Turkish ‘Black Hawk’ military helicopter lands in Alexandroupoli [northern Greece]

But he is elected. The elected civilian government is the one we always should support, even if we don't like it.

That doesn't make it democratic. Democracy is so much more than about being elected. It's about a set of principles and values within which one is constrained to operate. The rule of law doesn't mean that you get to change the law to do as you so wished beforehand, but now that it's supossedly legal because you can change the law. Even if elected, you do not get to be the law. That's mob rule, or fascism, but not democracy.

Taking into consideration:

About judge removals: There were 7604 judges in Turkey, 2745 (~36%) of whom are removed from duty.

Taking into further consideration that a lot of events seem not to add up. Moreover, A new report is saying that "Low rank soldiers have been tricked by their officers with the intention that this was a practice mission." Low rank officers keep surrendering themselves to both people and the police.

And lastly, if you take into consideration the words of Erdogan that the old Turkey is no longer there, his actions up to now, and the fact that he said he will clean-up the military.

Take everything into consideration, you have two options :

a) Respect an elected theocrat that is looking to strengthen his power (aka Iran v2)

b) support the military removing from power the dictator in order to preserve and return to the foundations of Ataturk's Turkey.

Western people obviously support a genuine democracy, and not a theocracy looking to further it's power.

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