Coup in Turkey ~ Breeze please stay safe!

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Economic purposes.

[Mr_Bramboy]

TIL Turkey was a NATO member during all four coups.

[Dolan]

This is how the whole mess looks like right now:

██ Jabhat Fateh al-Sham Al-Nusra (Al Qaeda branch)
██ Kurds
██ Islamic State
██ Syrian government
██ Iraqi government

[Mimsy for President]

Looks like a map of GTA San Andreas, when you have to capture the rival gangs' territories.

[Dolan]

I posted this map in the Turkey coup topic because, as I said, the whole event seems to be related to a bigger picture, on a geopolitical level. It's all about what's happening in Syria right now. And, as you can see from the map, northern Iraq and parts of Syria are divided between different factions belonging to Kurds, Al-Nusra (an Al Qaeda branch), ISIS, the Syrian government, the Iraq government and many smaller military factions. The list is very long and there's no point in writing it here, since they are all aligned with one of these major parties in the war.

ISIS seems to have the most difficult relations with everyone in the region here, since they sort of reject them based on religious reasons. They think none of the Muslim states properly apply Sharia, so they don't deserve to call themselves true believers. Yea, they even reject Wahabist Sunnites like the Saudis, because of that.

And it's weird, because everyone in the media has accused Turkey and Saudi Arabia of funding/helping ISIS, which may have been true in the past, but ISIS is pretty much consistent in calling every one of them takfīr (apostates) or tāghūt (rebels, in the bad sense). So, it's gonna be interesting to see why did Turkey mend its relations with Russia. Because officialy Russia is supporting Assad and fighting ISIS, whereas Turkey officially is against Assad and maybe clandestinely supporting ISIS. Then again, the June bomb attack on the Istanbul airport maybe changed their minds.