Saw This One Coming A Mile Away

Don't worry, even with my investing diatribes I haven't forgotten that there is much more fun going on in the world.

Here's one that we should have seen coming, Turkey's military is threatening a coup unless the government makes sure that it respects the Turkish Constitution.

If you go back and read my posts back at the end of February/beginning of March, you'll see that I was taken by surprise when the Turkish government screwed us on the northern front in Iraq.

The Turkish military is the real power in that country. The military wanted us there. They understood the importance of standing beside your allies in a time of need. The military knew who Turkey's real friends were. Which still leaves me surprised that there wasn't a coup back then.

I figured at the time that the military was giving the new government an opportunity to prove that the actions of early March were an aberration. I figured that they wanted to give the fundamentalist government an opportunity to prove that they respected the basic core of the Turkish State - its Constitution.

From this article it sounds like the government didn't get the hint the first time around. They don't understand the military's secularist stance. The stories being leaked by the military sound like a shot across the bow of the Islamofacists.

The Turkish military is not going to shrink from their obligation to uphold and defend their Constitution - they've done it four times in forty years already. The government would be wise to heed the warnings.