07-16-2016, 03:59 PM
The entire coup smells of a staged play.
Making up with Putin and Israel just before, and cleaning up this way potential external threats sets the stage for this piece.
When Erdogan came to power first time, he did something very similar, staged a pretense of a conspiracy and beheaded the Army, falsely accusing the top 300 officers. Even though a decade later they are getting to clear their name, now they are history, just a bunch of old men and has beens.
The only threat to Erdogan was his old ally, Gulen, and this false coup is a pretext to purge perceived Gulen allies and anybody else that might look critically at Erdogan's regime.....
Making up with Putin and Israel just before, and cleaning up this way potential external threats sets the stage for this piece.
When Erdogan came to power first time, he did something very similar, staged a pretense of a conspiracy and beheaded the Army, falsely accusing the top 300 officers. Even though a decade later they are getting to clear their name, now they are history, just a bunch of old men and has beens.
The only threat to Erdogan was his old ally, Gulen, and this false coup is a pretext to purge perceived Gulen allies and anybody else that might look critically at Erdogan's regime.....