Amusing when a coup is a positive term, as in "quite a coup". A case of spinning from the anti-Erdogan press?

Well, what an anti-climax that was. Bunch of fuckwits.

Agreed. Livened up Friday night a bit! Back in September/October so something similar to fuck the Lira rate against the pound will be lovely!