Turkey Attempted Military Coup

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It has long been known that Erdogan's greatest ambition is the rebirth of the Ottoman empire with him as the Sultan. It seems strange that the recent attack on Attaturk airport by alleged IS was noticibly lacking in the usual retribution that is generally meted out on any Khurdish action when it takes place, which begs the question was this also a flag event to prepare for the coming events.
The swift and brutal retribution of the so called rebels was clearly well planned and well executed, and it is hard to believe that this was truly a coup attempt, and not a more sinister way for Erdogan to gain even more control of his increasingly "Stalinist" state.
As a member of NATO (all be it with a great deal of reservation) on the rest of NATO members if this were a complicit ploy by him to gain total control of the country he is moving into very dangerous territory, with a huge nuclear arsenal on Syria,s border that is doubling as a base for strikes on IS, and which according to reports has already been searched by "police", (which under international convention is illegal), it really is becoming very worrying, these are not items which should fall into a budding despots hands, and make no mistake this idiot is so full of himself that he would use them.#
If as is suggested Erdogan is indeed looking to raise the Ottoman empire, his actions with regard to the refugee crisis speak volumes. With the second largest standing army in the world it should have been simple not only for Turkey to control the influx of refugees, but also to prevent the exit of IS fighters. What better way to de-stabilise a continent than to send over a million people onto their soil, they have to be fed/clothed/medical treatment, this all costs money that if(please not), this is a pre-invasion ploy would use resources that should be sent to other areas.
With Greece in such dire circumstances it would be easy for an invasion by Turkey through this door way, if a million refugees can do it, a million solidier,s would p***s it.
One thing of interest I noticed was that I watched police putting up a fence on the Serbian border, this news item was not on for long, and just caught on the edge of the shot of the fence you could see the army laying tank traps, what possible use could these be against humans they just climb over them, but perhaps the Serbian government is expecting an invasion of something altogether different!