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Coup In Turkey Fails
Defiant Turks prepare for a fresh uprising after 250 are killed: Brave civilians take to the streets again after seeing off a failed military coup, dragging cowering soldiers from their tanks and beating them in the streets
- Civilians reclaimed Turkey from their own military after helping to end coup to overthrow ruling President Erdogan
- Ordinary Turks confronted rifle-wielding soldiers and laid in front of tanks in an effort to take back control of country
- Some 104 plotters were killed, while 160 people – at least 41 of them police officers and 47 civilians – fell as ‘martyrs’
- Erdogan has told civilians to ‘keep on owning the streets’ over fears that renewed military action could flare up
- At least 1,500 are wounded in the bloody uprising as Erdogan supporters clashed with the military rebels on Friday
Defiant Turkish civilians reclaimed the country from their own military after helping to end a coup by the army to overthrow President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who called on people to remain on the streets today over fears over a fresh uprising.
Ordinary Turks confronted rifle-wielding soldiers, climbed atop tanks and laid in front of military vehicles in an effort to take back control of the country, ignoring a curfew issued by coup plotters designed to allow the army to bring down the government unopposed.
President Erdogan called on people to take to the streets, leading to reports of groups of soldiers surrendering at several key locations in Ankara and Istanbul, including Bosphorus Bridge, where 100 rebels laid down their arms and submitted themselves to advancing civilians and police officers.
There were unconfirmed reports of one soldier being beheaded by a mob of civilians on the bridge after a video surfaced online showing a crowd launching an attack on the downed man. However in the video the man is still alive and shows no beheading, though it is unknown if this happened after the footage ended.
This morning the President used Twitter to call on supporters to prevent any additional military action, adding: ‘We should keep on owning the streets no matter at what stage because a new flare-up could take place at any moment.’
Some 104 plotters were killed after a coup attempt to bring down the Turkish government, while 160 people – at least 41 of them police and 47 civilians – fell as ‘martyrs’.
Throughout the night, supporters of Erdogan threw themselves in front of tanks at key landmarks to prevent the military from maintaining a stranglehold on the country, notably outside Ataturk airport in Istanbul, where some civilians lodged themselves under the wheels of tanks to stop them from advancing.
More than 2,800 rebels have been detained after their failed military coup that killed at least 250 and wounded more than 1,500, with Erdogan vowing revenge for the bloody uprising.
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A civilian punches a Turkish soldier who took part in the failed military coup as he is led away by police having surrendered
Thousands of supporters of President Recep Erdogan congregated in Istanbul awaiting for him to address a major rally
Supporters of President Recep Erdogan clashed with journalists near the Turkish military headquarters in Ankara following the coup
The President used Twitter to call on supporters to prevent any additional military action, adding: ‘We should keep on owning the streets no matter at what stage because a new flare-up could take place at any moment’
Thousands of people congregated outside the parliament building in Ankara as a crisis meeting was held to discuss the attempted coup
Turkish Prime Minsiter Binali Yildirim briefed politicians on the attempted coup in the national parliament in Ankara
Senior members of the judiciary and chief of the military chief of staff General Hulusi Akar, centre, attended the emergency meeting
A relative of polie officer Nedip Cengiz Eker clings to his coffin during his funeral in Marmaris, Turkey following last night’s coup attempt
Eker received a guard of honour from the Turkish navy and military who remained loyal to president Recep Erdogan last night
President Erdogan has described those who died protecting his government as martyrs while branding the insurgents as traitors
Hundreds of Turks have taken to the streets to ensure no fresh coup could take place after last night’s uprising was defeated
A soldier cowers as he is confronted by plain-clothes police officers and civilians after the military surrendered on Bosphorus Bridge
People wave national flags as they march from Kizilay square to Turkish General Staff building to react against military coup attempt
A young girl joins police officers loyal to President Erdogan atop a tank abandoned by military personnel who surrendered
More than 2,800 rebels have been detained after their failed military coup that killed at least 250 as Turkish President Erdogan vows revenge for the bloody uprising (pictured: Up to 100 rebel soldiers surrendered on Bosphorus Bridge after their failed uprising)
Ordinary Turks confronted rifle-wielding soldiers, climbed atop tanks and laid in front of military vehicles in an effort to take back control of the country, ignoring a curfew issued by coup plotters designed to allow the army to bring down the government unopposed
There were unconfirmed reports of one soldier being beheaded by a mob of civilians on the bridge after a video surfaced online showing a crowd launching an attack on the downed man. However in the video the man is still alive and shows no beheading, though it is unknown if this happened after the footage ended
People wave Turkish flags as they stand around the Republic Monument in Taksim Square in Istanbul, Turkey
Men wave flags as they stand on tanks as people walk on the Bosphorus Bridge after taking over the military position in Istanbul
A Turkish civilian whips soldiers with his belt after they surrendered to police on Bosphorus Bridge, a strategic landmark which was seized by the army during the coup
People climb on tanks after around a hundred soldiers occupying Bosphorus Bridge surrendered in Istanbul, Turkey
The President made his triumphant return back to Istanbul after his forces quelled the coup on Friday evening, as he warned that the members of the military behind the plot to oust him would pay a ‘heavy price for their treason’.
Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said that, while the death penalty was abolished in Turkey in 2004, the country may consider legal changes to deter any such coup happening again.
The Greek police ministry said a Turkish military helicopter landed in Greece this morning and eight men on board, thought to be senior coup plotters, have requested political asylum. Turkey has asked for the men, made up of seven soldiers and one civilian, to be extradited back to the country.
The rebel army faction – who call themselves the ‘Peace Council’ – said they were trying to overthrow the government to ‘protect human rights’ and restore democracy from Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party, AKP, which has repeatedly faced criticism from human rights groups and Western allies over its brutal crackdowns on anti-government protesters.
However, Erdogan has blamed his old scapegoat, Fethullah Gulen for orchestrating the uprising. Muslim cleric Gulen, the president’s rival who lives in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania, U.S. as the head of a billion dollar religious movement, has often been blamed for political unrest in Turkey.
One bloodied soldier cowered underneath a coach as a mob started beating him on Istanbul’s Bosphorus Bridge
The five hours of chaos began when two busloads of soldiers burst into the headquarters of the state-run TRT news agency, taking news off the air and replacing it with a stream of weather forecasts.
After launching the coup, the Turkish military imposed a curfew on civilians telling them to stay in their homes, but Erdogan called on supporters to ignore the order and take to the streets, which is thought to have caused the army to relinquish control.
Turkey’s top general Hulusi Akar was taken hostage at the military headquarters in the capital Ankara after an attempt to bring down the government, but was rescued during the night.
One military official, Navy Fleet Commander Admiral Veysel Kosele, is currently unaccounted for and it is unknown whether or not he was part of the coup against President Erdogan.
Turkey’s state-run news agency said five warships which reportedly set sail during the attempted coup have returned to their military port in northwest Turkey, but it is unclear whether or not the Admiral was abroad one of the ships.
After the uprising was crushed in the early hours of Saturday morning, Erdogan told the gathered masses at Ataturk Airport that those loyal to Gulen had ‘penetrated the Armed Forces and the police, among other government agencies, over the past 40 years’.
‘What is being perpetrated is a rebellion and a treason,’ Erdogan said. ‘They will pay a heavy price for their treason to Turkey.’
Soldiers, who surrendered following the defeat of last night’s attempted coup, are loaded onto a bus following their arrest by police officers and civilians
A man lays down in front of a tank on the approach to Ataturk airport in Istanbul as citizens took to the streets to oppose the military coup
Civilians launch an attack on an armoured police car carrying Turkish soldiers who participated in the coup against President Erdogan
People celebrate on an abandoned military tank after they took over military position on the Bosphorus bridge in Istanbul
People shout at the soliders involved in the coup attempt who have surrendered on Bosphorus Bridge following their surrender
A soldier lies dead underneath rubble following the defeat of a military coup by Turkey’s army to overthrow President Erdogan
Police officers arrest a soldier after he was attacked by a mob of civilians following the surrender of 100 rebels on Bosphorus Bridge in Istanbul
Up to 100 rebel soldiers surrendered on Bosphorus Bridge after their failed uprising. At least 2,863 connected have been arrested in connection with the dramatic coup which lasted approximately five hours.
New British foreign secretary Boris Johnson said on Twitter that he has spoken to Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu following the attempted military coup, adding: ‘I underlined UK support for the democratic elected government and institutions.’
Explosions and gunfire erupted in Istanbul and Ankara on Friday night during the coup which killed at least 250 people in the army’s bid to overthrow the Islamic government.
‘We have taken control’: Turkish military launch coup to… 
‘Stay indoors’: British tourists trapped in Turkey and… 
Four coups in 56 years: How Turkey has been plagued by… 
Turkey on brink of Civil War: Mobs of defiant civilians face… Elsewhere troops opened fire on civilians attempting to cross the river Bosporus in Istanbul in protest to the military coup, while a bomb exploded at the parliament building according to the state’s press agency as the security situation in the country becomes more perilous.
Colonel Muharrem Kose reportedly led the Turkish military forces in the uprising.
Kose had recently been kicked out of the army, from his position as head of the military’s legal advisory department, over his links to Gulen. He was killed during the clashes with Erdogan’s supporters, sources report.
Civilians take cover outside the building of the General Staff, the final landmark still held by coup plotters who are in the process of surrendering to police officers
A Turkish policeman and other people stand atop of a military vehicle in Ankara after crushing the rebellion
Clothes and weapons beloging to soldiers involved in the coup attempt that have now surrendered lie on the ground abandoned on Bosphorus Bridge
The man then stood up and took off his shirt in an effort the present the tank from taking position in the airport
The police siege around the building of the General Staff, thought to be the final landmark held by coup plotters who are in the process of negotiating their surrender
As military took to the streets, Erdogan had urged his supporters to ignore a curfew and take back control of the country.
Tanks and armoured personnel carriers tried to seize strategic points in Istanbul and Ankara but were faced down by unarmed civilians who lay down in front of the heavy armour.
Police special forces headquarters was also hit and was razed to the ground. Other witnesses reported attack helicopters firing machine guns in the capital Ankara in a bid to depose the Islamic government.
There were also reports that a Turkish Air Force F-16 had shot down a Sikorsky helicopter over Ankara. The government claimed the jet destroyed the helicopter which had been ‘hijacked by coup plotters’.
In Takism square, around 30 rebel soldiers surrendered following a gun battle with police loyal to Erdogan. A number of F-16 fighter jets had screamed across the square at low level blasting the area with a sonic boom.
During the night, both the civilian government and the military claimed they were in control of the country, with reports of sporadic gunfire and explosions.
In a statement, the army faction said that they took action ‘to reinstall the constitutional order, democracy, human rights and freedoms, to ensure that the rule of law once again reigns in the country, for the law and order to be reinstated’.
The Turkish military has also long seen its role as safeguarding Turkey’s secularist agenda, and has staged numerous coup’s over the last 60 years when it feels the government’s stance is moving too far away from that.
Civilians help police officers to arrest soldiers at Taksim Square in Istanbul after ordinary Turks helped to stop the attempted coup
People gather for celebration around Turkish police officers, loyal to the government, standing atop tanks abandoned by Turkish army officers
Meanwhile, Erdogan made it clear he believes rival Gulen is behind the attack.
Gulen’s nonprofit organization, the Alliance for Shared Values, denies any involvement and condemned the actions of the Turkish military.
Gulen, 75, was initially a close ally of Erdogan, who rose from the mayor of Istanbul to prime minister before he became president in 2014.
But the two fell out over a massive corruption scandal in 2013 that cost the country $100billion in a campaign thought to be initiated by Gulen’s followers against Erdogan’s closest allies.
Trained as an imam, Fethullah Gulen gained notice in Turkey some 50 years ago, promoting a philosophy that blended a mystical form of Islam with staunch advocacy of democracy, education, science and interfaith dialogue.
Erdogan has long accused Gulen of plotting to overthrow the officially secular government from a gated 26-acre compound in Pennsylvania’s Pocono Mountains, which has a population of about 1,100.
The President, who was on vacation in the resort town of Marmaris when the coup began, issued a statement to CNN tonight referring to a ‘parallel structure’ behind the coup, a reference to Gulen’s followers.
Supporters of Recep Tayyip Erdogan ambush a tank as it attempts to seize ground in Turkey’s capital city of Ankara
One man throws himself onto the front of a moving tank. Supporters played a key role in stopping the military from taking control
Turkish civilians throw a tarpaulin over a tank to stop it from seizing control of key locations in Ankara
Pictured: Groups of protesters take to the streets of Ankara and face down soldiers rolling through the city in tanks
23 Comments on "Coup In Turkey Fails"
John on Sat, 16th Jul 2016 2:28 pm
Something isn’t right about this….who plans a takeover of 80 million people so poorly…. it’s almost a funny movie in relation to military campaigns…I wonder what the real plan was for this????
Apneaman on Sat, 16th Jul 2016 3:05 pm
They should have another one.
Deuce coupe’s are better than 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwgGuadsqyo
Anonymous on Sat, 16th Jul 2016 5:25 pm
A lot of things are not clear on this. Who was behind the ‘coup’, what were their aims, objectives, and objections to the erdo regime? Were they globalists?, nationalists? Are they pro terrorist, I mean NATO? And so on. Where did erdo go to hide when this thing first broke? The south of France? Favorite home-away-from home for deposed dictators. No point tuning in the lame-stream media for ‘news’ on this, its just the usual steady diet of lies and disinformation. IE, the daily mail.
Why anyone would defend that ape erdodgan, besides his cronies and globalist friends inside turkey, is also curious. When I see erdo telling his people to ‘take back the country’, one cant help point out, ‘turkey’ has little independence, or freedom, or anything like it, with erdo and his pals in charge.
onlooker on Sat, 16th Jul 2016 5:34 pm
One thing is clear Erdo was getting closer to Russia and that surely did not make US happy. So, 1 + 1 =2.
Apneaman on Sat, 16th Jul 2016 7:49 pm
Hints at a developing western narrative on the failed coup in Turkey?
“The fact the Guardian is giving a sympathetic ear to Fethullah Gülen, the man Turkish president Erdogan alleges was behind the failed coup, could be a hint at some of the complex realities and conflicting loyalties here. As indeed can the media’s sudden and renewed discovery of the Erdogan government’s long history of brutality, which is also being freshly aired by the BBC.
The Guardian article even suggests the coup may have been staged by Erdogan to increase his own popularity. Again this is interesting. In general it’s only regimes we’re being invited to disapprove of or demonise that are accused of shady dealings and false flags. Any suggestion that a friendly nation could stage a fake coup would usually be greeted with cries of “conspiracy theory.”
So it looks as if Erdogan is in an ambiguous position with his masters in Washington right now. A development that may not be entirely unconnected with Erdogan’s recent overtures of conciliation toward Russia.
Erdogan is demanding Gülen’s extradition, and the US is requesting evidence of the latter’s guilt before considering its position, whatever that will turn out to mean. And the Incirlik air base is apparently still intermittently being closed for use by the Pentagon, for reasons that remain unclear.
Time will no doubt reveal more. But we can at least detect the broad strokes of an emerging narrative. Erdogan’s brutality is no longer inadmissible in the neoliberal media. And Gülen is being sold to us as a more acceptable potential alternative.
Let’s see how this develops.”
https://off-guardian.org/2016/07/16/hints-at-a-developing-western-narrative-on-the-failed-coup-in-turkey/
jjhman on Sat, 16th Jul 2016 7:52 pm
So the conclusions I draw form this mess are:
-Throwing a tarp over a tank is the absoluty most clever, peaceful way to stop one. If you have ever stood near a moving tank you would appreciate how brave those guys are. Stand in front of on? Help!
-Who needs guns Mr. NRA when you have a conscription army? Those soldiers could have blasted their way through any of those crowds but they would not shoot at innocent, patriotic civilians in their own country.
-The people beating the surrendered soldiers were cowards.
-Erdogan is still a creep. Turkey was created by the yourn Turks to be a modern, western civilization. Erdogan is slowly taking it back to the middle ages.
-I swear there are people on this site who would blame western civilization for a meteor strike. And apparently don’t believe any news sources that have reporters.
There are a lot of possibilities regarding who the plotters were communicating with, if anyone outside of their own, Turkish, circle. One thing that the “lame-stream media” absolutly has right: things are going to get less democratic in Turkey very soon. Also there is going to be a confrontation with the US regarding Fethullah Gulen.
Apneaman on Sat, 16th Jul 2016 8:44 pm
Coup Against Wannabe-Sultan Failed – Beware The Aftermath
http://www.moonofalabama.org/
Go Speed Racer on Sat, 16th Jul 2016 8:48 pm
For news like this, the challenge is to figure out who are the bad guys, and who are the good guys. The media is so twisted and biased, they are not usually much help to figure out what’s going on.
The above article makes it look like, evil bad rebellion was defeated by wonderful loyal citizens dancing in the streets.
What I heard so far, is the president made himself into a dictator who wants to put in sharia law and and democracy. If so, the defeated coup l
was the good guys.
Go Speed Racer on Sat, 16th Jul 2016 8:59 pm
Fuckin shitty iPhone, worst touch key pad on the planet. No wonder the terrorist drove a truck thru the crowd, hated his iPhone that’s why.
And Peak Oil website won’t let you edit a post, so I guess that’s what to put onto the epitaph of civilization.
I heard the Turk President made himself into a dictator and now wants dictatorship and end democracy. If so, the coup was the good guys, but the media just told you the coup was the bad guys.
So overthrow our manipulative, terrorist loving Hillary-owned media.
Apneaman on Sat, 16th Jul 2016 9:00 pm
jjhman, if you want to listen to reporters, I suggest these two veterans.
After leaving The Washington Post in 1977, Carl Bernstein spent six months looking at the relationship of the CIA and the press during the Cold War years. His 25,000-word cover story, published in Rolling Stone on October 20, 1977, is reprinted below.
THE CIA AND THE MEDIA
How Americas Most Powerful News Media Worked Hand in Glove with the Central Intelligence Agency and Why the Church Committee Covered It Up
BY CARL BERNSTEIN
http://www.carlbernstein.com/magazine_cia_and_media.php
‘Bought Journalism’: German bestseller reveals CIA pay Western media for spin & bias
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0I5BZCcURa4
Editor of Major German Newspaper Says He Planted Stories for the CIA
“ecoming the first credentialed, well-known media insider to step forward and state publicly that he was secretly a “propagandist,” an editor of a major German daily has said that he personally planted stories for the CIA.
Saying he believes a medical condition gives him only a few years to live, and that he is filled with remorse, Dr. Udo Ulfkotte, the editor of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, one of Germany’s largest newspapers, said in an interview that he accepted news stories written and given to him by the CIA and published them under his own name. Ulfkotte said the aim of much of the deception was to drive nations toward war.
Dr. Ulfkotte says the corruption of journalists and major news outlets by the CIA is routine, accepted, and widespread in the western media, and that journalists who do not comply either cannot get jobs at any news organization, or find their careers cut short.
Dr. Ulfkotte is the author of a book currently available only in German, “Bought Journalists” (Kopp 2014.) Aged 55, he was also once an advisor to the government of German Chancellor Helmet Kohl.”
http://www.globalresearch.ca/editor-of-major-german-newspaper-says-he-planted-stories-for-the-cia/5429324
Anonymous on Sat, 16th Jul 2016 9:13 pm
I dont see turkey getting close to Russia, or at least any closer than they have been in recent decades. They were ‘close’ before the uS and their turkish ape puppets shot down that Russian Jet. The idea that erdo was thinking bolting to the ‘wrong’ side, and taking turkey with him, that is to say, Russia, is not very credible. The uS does have a long tradition of dumping puppets if they become too much of a PR headache to manage any longer however. Not clear if that is the case here either. What is not clear, is who was behind the ‘coup’, their identities and motives. Im sure more will be revealed as time passes, but for now, expect a lot of hot air from the western prestitutes and lackeys like Obomber, shillary and so on, but nothing really revealing.
Apneaman on Sat, 16th Jul 2016 9:30 pm
jjhman, yeah it’s just so baffling why anyone would ever suspect western involvement when TSHTF in brown people countries. Also, I just can’t think of any good reason why
bosporus straitsempires now or since the beginning of history would be interested in that particular geographical region.A Brief History of U.S. Interventions:
1945 to the Present
by William Blum
Z magazine , June 1999
“The engine of American foreign policy has been fueled not by a devotion to any kind of morality, but rather by the necessity to serve other imperatives, which can be summarized as follows:
* making the world safe for American corporations;
* enhancing the financial statements of defense contractors at home who have contributed generously to members of congress;
* preventing the rise of any society that might serve as a successful example of an alternative to the capitalist model;
* extending political and economic hegemony over as wide an area as possible, as befits a “great power.”
This in the name of fighting a supposed moral crusade against what cold warriors convinced themselves, and the American people, was the existence of an evil International Communist Conspiracy, which in fact never existed, evil or not.
The United States carried out extremely serious interventions into more than 70 nations in this period.”
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Blum/US_Interventions_WBlumZ.html
Britain’s 100 years of conflict
British forces are set to withdraw from Afghanistan by the end of 2014. If 2015 is a year of peace for the UK, it will be the first for at least 100 years. Here the Guardian charts every conflict in which British forces have engaged since 1914
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-interactive/2014/feb/11/britain-100-years-of-conflict
France’s Military Is All Over Africa
http://www.businessinsider.com/frances-military-is-all-over-africa-2015-1
onlooker on Sat, 16th Jul 2016 9:47 pm
You could be right Anon. This could just be a case of Erdo being a bit too much of an tyrant and siding with Islam a bit too much, so that the more liberal and progressive elements in Turkey did not appreciate that.
onlooker on Sat, 16th Jul 2016 9:53 pm
That last reason you posted AP now supersedes all the others as the reason the US is in the ME. We need and want that Oil to extend our economic and thus our political hegemony. And of course in a more primitive world to extend our military hegemony as the military will be needed ever more in the new world we are entering into and have entered. Just a short interlude though on the way down the climatic inferno all the planet is headed for.
Apneaman on Sat, 16th Jul 2016 10:18 pm
onlooker, it’s what empires do. Modern citizens of empire just love to pretend they are nothing of the sort, unlike say the Mongols or Romans, who, if accused of being a brutal empire would simply say – Duh of course we’re a fucking empire, it us or them. Moderns want all the spoils, but need bunk justifications and rationalizations (democracy, freedom, bla bla bla) and to be thanked and loved as well. The only difference between then and now is at least yesteryears great conquers told the truth of it.
“The greatest happiness is to vanquish your enemies, to chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth, to see those dear to them bathed in tears, to clasp to your bosom their wives and daughters.”
― Genghis Khan
Tom on Sun, 17th Jul 2016 3:36 am
That’s one stupid coup
Brent on Sun, 17th Jul 2016 4:57 am
The coup was so stupid that it can’t be ruled out that it was staged for the purpose of Erdogan consolidating power. Nobody attempted to arrest Erdogan or bomb his palace. False flag.
Davy on Sun, 17th Jul 2016 6:24 am
Likely a staged coup with all the trappings of a purge and a move on an adversary.
“Erdogan’s Arch-Enemy Accuses Turkish President Of Staging Coup, Compares Him To Hitler”
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-07-16/erdogans-arch-enemy-accuses-turkish-president-staging-coup-compares-him-hitler
If you are wondering about Erdogan’s intentions then look at his living arrangements. One can always spot a dictator by the home he lives in.
“Turkey President Erdogan’s palace costs to soar”
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-30061107
The project has also been lambasted by the political opposition, which pointed out that the monthly electricity bill alone – likely to be footed by the taxpayer – will reach £200,000 ($313,000).
Go Speed Racer on Sun, 17th Jul 2016 8:13 am
The coup chickened out.
So it was a chicken coup.
:O)
Brent on Sun, 17th Jul 2016 9:50 am
Erdogan uses the occasion to come to the aid of his IS buddies in Syria and Iraq as well in that he surrounded the Incirlik airbase, used by the Americans. Turkey simply switched off electricity and demands that the US will handover Gullen, who Erdogan accuses to be behind the coup. Not that the Americans are very effective in fighting the monster they themselves created in an attempt to mimic the sequence of events in Afghanistan, when they used the Taliban to fight the Soviets. But the Americans at least have to pretend they are fighting IS. No longer. Now that Erdogan mended relations with Russia, it looks as if Turkey can afford to distance itself from the West a little. Meanwhile the speaker of parliament has called for an Islamic constitution that should replace the secular one. That is what is really going on: the intention to create an Islamic fundamentalist state after the example of Iran. The fake coup was an important milestone in achieving that aim.
Brent on Sun, 17th Jul 2016 10:04 am
The coup was celebrated by the Syrians who thought that a secular Turkish military government would stop interferering in Syria. That party didn’t last too long. Nevertheless, according to news coming in today, it appears that Aleppo is now completely surrounded by government forces and that the fall of that city is merely a matter of time.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-3694190/Rebel-held-areas-Syrias-Aleppo-fully-besieged.html
Now that it becomes ever more impossible for the US to use jihadists for its own geopolitical aims, it looks as if the days of IS are numbered, both in Syria and Iraq. Both countries could very well become part of the Iranian sphere of influence. This would mean a total defeat of western policies since 2003. The wine will be tasting excellent in Moscow and Beijing.
Anonymous on Sun, 17th Jul 2016 1:16 pm
Yes, strange how no one, afaik, ever materialized to ‘lead’ the coup. If you are going to have a coup, it often helps to have someone, or some group, appear to be in ‘charge’. It also looks as if only 1/2 hearted attempts to control turkish media were made, and again, no one in ‘charge’. Whoever was leading this made no demands, or tried to explain what their goals were. It could well be that statements and demands were made, but uS/western propaganda shut them down, difficult to say.
Either way, the whole event is either suspicious, or alternately, the most amateurish and poorly conceived coup attempt ever. As things look, uS puppet ERDO is using the ‘coup’, real or no, as an excuse to crack down hard on his opponents.
joe on Mon, 18th Jul 2016 1:35 am
The current events are concerning. The calculus is complex, but we have the aid of history. Turkey is full of coups. The people of Turkey have long stood by the man who gives bread, rather than any other thing. Attaturk belived that Islam had caused the Ottomans to fail because the institutions of Islam then were old and unchanged and of no use. It was true then, but not so much now. Political Islam today is allot like the Protestant revolution was in Europe. It fights corruption ij both the temporal and spiritual sense, it focuses on the individuals role in all aspects of their life and their duty to the community. An Islamist today with his puritanism and focus on religion would have fit in well on the Mayflower. The politics of the situation is complex, and make no mistake, Erdogan is ‘elected’ in the same sense that Putin is. Erdogan is a Saddam Hussein or Assad in waiting, nothing more. But the difference is that he means to autocratically rule the worlds wealthiest muslim country. Lets look at the benefits of Islamist rule. In 14 years of Erdogan and his Muslim Brotherhood friends we have seen the rise of ISIS the destruction of democracy in Turkey, the flooding of EU with war refugees the political destruction of peace deals with the secular kurdish people leading to open war, the destruction of tourism, the rise of human trafficking to Syria, the phenomenon of global muslims using Turkey as a landing pad to go and fight jihad, then freely return home, wholesale flipfloping in relations with all its neighbours and Russia, the tearing up of its EU membership prospects (now an embarrassing open secret to Germany). Now with this last ditch coup effort by men who probably tried to save Turkey, Erdogan will gut his constitution, shoot or drive off all his rivals leaving him alone with the same snakes that put him in power fighting it out for the top job. Hmmm, wonder why Attaturk was so against Islam in politics, hmmm. Under the pretext of ‘securing democracy’ for which the millions of men in Turkey foolishly defended, their children will grow up in a country lurching towards Isisim, where the burka will be the symbol of religious freedom forced on women and held up as prized baby factories and quietly sent back into the kitchen and told to shut up. The victory over ISIS will be pyrrhic because the ideology just got a new home. Watch this space.