Update: to nobody’s surprise, moments ago the Turkish police is said to have denied such reports of an “imminent attack.”
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Whether credible, or the latest in a long line of false flag events to spread panic and fear and further cement Erdogan’s authoritarian power, moments ago newswires reported that people are being evacuated form the Turkish parliament building as there has been information about an imminent attack on the building, the Cumhuriyet newspaper reported on Monday.
“We have been informed of an attack. The Meclis is being evacuated,” the newspaper quotes member of the Peoples’ Democracy Party Ziya Pir.
Picture of one of the entrances to the Parliament in #Ankara, buses blocking it #Turkey http://pic.twitter.com/lh8W6D6Ew4
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The news has pushed the Turkish Lira to intraday lows, which sending gold and safe haven assets modestly higher. US equity futures, in true form, remain unchanged.
And in other news, while algos focus on this latest “staged” attack, the real news was reported by Turkish NTV which said that Turkey bans all trips by public employees, ostensibly to make it easier for Erdogan to hunt them down and arrest them, all in the name of the “democratic process” so important to NATO.
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