@@johnpearson4218 I agree. I'm not really into politics but the video storytelling was breathtaking. This is probably one of the best content from vice in my book. It felt like I was there, feeling all the emotion, the intensity. (does not mean I want to be there, my condolences to the victims)
Seeing all those workers and students fighting the rebels while theh carry the turkish flag is one of the most emotional things i've seen, i am not a turk but the turkish people are one of the most patriotic people on earth.
It always gives me goosebumps to watch unarmed civilians confronting heavily armed military machine. The bravery, unity and commitment of Turkish people is unmatched.
@@anderslarsen4412 do you live in turkey? No you dont know our life besides european propaganda... most of us are happy and like erdogan (execpt 70% of youth because they never experience turkey under EU and American influence 1923 - 2002 third world country and they watch to many hollywood movies which dosent help)
@@alexbrown8884 and you are clearly not a turk and you cheer for military government in Turkey because you bought all the propaganda the west spread about Turkey
power to the poeple? dude should have been overthrown, it's in the constitution. Erdogan has an almost absolute rule in a democracy, the coup was to set that wrong, right. nationalism is a hell of a drug
@@kingbelowme yeah and Nationalism is what keeps a nation together. Ever heard about it? And no the military wasn’t doing any right. You’d just have another military regime like in places such as Egypt
@@kingbelowme Doesn't matter. This is not the revolution by the people either. This was a coup attempt by a small group of people. I will take nationalist populist leader that ascend through democracy over self appointed leader by force anytime. Even if it opposes my political values.
@@thastayapongsak4422 a democratically elected dictator? Hmm. That’s interesting. You also know the coup would have got him out of power and they would have held fresh elections. It amazes me how much people love Fascism. Nationalism is tribalism. Where you reject reality and blindly follow the state
One of the crazy things about this video is watching the destructive power of military hardware. It almost leaves you breathless and shows what they can do in an urban battlefield. This also made Erdogan much more powerful and he was able to consolidate power, now he's the only dictator in NATO.
exactly mate - well said. It's rare I'm happy for a military coup to succeed. You have to be pretty bad to make me think that's ok... but Erdogan has stolen what Turkey was, and morphed it into his image. atatürk would be rolling in his grave.....
@@Soboba.Fett69 those were Kurdish protestors protesting over how they were not allowed to mourn PKK members recently killed too. They’re not even saying Allahu Akhbar, they’re chanting a message of support for their martyrs and how they won’t be divided.
I get what you mean, but this is in no way comparable to the Tiananmen situation. That was a government crackdown on a protest, while this is a civilian attempt to stop tanks from aiding a coup of the government, essentially a pro-government action.
thats' because turks thinks "we live for motherland we stands for motherland we here for country" but other countries think "country for me i am the country"
which is why the government keeps fucking them in the ass and they dont care. meanwhile "other countries" fight for their rights and arent afraid to stand up for them@@raulevans1726
Being a soldier I feel for both sides because as a soldier if you are given a command by your superiors and dont carry it out the consequences could be loosing your life and if you carry out those order like in a coup you face execution...damn rock and a hard place
In the USA, you swear an oath to defend the constitution and take orders from the president and officers appointed over you according to military law. If the order is illegal, immoral, or unethical as a soldier you should have the integrity and courage to hold your duty to the oath you took and disobey that wrongful order. You are a human, not a robot, you Don't Have to follow an illegal order. Don't use the Nazi excuse
@@scottbeaulieu13 you are talking like a civilian...you swear an oath to the constitution not the president and military law and codes are part of that oath my guy....orders are orders go watch the story vice did recently did about Nigerians protesting about police and where vice compares it to the jan 6th insurrection then you'll know how close the house of cards came to falling down, especially the answer given by the former secretary of defense if trump gave the order to overthrow the government what he would do,he simply said I dont know
@@SlackerU is that what you think that soldiers come from peasant families??? I pity what you think of the men and women who protect your country,its the most unappreciated job on earth thankless and you get no fame for it,and suffer mentally you have split second decisions and kill people and maybe save a few lives....sometimes I wished I just took my degree and had an office job but I left all that to do what most people woudnt,have some respect
Man you really have to admire the Turkish citizens, inspirational. Idk what the Coup was about or for what reason. But the citizens didnt get mad they just showed love, expressed how they where feeling and passively resisted, they even tried to have conversations with the soldiers about what they are doing, asking them why they are shooting at they're own citizens and trying to come to a peaceful resolution. It's amazing what people can do when they unite. I hope you all find peace happiness and prosperity. As an Australian I have always had respect for Turkey anyway after our troubled past in Gallipoli, A strong, brave and honorable country. ✌️
The Turkish Republic has (or had) a policy laid out by the founder of the country Ataturk that would grant the military the power to replace governments that tested the country’s democracy and constitution. The military saw Erdogan as an authoritarian threat to the Turkish Republic. However, the civilian reaction was probably due to the fear that of past military coups which had previously themselves resulted in brutal military dictatorships
This coup was carried out by Fetullah Gülen, who was backed by the US. We, as Turkish people and young people, took to the streets that day and came out against the coup and won. Long live the Republic of Turkey
"Democracy cannot be stopped" That's now a moot point when Erdogan is consistently and persistently removing many democratic norms and becoming more like a dictator with every passing day. One thing is for certain, with Erdogan in charge, the chances of Turkey becoming an EU country are non-existent. And the more it isolates itself, the less prosperous it will be.
If it comes down to a vote Turkey will never be a EU nation, the East will not allow it. Also it is not in Europe. Agreed on Ergodan though he is a pig just as much as these scumbags shooting at civillians, Its somthing he has done aswell
The EU has made it clear over and over again that it doesn't want to have Turkey in it, mostly because of anti-Muslim bigotry. You can't expect the Turks, who live in a a country as big as Germany and bigger than the UK and France, with a military bigger than any of theirs, to constantly beg to be let into this little club. Turks have done much better going their own way.
the idea of Turkey joining the EU has been scrapped by both sides for a while now, Turks waited long enough Europe didn't comply, so the government looked in the opposite direction. This is Europes fault as well.
Yeah the leader that has allowed their armed force to take “comfort women” by force from Syria and sell them to Turkish fighting factions in Libya. The leader has came out in support of the old empire too in front of cheering crowds it’s horrific.
because it really was, he increased his power on the politics with the presidential system and with the support he gained in this coup, he’s unbeatable in the elections today
You know it’s heavy when civilians call for execution of the traitors. I was a soldier at that time stationed in Ardahan in the far east of Turkey. Soldiers who went to ankara were given orders to execute the president like how khadaffi and mubarek were executed. They used thanks to shoot the parlemental building in Ankara because they thought Erdogan was inside. Thank god he wasn’t.
It was fake and designed to serve as a purge of high profile individuals who weren’t loyal to Erdogan. It resulted in a consolidation of power by Erdogan loyalists. Erdogan is a puppet to foreign powers and the Turkish population is forced into mandatory conscription to be used as footsoldiers for neocolonial foreign powers.
WOW!! Power to the People!! Standing up in unison is powerful. This is scary, humbling but most of all, I feel MASSIVE RESPECT for the people of Turkey, who stood up with their own lives in the face of tanks and gun's.
It could happen anywhere. The biggest component is the role the media plays. The biggest progress from events like this is people are seen, then the coverage leads to people being heard.
Turkish Military: "How did the coup possibly fail?!" Idk, maybe next time don't run over cars with tanks and make the civilian population who you need support from, hate you.
Depends, historically without much popular support they can just shoot a lot more and still take control. They should have taken better control of the media to demonize the enemy, tell everyone something absolutely evil about the enemy true or false doesn't matter, shoot any group of resistance as it was forming. No real revolution is made without spilling blood.
@@MrRedsjack You can only do this if you aren't the enemy and the cause of the countries problems. Its why republicans failed. You can only bullshit people with popular support before hand.
@@anilaltun2190 the size of the army doesn’t really matter rather what points they take over and how fast they take over them all and how well they defend them until the opposition starts to run out of resources
As a Turkish i got shoted 2 time from my back i love my homeland i can die for my homeland with no blink my eyeses. if u dont have a homeland ur nothing u need to keep homeland alive if price is my life i am ready to pay this with my life.
@@munzevip-q5cnoldu bunu yazınca Türkçü felan mı hissettin kendini. Kimse benim dinime sallayamaz. Haddini bileceksin. Sana ağız dolusu küfür etmek isterdim ama öyle bir insan değilim. Ben Müslüman bir Türküm ve bununla gurur duyuyorum. Sana da acıyorum. Çünkü kimliğini kaybetmişsin.
@@zezistan. asıl kimliğini laybedip arap masalına inanan sensin atalarının dini tengrizm ve siz müslümanlık diye diye arap kölesi olan asimile olan varlıklardan birkacisiniz senden daha türküm ağzını topla filistine yardim etmek için mitingler atarken müslüman ama doğu türkistana zorla zulüm uygulanınca turk veya müslüman değil oylemi? Senin kanın bozuk.
@@BillyT886 The attempt may be over, but Gulenists and their antis still exist, so their struggle. It will take a long time for us to close this chapter.
@@BillyT886 so what if its 6 years ago? I still mourn my father to this day . What did seem bizarre here? Someone expressing themselves? You responded in the same time with the one you are questioning.
I don’t think you understand the background here. It was patriot to attempt a coup attempt against a conservative, religious autocrat. The military was trying to restore democracy and secularism.
@@ttrestle no, by patriotism I mean that the people were ready to give their life for what they believe was good for their country. This kind of sacrificial mindset is needed to be respected. Idc what the military wanted. I care about what the citizen wants as the main power of it's country lies in it's citizens.
@@ttrestle And that’s why the people supported it they knew what Americans were doing but your government hides it from you so you are clueless same with russia he is pushing them back too that is why he isn’t backed by anyone but turkey’s people
Gosh the Turks are a proud and patriotic people! They REFUSED to let armed bullies take over their country. Absolutely amazing the bravery of those people that faced those traitor soldiers
Anyone who's been through the countless other coups (and attempts) in Turkish history can tell you with immense confidence that this was not a coup attempt. It was a dozen or two high ranking military officials that where bribed millions of Turkish Lira to order their subordinates to go to a few key locations in Turkey. Such as: Taksim Square, The National Archives, Istanbul International Airport etc. All the soldiers you see in these videos are conscripts who where woken up at around 23:00 and ordered to take equipment as they where going on a training mission. They had no idea they where about to be part of a "coup". High ranking commanders gave the orders to sergeants/warrant officers and then got in their private vehicles and fled the country with millions in their bank accounts. As I was watching this unfold I knew something was off. Coups in Turkey have always historically happened at 03-04:00 and you would wake up in the morning with the national news agency reading a decree by the Commander of the Armed Forces following a date where an election will be held (usually in around 1 years time). This has always been the way Turkey has conducted its coups. Now, as a foreigner you might think, "Why on earth would anyone stage a coup?". Turkey has always been an extremely militaristic nation. All men get conscripted and there's a very big emphasis in youth education in history on Ottoman soldiers and the empire as a whole. But different from most countries the Turkish people have/had a saying; "Polis devletin, asker milletindir." Which translates too: "The police are the governments', the army is the peoples." During the 2013 Gezi Park protests which showed immense amount of police brutality hundreds and thousands of people fled the advancing water cannons and riot police officers straight into military barracks around Istanbul. The soldiers would simply tell the police that their duty is to protect the citizens of this country. They would inform the police that that is their ONLY duty and they are not responsible if some of these people are "criminals", as the army they felt responsibility to protect every single citizen from any sort of harm. This is all happening while Erdogan and his fascist cabinet are spreading their tentacles into every corner of the country. The one place that they had failed to put their people in charge of was the army. The army was always the one thing standing between Erdogan and complete power over the country, essentially a 21st century dictatorship. So this brilliant idea was hatched; around 600 troops took part in the entire coup, many of them conscripts aged 17-19, the coup brought the people together and it seemed like Erdogan was the saviour. What did he do once the coup was supressed? Fired %10 of all civil servants (judges, lawyers, teachers, notary's etc.), closed THOUSANDS of educational institutions, imprisoned TENS OF THOUSANDS of people who where said to be traitors. And the best part of it all, he got rid of the minister of defence, appointed his own man as the new Commander of the Armed Forces and then officially attached the Turkish Armed Forces to the Presidency, making himself the Commander-in-Chief. And this is pretty much a general overview of the entire thing. I'll gladly explain more if anyone wants to know about it. I was there when it happened, I knew people who where stationed in other military bases around the country while it happened. Ever since the military got out of Erdogan's way he got more, and more and more power and look what he's done now... Ran the country into the ground. We're a disgrace of a nation, we've had the worst economical year in our history, we've got more journalists imprisoned then any other western nation, human rights are a joke. I used to be proud to be Turkish, but now I look at what we've become and I cannot even fathom it.
You wrote a lot of stuff that I agree with, but the possibility of a staged coup occuring without anyone knowing is pretty far fetched when you think about it. I mean, the Gulenist organization acting as a deep state parallel organization was a widely known fact, as they provided the intellectual and financial muscle to AKP for most of its existence. Now there's a change that Erdogan knew maybe, but I highly doubt that this was a planned coup. If anything it was US orchestrated lol
You’re doing great despite everything clearly you’re great at writing and explaining so thank you but Turkey is on a bright path just wait for the investments to come in now!
@@josephkwon3904 the coup is staged, Army has always been siding with the people before this coup and opposing Erdogan full control over Turkey. The coup is used by Erdogan as justification to takes full control of the army and dismantling his main opposition group.
@@josephkwon3904 Read about auto coups and self coups to learn more. Look at the current situation in Tunisian rn. Coup feels like the word of 2021 imo but there are many different types and even all the ones this year were different types. A leader trying to make a national emergency in an effort to consolidate power is an old strategy but it unfolds in different ways depending on the country. In the US in January we had a president use "brown shirts" or citizen soldiers for his coup. But he was also still in control of the military and comprised our Pentagon and kept them from allowing clearance for our National Guard to deploy onto the Capitol during the attempted coup. The fighting/storming was just one of the parts because there were legal coups drafted up as well. No country is impossible to overthrow or overtake in an authoritarian way. All you need is enough ppl in power to say "yes".
I think people need to understand the political situation in Turkey. Ataturk who was the founder of the republic envisioned a secular and democratic nation and entrusted the safekeeping of democracy and secularism to the military. Previous coups in turkey actually restored democratic institutions. While I'm no expert on the socio political context of this latest one, we should realize that Erdogan does intact push the nation to conservatism and does act in autocratic ways...
@@ibadurrehman1210 I agree, im not saying im opposed to Erdogan on a geopolitical level. I get that maybe people want a more conservative society, im just saying that Ataturk established a framework for what he considered the modern Turkey to look like and then entrusted the military with the power to enforce it. So regardless of what I believe, I would say that the coup was not necessarily an irrational act, its entirely rational granted the historical context. Yet considering the inflation of the lira, the state of the Turkish economy, and Erdogans actions against press freedom and western allies, I think it could be better.
@@ibadurrehman1210 thats bs, he mid have been popular, but removing the opposition, mean that people cant redecide. he has ruined the country, with corupption and his incompetence, the lira is worthless, turky has lost all its firends and money. western demociracy has failed bc of people like him. democracy is the only way, a dictzator doesnt care for the people. Look wich countrys have the best living standarts and which have the worst, democracys are on top, while dictatorships are at the bottom, this isnt a matter of culture, some thinks are universally bad, and dictatorships is one of those things
Hiç uğruna ölmediler. Adalet için öldüler. Zalimlerden korkmadılar. Erdoganı halk seçti ve sadece halk gönderebilir. Amerikanın köleleri degil. Amerika pkk, ypg, ypj gibi terör örgütlerini silahlandırıp üstümüze salıyor. Ama bu millet eğilmez. Başaramıyacaksınız. Ne mutlu Türk'üm diyene. Ne mutlu ki bana adelet için hak için savaşan bir halkın parçasıyım inşallah bu yolda ölürüm. Zalimler için yaşasın cehennem.
I think it's good to also tell the military reasoning. They are tasked to protect the democracy and the secular state as envisioned by Atatürk. They did that many times before and reinstated a democratic government immediately afterwards. Erdogan is on a path to become a dictator. And all the values the Turks differed with from most of the Arab world are slowly getting lost. That's why they tried to overthrow Erdogan.
Yeah that’s democracy the army can’t just remove the government if he doesn’t like it. the arab world is different in many ways just look at Egypt and how the army is running things there after a coup d'état
Backstory of the coup: The Fetullah Gülen organisation is a religious extremist sect from Turkey. The sect exists since 1964. Over the years, they grew stronger and stronger. İn 1999, Gülen was to be arrested because of charges of infiltrating the state and trying to overthrow the Republic and replace it by sharia law, like in İran. He fled from Turkey and never returned back. İn 2003-2013 Erdoğan and Gülen were actually cooperating with each. İn two separate courtcases thousands of Generals, Admirals, high ranking Police and many more were put into jail with fake charges. Then, in late 2013 Gülen tried to overthrow Erdoğan by causing civil unrest. İt didnt work out. Now, Gülen and Erdoğan were split. Erdoğan brought out the innocent people from prison, although back then he had helped Gülen to put them into prison. Anyway, now Gülens people were being cleaned out from the state. They had actually captured around a third of all the state we could say. They recruited their own men into positions in ministries, Police, Military and so on. Now since they were being cleaned out, the only way they saw was to do a coup. That coup was done on the 15.07.2016. It failed due to a few big reasons: 1. They didnt manage to cut off internet in Turkey. 2. The commander who should have taken over the highest command position, was killed. 3. Only a small part of the Military was actually doing a coup. The coup ultimately failed. Gülen is a terrorist. He and his organisation tried to end the Republic twice. Their ultimate target is to make Turkey an İslamic Republic, so a dictatoship like İran is nowadays. Erdoğan today is an autocrat, but at least when hes gone we can return to normal. With Gülen, there wouldnt be a way back to democrcy for dozens of years
I hope that after Erdogan you get a capable leader who, together with the government can get the country on its feet again. Turkey has a big potential to be a both economical and a geopolitical superpower in the region but with Erdogan style of politics, which includes making as much as possible enemies, ruining relations with other nations, spending money recklessly in war operations outside of Turkey and basically destroying economy, the potential has been postponed for several years.
Bro finally. Do you know how many Turks can't properly explain or know this this stuff. I've been giving super long explanations on the events for years now. But this was a very well summary of the events as they happened. The only thing you should maybe add is the leaked tapes from gulen where he tells his followers to take over every possible institution with the ultimate goal tot Ake over the state. Ironically even tells them to not stroke before the eggs are cooked lol (before it's the right time). But Erdogan kicking his followers out of powerful positions forced their hand... As someone that dislikes Erdogan. Purging the Gulenists is probably the best thing to happen ti Turkey in the past 20 / 30 years. And I'm terrified the opposition might be too lax on the issue if they ever gain power. Esp with Chaps current situation and that Kk refusing to leave backed by all his hometown people that he filled every position with. Nepotism in Turkey is rampant on all sides unfortunately
This is the vice news I found informative, I wanted to say loved, for the raw exposure of what is going on, but the loss of life, the slaughter of those people made me change my response. It would be disrespectful to those who died. Thank you vice for sharing this story.
Wait till they cover that Turkey has comfort women stolen from northern Syria and then being sold to Turkish militias in Libya. Their armed forces are technically commuting a genocide there against the Kurds and Assyrian people there too. It’s especially fucked when you realise they are a NATO member.
@@raquetdude And yet not a single one of your fabricated allegations are being reported by Reuters, humans rights watch or amnesty international? 🤔 Get out of your little hate filled bubble and try reading real news.
Man, I visited Russia during this time and did a layover in Istanbul. The day after I landed in Istanbul, but was already in Russia, the Airport had a terrorist attack. Then after two weeks in Russia, my return trip was through that same airport. One day after I was already home, Martial Law was declared....crazy two weeks in Istanbul.
Hahahah.....two bankrupt countries in the FATF grey list. Anyway how's polio vaccination going considering Afghanistan and Pakistan are the only countries suffering from polio
Whats weird about the Turkish uprising, is it was a Modern DEVELOPED city. Its weird seeing coup-led F-16's buzzing highly delevoped cities with sky scrapers, firing on targets that are so minor. (minor as in, the military isn;'t having all out war in the streets against coup-led troops. its just little small pockets here and there)
This footage is insane. It's nice to see how brave the people were, even though the current leader isn't doing so well. This isn't the way to go about it though. Violence to gain power just leads to more division and violence.
@@2011blueman Not so much as "non violent", but more so calculated violence and political moves. If you really want to overtake your government with your military, and actually give freedom to the people and not oppress them, then you must have an overwhelming percentage of the military and government on board before doing so. If not, then the "new" government will just be shattered and have too many problems all at once to reasonably maintain. Sure, Turkey isn't perfect, but they have a system in place that relies on many things working together with people that have experience running things. If the new government can't get anyone to listen to it, what will most likely happen? Chaos. Most positions will be filled by inexperienced people that rely on violence to get their way. Then a fight for power over the "new government" will take place because usually there will be people power hungry enough to want to become the next dictator. Look at any country in the last 100 years that have overthrown their government with the military and tell me how they're doing.
@@brett4264 fair point. I was more inferring that there isn’t some talking head trying to explain away the situation. Just from what I gathered and based on the info given at the end of the video, the President of Turkey is/has been consolidating his power into more of a dictatorship. Which seems more than not to be the preferred form of government in these Islamist countries. That’s why I’ve always been against U.S. intervention in the Middle East trying to spread Democracy as usually either the populace of said countries don’t want it or don’t get it or both. They seem to love authoritarianism.
Litteraly the fskes coup ever. Did anyone ever find out what their objectives were. What orders were given to soldiers. Litteraly seemed like the orders were go to this road and wait with no purpose.
Not all coup went on as planned, some others are not well planned. This was one of them. And erdogan capitalized it to do his own agenda, and he has a far better plan
@@Drkon6 How can real people not be killed in a staged coup? I'm saying the organization of the coup was staged. I'm sure soldiers were given orders to hold positions and people got shot or crushed. Entirely irrelevant to the staging.
yeah this makes Erdogan seem like a hero. It doesn't talk about how he used this as an opportunity to jail all opposition, restructure the government to where he has the final say as well as destroy the economy and make the lives of all citizens hell
@Syphax Atlas there is a difference between traitors of the state and opposition. Just because someone doesn't agree with you doesn't make them a traitor. If you can't understand this I don't know what to tell you.
You guys should do a part two explaining who's the movement behind the coup, they are called Hizmet or FETO and still operating outside of turkey throug their schools and cultural center
@@OFAFIRIKA Its a country with economy in the gutter and Islamist fanatics. People are idiots , they will support anyone who feeds them insecurity , religious nonsense or nationalism. Intelligent people are leaving Turkey. All my Turkish friends are completely negative about future of Turkey.
@UC9lDv5pQOwQYfwGG4pCDXjA Dumb ass turkey is doing now better then ever. exept in times of othmans. I dont know where your trash information is coming from lol
Turkish people did beat the army without weopons, bu besides people policeman have been fighting the army. Also special forces the elite fighter soldiers where also in control of Erdogan, they did fight heavily against the army…. In the first hours Turkish secret service did call an army officer in an building… in control of Fetullah Gulen soldiers… they did ask him to kill the leader of the army coup… it was an general…. They said if you kill him you know you will not survive…he said he did accept this order willingly and he did kill the coup leader in the first hours… this was the coup was in panic 😱… uprising people fighting police and special forces did beat the army … But still it is bad because it did take about 12 hours to win this war… normally 2 hours was enough of people did have their own weopons they could beat the army in 2 hours without help from police of special forces.
I was on the streets that day, not because erdogan said so, not because of him, not because of Islam cuz I'm atheist. I fought on that day for my country, for my nation. Coup is not a solution and never will be neither for us nor for other countries.
When Americans see a narrative they don't like, they call it propaganda or start questioning the origin of the video. Its a pattern across all political parties in America, whether left-wing or right-wing.
Turkish army already knew how to do coup before 15 July 2016, before it there was 9 coups happened in Turkey in just 50 years all of them were successful for military. I am not saying coup is a true way to bring a justice into a country. But with over 800.000 soldiers in the army and experienced army staff which know how to fight and do coup because of the insurgent fighting against insurgencies inside of the turkey since 1980s and coup history with 100% success rate. In 15 July coup there was roughly over 1000 solders with less than 10 jets and small amount of armoured vehicles and tanks. People who are curios check the 1980s and rest of the coups happened in Turkey and size of it. You might be curios why am I writing these facts here, after the Erdogan purged the Turkish army over 80% of its officers has fired or made retired with force. This same events happened for teachers, police force, government workers, lawyers, jurists every aspect of working force for government purged. After the coup OHAL started which is State of Emergency all powers are directly went under Erdogan. Since then Turkish Parliament(TBMM) lost its functions. Before the coup Erdogan was failing at the election pools for incoming General Election after the coup with powers he had he delayed election a year and increase his popularity back. Economy collapsed in Turkey. Every open minded citizen of Turkey knows there was only one winner after the coup, and he is the Erdogan. Timing of Vice News releasing of this video just made me curios. Why is it too late, why didn't you memorize brave citizen of turkey which had lost their life in better time? Why did you choose a time when currently Erdogan is way behind of his opponents in pools for next election?
Thanks for all the details except 1. This coup was supposed to happen at 3:00 AM while everyone is was deep asleep. The country was supposed to wake up to a coup and a curfew, no transportation, no services, helpless with every institution and strategic location already under control of military junta before dawn like the ones you mentioned which had happened before. What made this one different and a failure? Erdogan’s intelligence got a whiff of it on the day from the unusual phone traffic and movements in the military circles as they were getting ready logistically for the 3:00 AM execution of the plan. When the military found out Erdogan’s security detail got a whiff , it was decided to deprive Erdogan time to counter so it was executed in haste 6 hours ahead of schedule from the initial 3:00 AM plan, depriving the junta logistical advantage of putting tanks and soldiers in place beforehand to control crowds and enforce a curfew.
The previous video about this from your channel was terrible. But this is the best video I've ever seen. As a Turkish I learnt a lot from this video. Really thank you guys
9:50 look at the soldiers/guards holding the firearms but realizing in awe that true power in that moment was in the hands of the person speaking. Very interesting moment captured
In Turkey the military is entitled with the duty to keep the country a secular democracy and whenever the country tries to become a divisive Islamic state, the Turkish military comes in to declare a coup. This is not the first time the Turkish military has done a military coup in order to restore the secular Constitution with which the country was founded. Only this time because of social media and Eardogan’s right wing Nationalist supporters the coup failed. Today turkey is in the FATF grey list, along side countries like Yemen and Pakistan, their economy is doing very bad and the country is being questioned for it’s human rights record. I don’t think the fall of one-night revolution was good thing.
Yeah but when you kill your own citizens and with ppl able to access information on their phone, it is just not possible. Public is divided 50/50 on Erdogan, If it was 60% or more they might have succeeded. And need remember Erdogan was the same person who was liberal in early 2000s and basically doubled the Turkish economy, and a dictator now. I don't think he is going anywhere now.
Thinking this is one of the coups made by secular turkish army is totally wrong. This coup was made by radical islamist FETO and their militants inside turkish army. They thought that this is our last chance (becouse thir relationship with erdogan gone bad) for restoring our power and went straight in with some mid-ranked soldiers thinking the rest of the army and people would support the coup. But even tho turkish people are being ruled by Erdogan they stood with democracy. Not even the army as a whole supported the coup
Geliboluda savaşan anzak askerlerine türkiyeden selam olsun son centilmenler savaşı avusturalyalı kardeşim gerçek dostlardır türkiyede büyük saygı görürler. Çünkü onlar bizimle mertçe savaştı ingilizler gibi haince savaşmadılar.
Ok , this is the greatest, worst, weirdest and absolutely historical trip I’ve ever seen. Glad to see you guys made it out safe .
All the videos are from different people, there isn't a journalist. Vice gathers and edits them together in this format. Great content
@@johnpearson4218 I agree. I'm not really into politics but the video storytelling was breathtaking. This is probably one of the best content from vice in my book. It felt like I was there, feeling all the emotion, the intensity. (does not mean I want to be there, my condolences to the victims)
so you forgot how they treat kurdish and armenian?
@@iamhardwell2844 tf this have to do with a brutal coup?
@Kamil S should ask those Turkish people about Turkish lira😁😁
I was there trapped in the airport being Latino not speaking a word of Turkish or what the hell was unfolding......top 3 intense moments in my life.
Your most intense moment it must be involving cartel i bet . No offense bro
@@wolfydz1239 lol that's racist, cartels are located in certain areas
@@wolfydz1239 racist
@@wolfydz1239 buddy just stop😂
@@wolfydz1239 nah. More likely being pulled over by American police
Man i randomly clicked on this today and thought it was gonna be boring but instead went through a wave of patriotism and brave souls, god bless turks
Seeing all those workers and students fighting the rebels while theh carry the turkish flag is one of the most emotional things i've seen, i am not a turk but the turkish people are one of the most patriotic people on earth.
In India. it's the same or bigger.
🙏🙏🙏 Thank you for the nice comment. makes me proud. peace in Turkey. peace in the World.
@@radicalpotato666 India 😂😂😂 Not even Close
@@okhanuludag Have you been here? Here, nationalism is taught everywhere, even the current premier is a nationalist.
Ignorance is a bliss.
Yes, yes we are and thanks for the compliments
It always gives me goosebumps to watch unarmed civilians confronting heavily armed military machine. The bravery, unity and commitment of Turkish people is unmatched.
They were defending a fascist dictator, who's eroding their democratic and civil rights.
@@anderslarsen4412 do you live in turkey? No you dont know our life besides european propaganda... most of us are happy and like erdogan (execpt 70% of youth because they never experience turkey under EU and American influence 1923 - 2002 third world country and they watch to many hollywood movies which dosent help)
@@jamesb9375 I bet you’re from Iraq lmao
@@alexbrown8884 and you are clearly not a turk and you cheer for military government in Turkey because you bought all the propaganda the west spread about Turkey
@@hydrolifetech7911 im not a turk?😂 im a yörük the most turkic you can get in turkey
The civilians played a major part in the failed coup attempt, power to the people.
power to the poeple? dude should have been overthrown, it's in the constitution. Erdogan has an almost absolute rule in a democracy, the coup was to set that wrong, right. nationalism is a hell of a drug
Not Power to the People!! They used the civilians like HUMAN SHIELDS!!!!
@@kingbelowme yeah and Nationalism is what keeps a nation together. Ever heard about it? And no the military wasn’t doing any right. You’d just have another military regime like in places such as Egypt
@@kingbelowme Doesn't matter. This is not the revolution by the people either. This was a coup attempt by a small group of people. I will take nationalist populist leader that ascend through democracy over self appointed leader by force anytime. Even if it opposes my political values.
@@thastayapongsak4422 a democratically elected dictator? Hmm. That’s interesting. You also know the coup would have got him out of power and they would have held fresh elections. It amazes me how much people love Fascism. Nationalism is tribalism. Where you reject reality and blindly follow the state
Jeez you can feel the energy through the screen.
This is one of the greatest moments of history I have lived. The Turkish people have shown the world their bravery and love of country.
Human unity can both be devastating, but it can also be a hundredfold greater.
My heart goes with you Turkey.
It’s still crazy to think this event is never really remembered ever after all this years
as a turk, yeaa..
One of the crazy things about this video is watching the destructive power of military hardware. It almost leaves you breathless and shows what they can do in an urban battlefield.
This also made Erdogan much more powerful and he was able to consolidate power, now he's the only dictator in NATO.
Hungary calling.
@hakuna matata false
He is not a dictator, their party lost the municipal elections
exactly mate - well said. It's rare I'm happy for a military coup to succeed. You have to be pretty bad to make me think that's ok... but Erdogan has stolen what Turkey was, and morphed it into his image. atatürk would be rolling in his grave.....
dont worry he is leaving in 2 years.
No matter what, you have to admire the courage of those people coming out to the streets with nothing but their own national flag to abort a coup.
Why did it take them 5 years to finally release this, I am just curious?
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they do multiple reports of the same event and scape the ones that arnt as good,
E R D O G A N
@@Soboba.Fett69 those were Kurdish protestors protesting over how they were not allowed to mourn PKK members recently killed too. They’re not even saying Allahu Akhbar, they’re chanting a message of support for their martyrs and how they won’t be divided.
and What's wrong WiTH sAYINg Allahu Akbàr
5:58 it's surreal to see the tiananmen tank moment being reenacted in Turkey. It takes guts of steel to face fast moving military vehicles head on 😱
Why do some parts look staged?
I get what you mean, but this is in no way comparable to the Tiananmen situation. That was a government crackdown on a protest, while this is a civilian attempt to stop tanks from aiding a coup of the government, essentially a pro-government action.
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Is do or die if the army took over your life is finish
@@LowMedow because it's a coup, alot of people were in the loop of what was about to happen and playing along, others not so much.
I had no idea that the turkish nationalism and unity was so strong, I have no idea what my country would do in a similar event.
After turkish independency fight there were 40.000 men left in the whole country. The rest died for our flag
@@stefanvermeer3209 sıçma knk
Where you from bro
thats' because turks thinks "we live for motherland we stands for motherland we here for country"
but other countries think "country for me i am the country"
which is why the government keeps fucking them in the ass and they dont care. meanwhile "other countries" fight for their rights and arent afraid to stand up for them@@raulevans1726
Being a soldier I feel for both sides because as a soldier if you are given a command by your superiors and dont carry it out the consequences could be loosing your life and if you carry out those order like in a coup you face execution...damn rock and a hard place
@@SlackerU worse, if the soldier fails on either side, the soldier's family is on the chopping block for their mistake
In the USA, you swear an oath to defend the constitution and take orders from the president and officers appointed over you according to military law. If the order is illegal, immoral, or unethical as a soldier you should have the integrity and courage to hold your duty to the oath you took and disobey that wrongful order. You are a human, not a robot, you Don't Have to follow an illegal order. Don't use the Nazi excuse
@@scottbeaulieu13 you are talking like a civilian...you swear an oath to the constitution not the president and military law and codes are part of that oath my guy....orders are orders go watch the story vice did recently did about Nigerians protesting about police and where vice compares it to the jan 6th insurrection then you'll know how close the house of cards came to falling down, especially the answer given by the former secretary of defense if trump gave the order to overthrow the government what he would do,he simply said I dont know
@@SlackerU is that what you think that soldiers come from peasant families??? I pity what you think of the men and women who protect your country,its the most unappreciated job on earth thankless and you get no fame for it,and suffer mentally you have split second decisions and kill people and maybe save a few lives....sometimes I wished I just took my degree and had an office job but I left all that to do what most people woudnt,have some respect
@@fightingpit You're aware that most of our soldiers don't see combat.
Man you really have to admire the Turkish citizens, inspirational. Idk what the Coup was about or for what reason. But the citizens didnt get mad they just showed love, expressed how they where feeling and passively resisted, they even tried to have conversations with the soldiers about what they are doing, asking them why they are shooting at they're own citizens and trying to come to a peaceful resolution. It's amazing what people can do when they unite. I hope you all find peace happiness and prosperity. As an Australian I have always had respect for Turkey anyway after our troubled past in Gallipoli, A strong, brave and honorable country. ✌️
Reminded me a big of the Euromaidan and the start of the revolution of dignity.
The Turkish Republic has (or had) a policy laid out by the founder of the country Ataturk that would grant the military the power to replace governments that tested the country’s democracy and constitution. The military saw Erdogan as an authoritarian threat to the Turkish Republic. However, the civilian reaction was probably due to the fear that of past military coups which had previously themselves resulted in brutal military dictatorships
@@jamesmartin6750 yh, not good to have the military rule
@@jamesmartin6750 of course ataturk wanted the military to intervene, because if the people were to decide it would be a Muslim country.
Ataturk welcomed the ANZAC martyrs as sons of turkey because they were buried there
This coup was carried out by Fetullah Gülen, who was backed by the US. We, as Turkish people and young people, took to the streets that day and came out against the coup and won.
Long live the Republic of Turkey
Turkey 🇹🇷 is a very proud country. I was there in September and boy they are awesome
Türk insanını beğendiniz mi
@@admin-ql9qt yes
"Democracy cannot be stopped" That's now a moot point when Erdogan is consistently and persistently removing many democratic norms and becoming more like a dictator with every passing day. One thing is for certain, with Erdogan in charge, the chances of Turkey becoming an EU country are non-existent. And the more it isolates itself, the less prosperous it will be.
If it comes down to a vote Turkey will never be a EU nation, the East will not allow it. Also it is not in Europe. Agreed on Ergodan though he is a pig just as much as these scumbags shooting at civillians, Its somthing he has done aswell
I did think that comment was funny considering she doesn't live in a democracy.
Lol you people will support a coup when it suits your cause
The EU has made it clear over and over again that it doesn't want to have Turkey in it, mostly because of anti-Muslim bigotry. You can't expect the Turks, who live in a a country as big as Germany and bigger than the UK and France, with a military bigger than any of theirs, to constantly beg to be let into this little club. Turks have done much better going their own way.
the idea of Turkey joining the EU has been scrapped by both sides for a while now, Turks waited long enough Europe didn't comply, so the government looked in the opposite direction. This is Europes fault as well.
The music had me thinking: "What a great commercial for Erdogan!"
Yeah the leader that has allowed their armed force to take “comfort women” by force from Syria and sell them to Turkish fighting factions in Libya.
The leader has came out in support of the old empire too in front of cheering crowds it’s horrific.
because it really was, he increased his power on the politics with the presidential system and with the support he gained in this coup, he’s unbeatable in the elections today
@@raquetdude I've heard this too, wonder how common the practise is
@@raquetdude do you really has a proof for that?
in the end it's what the people want
said the democracy
You know it’s heavy when civilians call for execution of the traitors. I was a soldier at that time stationed in Ardahan in the far east of Turkey. Soldiers who went to ankara were given orders to execute the president like how khadaffi and mubarek were executed. They used thanks to shoot the parlemental building in Ankara because they thought Erdogan was inside. Thank god he wasn’t.
Great documentary but you probably could’ve done a better job of explaining the movement behind the attempt.
its a propaganda piece lol not documentary
It was to apparently restore secular democracy, a job Ataturk gave to the military to ensure it stayed secular democracy.
@@elsosagaming I bet you think Tucker Carlson is a legitimate news source lol.
My mind is blurry around when the news was talking about this, I don't recall them ever mentioning the military's reason.
@@elsosagaming how? That's nonsense. There no explanation of what the goals are on either side. There's no good guys here they are all assholes.
I couldn't stop crying 😢 May Allah bless you all. What a brave nation!
This was so awesome. I'd love to visit Turkey! Very amazing to see the people of Turkey unite together like this.
It is perfect time to go there.
There lira is going down.
It is very cheap for you
@@antonio7497 lmao 🤣
@@antonio7497 dude
I remember that day can’t believe it’s already been 5 years
It was fake and designed to serve as a purge of high profile individuals who weren’t loyal to Erdogan. It resulted in a consolidation of power by Erdogan loyalists.
Erdogan is a puppet to foreign powers and the Turkish population is forced into mandatory conscription to be used as footsoldiers for neocolonial foreign powers.
@@MS-tc2fs yea.. ur life is also a conspiration. 😋
Made me cry. I pray for our people as a whole.
WOW!! Power to the People!! Standing up in unison is powerful. This is scary, humbling but most of all, I feel MASSIVE RESPECT for the people of Turkey, who stood up with their own lives in the face of tanks and gun's.
huge love and respect for brave Turkish people from Bangladesh🇧🇩💕🇹🇷
Well, if the point was to topple the current power, congratulations on achieving the exact opposite. Like it turned out to be a golden opportunity.
No it is Cıa mossad Attack
It could happen anywhere. The biggest component is the role the media plays. The biggest progress from events like this is people are seen, then the coverage leads to people being heard.
Turkish Military: "How did the coup possibly fail?!"
Idk, maybe next time don't run over cars with tanks and make the civilian population who you need support from, hate you.
Depends, historically without much popular support they can just shoot a lot more and still take control.
They should have taken better control of the media to demonize the enemy, tell everyone something absolutely evil about the enemy true or false doesn't matter, shoot any group of resistance as it was forming.
No real revolution is made without spilling blood.
@@MrRedsjack You can only do this if you aren't the enemy and the cause of the countries problems.
Its why republicans failed. You can only bullshit people with popular support before hand.
It was only a small group within the military
@@anilaltun2190 the size of the army doesn’t really matter rather what points they take over and how fast they take over them all and how well they defend them until the opposition starts to run out of resources
한국은 쿠데타시도 두번이나 있었고, 국민들이 겁쟁이들이라 두번다 못 막았음. 터키사람들은 대단하다 국민들이 목숨걸고 막았네. 근데 한국은 아이러니하게도 쿠데타일으킨 사람들이 나라를 더 발전시킴
이때 쿠데타도 아타튀르크가 정치와 종교를 분리 시킨거와 달리 이르도안이 반대로 종교를 정치에 더할려하고 특히 정치 경제에서의 실패가 너무 커서 쿠데타를 계획한겁니다. 그리고 국민들이 막았다기보다는 에르도안의 극심한 지지층이 막은겁니다
As a Turkish i got shoted 2 time from my back i love my homeland i can die for my homeland with no blink my eyeses. if u dont have a homeland ur nothing u need to keep homeland alive if price is my life i am ready to pay this with my life.
Islam is even more important.
@@SalehAbdurRaheemArapların masal kitabı.
@@munzevip-q5cnoldu bunu yazınca Türkçü felan mı hissettin kendini. Kimse benim dinime sallayamaz. Haddini bileceksin. Sana ağız dolusu küfür etmek isterdim ama öyle bir insan değilim. Ben Müslüman bir Türküm ve bununla gurur duyuyorum. Sana da acıyorum. Çünkü kimliğini kaybetmişsin.
@@zezistan. asıl kimliğini laybedip arap masalına inanan sensin atalarının dini tengrizm ve siz müslümanlık diye diye arap kölesi olan asimile olan varlıklardan birkacisiniz senden daha türküm ağzını topla filistine yardim etmek için mitingler atarken müslüman ama doğu türkistana zorla zulüm uygulanınca turk veya müslüman değil oylemi? Senin kanın bozuk.
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Sending love to your country. So sad all those lives lost. Stand together one love
You do know this was like 6 years ago, right?
@@BillyT886 The attempt may be over, but Gulenists and their antis still exist, so their struggle. It will take a long time for us to close this chapter.
@@BillyT886 so what if its 6 years ago? I still mourn my father to this day . What did seem bizarre here? Someone expressing themselves? You responded in the same time with the one you are questioning.
I wish my country was so united and strong, respect from Spain💪🏼
The whole vid kept on giving me chills, this is pure dedication and patriotism.
I don’t think you understand the background here. It was patriot to attempt a coup attempt against a conservative, religious autocrat. The military was trying to restore democracy and secularism.
@@ttrestle no, by patriotism I mean that the people were ready to give their life for what they believe was good for their country. This kind of sacrificial mindset is needed to be respected. Idc what the military wanted. I care about what the citizen wants as the main power of it's country lies in it's citizens.
@@saadsajidul9001 thats the thing, the citizens were willing to die for a borderline dictator.
Where else have we seen this…
@@ttrestle Lmao whatever you wanna think don’t care he just saved turkey from becoming an american puppet and an unstable country
@@ttrestle And that’s why the people supported it they knew what Americans were doing but your government hides it from you so you are clueless same with russia he is pushing them back too that is why he isn’t backed by anyone but turkey’s people
Flights canceled? That's fine, time for a documentary then.
What else can you do, really?
Seeing civilians escorting soliders out to be arrested was a crazy sight
Turkish are brave and strong race. many fight them hard, but they fight back harder. They will go stronger than they were.
It brought me to tears, there is no military rule that will ever be worth the bloodshed nor will there be peace behind weapons
The bravery of the citizens in the face of massacre and violence, has nearly brought me to tears. Their strength is unmatched 🙌
These citizens support Erdogan, a theocratic dictator that spits in the face of everything Ataturk worked to build. They all need to get got
They just allow a dictator to live
@@elchapojunior3091 fals.. there is all Not onLY Erdogan
Deep respect for these people, standing tall for what's right
Thanks a lot brother
It means a lot.
@@esra9993 np
These people have balls
Gosh the Turks are a proud and patriotic people! They REFUSED to let armed bullies take over their country. Absolutely amazing the bravery of those people that faced those traitor soldiers
Not gonna lie, before I clicked I thought this was going to be about the USA..
lmao
I'm literally at a lost for words.. just wow
But you still typed some words?
@@gladtownghost don’t be that guy Phil
.....at a "lost"
Lol it's "at a loss"
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Anyone who's been through the countless other coups (and attempts) in Turkish history can tell you with immense confidence that this was not a coup attempt. It was a dozen or two high ranking military officials that where bribed millions of Turkish Lira to order their subordinates to go to a few key locations in Turkey. Such as: Taksim Square, The National Archives, Istanbul International Airport etc. All the soldiers you see in these videos are conscripts who where woken up at around 23:00 and ordered to take equipment as they where going on a training mission. They had no idea they where about to be part of a "coup". High ranking commanders gave the orders to sergeants/warrant officers and then got in their private vehicles and fled the country with millions in their bank accounts. As I was watching this unfold I knew something was off. Coups in Turkey have always historically happened at 03-04:00 and you would wake up in the morning with the national news agency reading a decree by the Commander of the Armed Forces following a date where an election will be held (usually in around 1 years time). This has always been the way Turkey has conducted its coups.
Now, as a foreigner you might think, "Why on earth would anyone stage a coup?". Turkey has always been an extremely militaristic nation. All men get conscripted and there's a very big emphasis in youth education in history on Ottoman soldiers and the empire as a whole. But different from most countries the Turkish people have/had a saying; "Polis devletin, asker milletindir." Which translates too: "The police are the governments', the army is the peoples." During the 2013 Gezi Park protests which showed immense amount of police brutality hundreds and thousands of people fled the advancing water cannons and riot police officers straight into military barracks around Istanbul. The soldiers would simply tell the police that their duty is to protect the citizens of this country. They would inform the police that that is their ONLY duty and they are not responsible if some of these people are "criminals", as the army they felt responsibility to protect every single citizen from any sort of harm. This is all happening while Erdogan and his fascist cabinet are spreading their tentacles into every corner of the country. The one place that they had failed to put their people in charge of was the army. The army was always the one thing standing between Erdogan and complete power over the country, essentially a 21st century dictatorship. So this brilliant idea was hatched; around 600 troops took part in the entire coup, many of them conscripts aged 17-19, the coup brought the people together and it seemed like Erdogan was the saviour. What did he do once the coup was supressed? Fired %10 of all civil servants (judges, lawyers, teachers, notary's etc.), closed THOUSANDS of educational institutions, imprisoned TENS OF THOUSANDS of people who where said to be traitors. And the best part of it all, he got rid of the minister of defence, appointed his own man as the new Commander of the Armed Forces and then officially attached the Turkish Armed Forces to the Presidency, making himself the Commander-in-Chief. And this is pretty much a general overview of the entire thing. I'll gladly explain more if anyone wants to know about it. I was there when it happened, I knew people who where stationed in other military bases around the country while it happened. Ever since the military got out of Erdogan's way he got more, and more and more power and look what he's done now... Ran the country into the ground. We're a disgrace of a nation, we've had the worst economical year in our history, we've got more journalists imprisoned then any other western nation, human rights are a joke.
I used to be proud to be Turkish, but now I look at what we've become and I cannot even fathom it.
You wrote a lot of stuff that I agree with, but the possibility of a staged coup occuring without anyone knowing is pretty far fetched when you think about it. I mean, the Gulenist organization acting as a deep state parallel organization was a widely known fact, as they provided the intellectual and financial muscle to AKP for most of its existence. Now there's a change that Erdogan knew maybe, but I highly doubt that this was a planned coup. If anything it was US orchestrated lol
You’re doing great despite everything clearly you’re great at writing and explaining so thank you but Turkey is on a bright path just wait for the investments to come in now!
could you explain the exact same thing you just did in a shorter paragraph? i have difficulty reading long paragraphs
@@josephkwon3904 the coup is staged, Army has always been siding with the people before this coup and opposing Erdogan full control over Turkey. The coup is used by Erdogan as justification to takes full control of the army and dismantling his main opposition group.
@@josephkwon3904 Read about auto coups and self coups to learn more. Look at the current situation in Tunisian rn. Coup feels like the word of 2021 imo but there are many different types and even all the ones this year were different types. A leader trying to make a national emergency in an effort to consolidate power is an old strategy but it unfolds in different ways depending on the country. In the US in January we had a president use "brown shirts" or citizen soldiers for his coup. But he was also still in control of the military and comprised our Pentagon and kept them from allowing clearance for our National Guard to deploy onto the Capitol during the attempted coup. The fighting/storming was just one of the parts because there were legal coups drafted up as well. No country is impossible to overthrow or overtake in an authoritarian way. All you need is enough ppl in power to say "yes".
Biz korkusuz Türkleriz 😍
Her zaman böyleydik.
Her zaman böyle olacağız !!!
Korkmak kaçmak bizim kültürünüzde olamaz…
I think people need to understand the political situation in Turkey. Ataturk who was the founder of the republic envisioned a secular and democratic nation and entrusted the safekeeping of democracy and secularism to the military. Previous coups in turkey actually restored democratic institutions. While I'm no expert on the socio political context of this latest one, we should realize that Erdogan does intact push the nation to conservatism and does act in autocratic ways...
And he's clearly popular because of it, not every country is like the West, Western style democracy has simply failed in most countries in the world
@@ibadurrehman1210 I agree, im not saying im opposed to Erdogan on a geopolitical level. I get that maybe people want a more conservative society, im just saying that Ataturk established a framework for what he considered the modern Turkey to look like and then entrusted the military with the power to enforce it. So regardless of what I believe, I would say that the coup was not necessarily an irrational act, its entirely rational granted the historical context. Yet considering the inflation of the lira, the state of the Turkish economy, and Erdogans actions against press freedom and western allies, I think it could be better.
@@ibadurrehman1210 thats bs, he mid have been popular, but removing the opposition, mean that people cant redecide.
he has ruined the country, with corupption and his incompetence, the lira is worthless, turky has lost all its firends and money.
western demociracy has failed bc of people like him. democracy is the only way, a dictzator doesnt care for the people. Look wich countrys have the best living standarts and which have the worst, democracys are on top, while dictatorships are at the bottom, this isnt a matter of culture, some thinks are universally bad, and dictatorships is one of those things
That what we what islamic ruling
Bir türk olarak size katılmıyorum.
I was always convinced that somehow Erdogan made the coup happen so he would have an excuse to power grab.
There are just too many unlikely events that played right into his hands
Hayır. Türkiye'de Gülen cemaati vardı. Devletin her kurumunda etkindi. 50 yıllık bir örgüttür. ABD destekli bir örgüttü.
@@esraa4789 kanıt yok
@@CataciousAmogusevic Kanıt yok mu? Kanıt var hem de çok.
@@esraa4789 hani
The braveness of Turks is unmatched.
Wow, the Turkish are so brave. They seem so united. The coup didn't stand a chance against the citizens....It's a shame so many died for nothing
Now we pray for pakistan they done the same there and hope people do the same there
@@freemanzak8995 hell nah. y'all barely a nation... got no legacy but those tribesmen who bomb stuff smh
Hiç uğruna ölmediler. Adalet için öldüler. Zalimlerden korkmadılar. Erdoganı halk seçti ve sadece halk gönderebilir. Amerikanın köleleri degil. Amerika pkk, ypg, ypj gibi terör örgütlerini silahlandırıp üstümüze salıyor. Ama bu millet eğilmez. Başaramıyacaksınız. Ne mutlu Türk'üm diyene. Ne mutlu ki bana adelet için hak için savaşan bir halkın parçasıyım inşallah bu yolda ölürüm. Zalimler için yaşasın cehennem.
This video gives me the feels. Awesome people.
I think it's good to also tell the military reasoning. They are tasked to protect the democracy and the secular state as envisioned by Atatürk. They did that many times before and reinstated a democratic government immediately afterwards.
Erdogan is on a path to become a dictator. And all the values the Turks differed with from most of the Arab world are slowly getting lost. That's why they tried to overthrow Erdogan.
Exactly
and yet he was protected by the majority this is what democracy looks like
@@Relaxatihon The same situation in Russia.
Yeah that’s democracy the army can’t just remove the government if he doesn’t like it. the arab world is different in many ways just look at Egypt and how the army is running things there after a coup d'état
But if the majority of the population prefers more Islamic rule than secular, then let it be since that’s democracy
Big respect to the unarmed civilians who fought for their country 🇹🇷!
Sadly, same thing is happening on Sudan right now.
Backstory of the coup:
The Fetullah Gülen organisation is a religious extremist sect from Turkey. The sect exists since 1964. Over the years, they grew stronger and stronger. İn 1999, Gülen was to be arrested because of charges of infiltrating the state and trying to overthrow the Republic and replace it by sharia law, like in İran. He fled from Turkey and never returned back.
İn 2003-2013 Erdoğan and Gülen were actually cooperating with each. İn two separate courtcases thousands of Generals, Admirals, high ranking Police and many more were put into jail with fake charges.
Then, in late 2013 Gülen tried to overthrow Erdoğan by causing civil unrest. İt didnt work out. Now, Gülen and Erdoğan were split. Erdoğan brought out the innocent people from prison, although back then he had helped Gülen to put them into prison.
Anyway, now Gülens people were being cleaned out from the state. They had actually captured around a third of all the state we could say. They recruited their own men into positions in ministries, Police, Military and so on. Now since they were being cleaned out, the only way they saw was to do a coup.
That coup was done on the 15.07.2016. It failed due to a few big reasons: 1. They didnt manage to cut off internet in Turkey. 2. The commander who should have taken over the highest command position, was killed. 3. Only a small part of the Military was actually doing a coup.
The coup ultimately failed.
Gülen is a terrorist. He and his organisation tried to end the Republic twice. Their ultimate target is to make Turkey an İslamic Republic, so a dictatoship like İran is nowadays. Erdoğan today is an autocrat, but at least when hes gone we can return to normal. With Gülen, there wouldnt be a way back to democrcy for dozens of years
I hope that after Erdogan you get a capable leader who, together with the government can get the country on its feet again. Turkey has a big potential to be a both economical and a geopolitical superpower in the region but with Erdogan style of politics, which includes making as much as possible enemies, ruining relations with other nations, spending money recklessly in war operations outside of Turkey and basically destroying economy, the potential has been postponed for several years.
@@Byrzzaa I am hopeful for good leadership after Erdoğan. We just have to hold out until the next elections, then he hopefully is done.
Not to mention how U.S is refusing to arrest and send Gullen back to Turkey, since he is exiled in the U.S, making it kind of suspicious
Bro finally. Do you know how many Turks can't properly explain or know this this stuff. I've been giving super long explanations on the events for years now. But this was a very well summary of the events as they happened.
The only thing you should maybe add is the leaked tapes from gulen where he tells his followers to take over every possible institution with the ultimate goal tot Ake over the state. Ironically even tells them to not stroke before the eggs are cooked lol (before it's the right time). But Erdogan kicking his followers out of powerful positions forced their hand...
As someone that dislikes Erdogan. Purging the Gulenists is probably the best thing to happen ti Turkey in the past 20 / 30 years. And I'm terrified the opposition might be too lax on the issue if they ever gain power. Esp with Chaps current situation and that Kk refusing to leave backed by all his hometown people that he filled every position with.
Nepotism in Turkey is rampant on all sides unfortunately
This is the vice news I found informative, I wanted to say loved, for the raw exposure of what is going on, but the loss of life, the slaughter of those people made me change my response. It would be disrespectful to those who died. Thank you vice for sharing this story.
Wait till they cover that Turkey has comfort women stolen from northern Syria and then being sold to Turkish militias in Libya.
Their armed forces are technically commuting a genocide there against the Kurds and Assyrian people there too.
It’s especially fucked when you realise they are a NATO member.
@@raquetdude And yet not a single one of your fabricated allegations are being reported by Reuters, humans rights watch or amnesty international? 🤔
Get out of your little hate filled bubble and try reading real news.
Man, I visited Russia during this time and did a layover in Istanbul. The day after I landed in Istanbul, but was already in Russia, the Airport had a terrorist attack. Then after two weeks in Russia, my return trip was through that same airport. One day after I was already home, Martial Law was declared....crazy two weeks in Istanbul.
Burası Türkiye, ulan.
Kimseye vermeyis bu vatanı!
I feel so bad for those solders that were defending their government, only to get killed by their fellow solders.
The turkish are no joke!
Ready too die For the flag every Moment
Same,they are you crazy
I love Turkey, may Allah bless Turkish brothers, love from Pakistan
Hahahah.....two bankrupt countries in the FATF grey list. Anyway how's polio vaccination going considering Afghanistan and Pakistan are the only countries suffering from polio
Turkish People are so strong Ma Shaa Allah
Love from Pakistan
WOW ... That was extreme. I could feel the energy through the screen.
Imagine you’ve just had a hard day at work, you finally clock out, you’re all ready to drive home & see your family, then you step out to 1:51
"Did the greeks invade us?"
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😮💨
We rise again from where we fell. as we always do.
Whats weird about the Turkish uprising, is it was a Modern DEVELOPED city. Its weird seeing coup-led F-16's buzzing highly delevoped cities with sky scrapers, firing on targets that are so minor. (minor as in, the military isn;'t having all out war in the streets against coup-led troops. its just little small pockets here and there)
wish people in my country
had such pride and courage
This footage is insane. It's nice to see how brave the people were, even though the current leader isn't doing so well. This isn't the way to go about it though. Violence to gain power just leads to more division and violence.
power for powers sake never ends well for normal people
War, never changes.
So what is the non-violent was of overthrowing a dictatorship?
@@2011blueman Not so much as "non violent", but more so calculated violence and political moves. If you really want to overtake your government with your military, and actually give freedom to the people and not oppress them, then you must have an overwhelming percentage of the military and government on board before doing so. If not, then the "new" government will just be shattered and have too many problems all at once to reasonably maintain.
Sure, Turkey isn't perfect, but they have a system in place that relies on many things working together with people that have experience running things. If the new government can't get anyone to listen to it, what will most likely happen? Chaos. Most positions will be filled by inexperienced people that rely on violence to get their way. Then a fight for power over the "new government" will take place because usually there will be people power hungry enough to want to become the next dictator.
Look at any country in the last 100 years that have overthrown their government with the military and tell me how they're doing.
So by love? Huh?
I’m a huge fan of this open source series. No narrative, no manipulation, just pure, raw and uncut.
Whaaa? Did you watch the video?
They only showed one side. We're supposed to sympathize with the "people" who think they are supporting "democracy".
Raw footage doesn't mean no narrative or no manipulation. You just pick what to show and what not to show.
Why do some parts look staged?
@@brett4264 fair point. I was more inferring that there isn’t some talking head trying to explain away the situation. Just from what I gathered and based on the info given at the end of the video, the President of Turkey is/has been consolidating his power into more of a dictatorship. Which seems more than not to be the preferred form of government in these Islamist countries. That’s why I’ve always been against U.S. intervention in the Middle East trying to spread Democracy as usually either the populace of said countries don’t want it or don’t get it or both. They seem to love authoritarianism.
Litteraly the fskes coup ever. Did anyone ever find out what their objectives were. What orders were given to soldiers. Litteraly seemed like the orders were go to this road and wait with no purpose.
Not all coup went on as planned, some others are not well planned. This was one of them. And erdogan capitalized it to do his own agenda, and he has a far better plan
You probably think all those civilians that died are actors too
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The coup could've been faked, but real people died. Fake means done on purpose to garner more power for Erdogan.
@@704chopsuey4 Nope I think Erdogan is happy to stage a coup where civilians are actually killed by confused soldiers just to solidify his power.
@@Drkon6 How can real people not be killed in a staged coup? I'm saying the organization of the coup was staged. I'm sure soldiers were given orders to hold positions and people got shot or crushed. Entirely irrelevant to the staging.
Brought tears in my eyes
Must be a very emotional moment
Finally a little information at the end. With the smooshy music it felt like a propaganda film. More actual info please.
yeah this makes Erdogan seem like a hero. It doesn't talk about how he used this as an opportunity to jail all opposition, restructure the government to where he has the final say as well as destroy the economy and make the lives of all citizens hell
@@IamMclov1n25 what was he meant to do? If this happened in the US, all anti Biden supporters would be locked up as well
@Syphax Atlas there is a difference between traitors of the state and opposition. Just because someone doesn't agree with you doesn't make them a traitor.
If you can't understand this I don't know what to tell you.
Looking at this event..i gotta say it was one of the most interesting and surreal events to have watched unfold.
Turkish failed coup clips make me emotional everytime, but today my heart is crying with every fired bullet, as it could be the future 🇵🇰💔
Fascinating. Vice at it again, good job. Would have been great it if the video was even longer with even more on the ground perspectives
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I remember watching this on the news, this is never before seen footage for me holy Christ
Looks like Erdogan took that opportunity to get rid of anyone he didn't like. It was like a gift to him.
He was likely the one behind the faux coup.
@@anderslarsen4412 eh, i won’t call this coup “faux”. But did Erdogan piggyback on this coup and use it for his own govt’s benefits? Yes.
@@anderslarsen4412 Maybe you're right. He seems to be the one that benefited the most.
@@anderslarsen4412 I ponder this too, we probably won't know the truth for some time if ever, but the end result is the same
Yeah thank God that hapoen he's here to stay
Respect an das Türkische Volk ❤☝️
You guys should do a part two explaining who's the movement behind the coup, they are called Hizmet or FETO and still operating outside of turkey throug their schools and cultural center
But do they have democracy anymore ? 🤣🤣🤣🤣 IT was a perfect trick for Erdogan to consolidate his power. LOOL
It’s actually a great country and most ( not all people) support him 🤷🏾♂️ it’s just like any other place some people support him some don’t !
@@OFAFIRIKA Its a country with economy in the gutter and Islamist fanatics. People are idiots , they will support anyone who feeds them insecurity , religious nonsense or nationalism. Intelligent people are leaving Turkey. All my Turkish friends are completely negative about future of Turkey.
It wasn’t staged however he took advantage
Today this is only word... empty word.
@UC9lDv5pQOwQYfwGG4pCDXjA Dumb ass turkey is doing now better then ever. exept in times of othmans. I dont know where your trash information is coming from lol
Turkish people did beat the army without weopons, bu besides people policeman have been fighting the army. Also special forces the elite fighter soldiers where also in control of Erdogan, they did fight heavily against the army…. In the first hours Turkish secret service did call an army officer in an building… in control of Fetullah Gulen soldiers… they did ask him to kill the leader of the army coup… it was an general…. They said if you kill him you know you will not survive…he said he did accept this order willingly and he did kill the coup leader in the first hours… this was the coup was in panic 😱… uprising people fighting police and special forces did beat the army …
But still it is bad because it did take about 12 hours to win this war… normally 2 hours was enough of people did have their own weopons they could beat the army in 2 hours without help from police of special forces.
His name was Omer. I am still searching for his story, how he managed to kill coup leader.
Askerlerin arasına girip kafasından vurdu .sonra diğer askerlerde onu şehit etti
I was on the streets that day, not because erdogan said so, not because of him, not because of Islam cuz I'm atheist. I fought on that day for my country, for my nation. Coup is not a solution and never will be neither for us nor for other countries.
@Jimmy it's far better than the consequences of coup.
the coup would’ve made another dictatorship come
@@yasingursel1611 yeah it's far better right now where you get 0.06 euros for 1 lira
@@yasingursel1611 How is the result would be different if the same people behind the coup?... Kardeş?
@Donny why? because i just state the fact that you get 0.05 euros for 1 whole lira
When Americans see a narrative they don't like, they call it propaganda or start questioning the origin of the video. Its a pattern across all political parties in America, whether left-wing or right-wing.
Not just America
The west in general
So what do they do in the East?
@@dr.coomer789 Its great you see there's no difference between West and East.
After a long years suffering from dozen miltary coup....turkey has become this strong nationa...a big respect from Malaysia brother 🇲🇾
Islamophobes and Islamic Extremists: Islam and Democracy xannot co exist
People of the Turkey: Hold my Turkish Flag.
1:50 My man playing GTA irl.Running over cars bcoz he's literally in a tank and the car isn't 🤣🤣
Why do some parts look staged?
@@LowMedow Maybe they are so ridiculous they look staged.Bro mutiny is no fking joke to be staged i guess.
I was vacationing in Colombia when I saw this on the news and was stunned
Turkish army already knew how to do coup before 15 July 2016, before it there was 9 coups happened in Turkey in just 50 years all of them were successful for military. I am not saying coup is a true way to bring a justice into a country. But with over 800.000 soldiers in the army and experienced army staff which know how to fight and do coup because of the insurgent fighting against insurgencies inside of the turkey since 1980s and coup history with 100% success rate. In 15 July coup there was roughly over 1000 solders with less than 10 jets and small amount of armoured vehicles and tanks. People who are curios check the 1980s and rest of the coups happened in Turkey and size of it. You might be curios why am I writing these facts here, after the Erdogan purged the Turkish army over 80% of its officers has fired or made retired with force. This same events happened for teachers, police force, government workers, lawyers, jurists every aspect of working force for government purged. After the coup OHAL started which is State of Emergency all powers are directly went under Erdogan. Since then Turkish Parliament(TBMM) lost its functions. Before the coup Erdogan was failing at the election pools for incoming General Election after the coup with powers he had he delayed election a year and increase his popularity back. Economy collapsed in Turkey. Every open minded citizen of Turkey knows there was only one winner after the coup, and he is the Erdogan. Timing of Vice News releasing of this video just made me curios. Why is it too late, why didn't you memorize brave citizen of turkey which had lost their life in better time? Why did you choose a time when currently Erdogan is way behind of his opponents in pools for next election?
Thanks for all the details except 1. This coup was supposed to happen at 3:00 AM while everyone is was deep asleep. The country was supposed to wake up to a coup and a curfew, no transportation, no services, helpless with every institution and strategic location already under control of military junta before dawn like the ones you mentioned which had happened before. What made this one different and a failure? Erdogan’s intelligence got a whiff of it on the day from the unusual phone traffic and movements in the military circles as they were getting ready logistically for the 3:00 AM execution of the plan. When the military found out Erdogan’s security detail got a whiff , it was decided to deprive Erdogan time to counter so it was executed in haste 6 hours ahead of schedule from the initial 3:00 AM plan, depriving the junta logistical advantage of putting tanks and soldiers in place beforehand to control crowds and enforce a curfew.
Gördün mü seçim sonucunu? Geride miymiş Erdoğan? Uza şimdi
The previous video about this from your channel was terrible. But this is the best video I've ever seen. As a Turkish I learnt a lot from this video. Really thank you guys
9:50 look at the soldiers/guards holding the firearms but realizing in awe that true power in that moment was in the hands of the person speaking. Very interesting moment captured
Assumptions
Amazing as a pakistani straight up lessons from Turkey
This was the big slap on america face by Muslim of turkey ❤️❤️
Been waiting for this
In Turkey the military is entitled with the duty to keep the country a secular democracy and whenever the country tries to become a divisive Islamic state, the Turkish military comes in to declare a coup. This is not the first time the Turkish military has done a military coup in order to restore the secular Constitution with which the country was founded. Only this time because of social media and Eardogan’s right wing Nationalist supporters the coup failed. Today turkey is in the FATF grey list, along side countries like Yemen and Pakistan, their economy is doing very bad and the country is being questioned for it’s human rights record. I don’t think the fall of one-night revolution was good thing.
There are also many conspiracies that the coup was staged by erdogan himself as he only benefitted from it in the end
Yeah but when you kill your own citizens and with ppl able to access information on their phone, it is just not possible. Public is divided 50/50 on Erdogan, If it was 60% or more they might have succeeded. And need remember Erdogan was the same person who was liberal in early 2000s and basically doubled the Turkish economy, and a dictator now. I don't think he is going anywhere now.
it is not a good thing that it failed
@@vanhoot2234 it is, as long as it doesn't serve your interests it's bad, right?
Thinking this is one of the coups made by secular turkish army is totally wrong. This coup was made by radical islamist FETO and their militants inside turkish army. They thought that this is our last chance (becouse thir relationship with erdogan gone bad) for restoring our power and went straight in with some mid-ranked soldiers thinking the rest of the army and people would support the coup. But even tho turkish people are being ruled by Erdogan they stood with democracy. Not even the army as a whole supported the coup
ANY UP DATE ON THIS?
This was long ago. The coup failed, Turkey continues on as normal
Thank you for your interest❤️❤️❤️🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷
Turkish peoples are very brave they can do anything for their homeland. i.e Gallipoli
Geliboluda savaşan anzak askerlerine türkiyeden selam olsun son centilmenler savaşı avusturalyalı kardeşim gerçek dostlardır türkiyede büyük saygı görürler. Çünkü onlar bizimle mertçe savaştı ingilizler gibi haince savaşmadılar.