People said the same about the Ergenekon trials and what happened?
The overwhelming majority were found innocent and their sentences quashed and jobs restored.
The people who were suspended (not arrested) will get their day in court and the majority of the 100 or so special prosecuting judges appointed are well known Kemalists appointed to the HSYK well before Erdogan became PM. I trust that they will not be taking orders from him or his partisans anytime soon.
Everyone demonstrated against this coup even the people who hated him the most.
Not to mention the tiny fact that 50% of the people voted for the AKP last time around. Thankfully the Turkish are is neither sectarian nor politicised so when they saw the people against them the majority refused to heed to orders to shoot at the protesters and joined them.
The road was not even closed, the Syrian regime and allied militias are still between 1 and 1.5 km away from the road, the Mallah farms are at an elevated position making it easier to target the opposition.
And Daesh and the Kurds already cut the road before and it was opened by force and if you check the maps there are other roads open to the south where the rebels are still in control.
As for the war, it is still far from over, 5 provinces are either partially or fully under rebel, Kurdish or ISIS control, Mr. Cole is quite silent about the advances in Latakia province where Qardaha village, the hometown of the Assads was attacked for the first time in the war and the countryside around Salma was liberated during a Ramadan offensive.
In 2013 the rebellion was all but dead militarily (just as the regime was a year before) and 3 years later people are still saying the rebels are in their dying throws.... Just what Rumsfeld said in 2004.
The number of people living in west Halab is less than 600k, and the whole city never had more than 2 million to begin with (last Syrian census) and refugees from Halab and its province are around 1 million most from the city itself.
No, when a state brings in shia terrorist organisations that murder civilians en masse and post their murdering and raping on social media (check HRW reports and graphic pictures and videos) then the state is a terrorist state if it can be called such because the Syrian state according to my neighbour who visited it last year does not exist anymore.
Jaysh Al-Islam and Ahrar Al-Sham have committed war crimes and allied themselves with AQ but at least they are Syrian and rule over 4 million Syrians who refused to leave or join Assad, the shia militias are Iraqis, Lebanese, Pakistanis and Afghanis, ironically a shia version of Daesh.
The only thing I can say is good riddance. May more good news like this come because nothing can describe the Syrians' happiness in the Twitter sphere.
By the way, the shia sectarian militias have been reported on this very site to operate as early as 2011 yet surprisingly as of late Mr. Cole only mentions them with conjuncture with Daesh who do not operate anywhere near any area where the shia sectarian militias fight.
People said the same about the Ergenekon trials and what happened?
The overwhelming majority were found innocent and their sentences quashed and jobs restored.
The people who were suspended (not arrested) will get their day in court and the majority of the 100 or so special prosecuting judges appointed are well known Kemalists appointed to the HSYK well before Erdogan became PM. I trust that they will not be taking orders from him or his partisans anytime soon.
Why should the people accept an unelected dictatorship that will murder them and confiscate their property?
The protests started well before Erdogan came on air his appearance to rally the people was his constitutional duty.
Everyone demonstrated against this coup even the people who hated him the most.
Not to mention the tiny fact that 50% of the people voted for the AKP last time around. Thankfully the Turkish are is neither sectarian nor politicised so when they saw the people against them the majority refused to heed to orders to shoot at the protesters and joined them.
The road was not even closed, the Syrian regime and allied militias are still between 1 and 1.5 km away from the road, the Mallah farms are at an elevated position making it easier to target the opposition.
And Daesh and the Kurds already cut the road before and it was opened by force and if you check the maps there are other roads open to the south where the rebels are still in control.
As for the war, it is still far from over, 5 provinces are either partially or fully under rebel, Kurdish or ISIS control, Mr. Cole is quite silent about the advances in Latakia province where Qardaha village, the hometown of the Assads was attacked for the first time in the war and the countryside around Salma was liberated during a Ramadan offensive.
In 2013 the rebellion was all but dead militarily (just as the regime was a year before) and 3 years later people are still saying the rebels are in their dying throws.... Just what Rumsfeld said in 2004.
The number of people living in west Halab is less than 600k, and the whole city never had more than 2 million to begin with (last Syrian census) and refugees from Halab and its province are around 1 million most from the city itself.
No, when a state brings in shia terrorist organisations that murder civilians en masse and post their murdering and raping on social media (check HRW reports and graphic pictures and videos) then the state is a terrorist state if it can be called such because the Syrian state according to my neighbour who visited it last year does not exist anymore.
Jaysh Al-Islam and Ahrar Al-Sham have committed war crimes and allied themselves with AQ but at least they are Syrian and rule over 4 million Syrians who refused to leave or join Assad, the shia militias are Iraqis, Lebanese, Pakistanis and Afghanis, ironically a shia version of Daesh.
The only thing I can say is good riddance. May more good news like this come because nothing can describe the Syrians' happiness in the Twitter sphere.
By the way, the shia sectarian militias have been reported on this very site to operate as early as 2011 yet surprisingly as of late Mr. Cole only mentions them with conjuncture with Daesh who do not operate anywhere near any area where the shia sectarian militias fight.