Turkey Attempted Military Coup

[CharlesHarris]

The Turkish military traditionally has been fiercely secular and in 1997 quickly overthrew an attempt to empower an Islamic government, so my take is that this is probably good for long term stability.

As usually happens, early reports on such things are unreliable, so it is best to let the smoke clear and see whether there is a new sheriff in town or if the old order has been maintained on Monday. Anything else at this point is speculation. As is their custom the Turkish military is trying to hold the publicity lid on.

This is what they do. The Turks are not real big on political correctness, but are probably the most dependable troops in NATO and they have second biggest Army in NATO next to the US.

I'm not taking any bets on this one, as nothing in this part of the world is certain.

[Mortblanc]

Turkey borders Syria, Iraq and the Soviet Union. They are beset with instability in their society and have no room for messing about with feel good philosophy. The military is the most stable platform they have to operate with, but this coup is not the "overthrow" publicized at this point.

Very disorganized and led by a low level "legal advisor" to a minister, who is only a .Col. Neither the Air force or the Navy is supporting the coup and only a small faction of the Army so far.

At least that is the news I am getting here on Friday night.

But even if unsuccessful it will give the regular forces time to make arrests, clear the streets and make a lot of decenters and suspected terrorists evaporate as well as giving TPTB a chance to sort things out while declaring Martial Law and ignoring the politically correct to insure some continued stability.

[harrypalmer]

Flash in the pan thankfully.

[Mortblanc]

Hardly a flash in the pan.

To the contrary, it went exactly as planned.

The president was out of town in a safe haven inside the country, Coup crushed, 6,000 arrested, officer corps purged, clamp down on media.

Doing this without a "coup" to crush would have been unacceptable to the western world.

Almost a perfect example of the false flag situation addressed in another thread right now.

[CharlesHarris]

Now to wait and see of Obama will honor Turkey's extradition request for the exiled cleric in PA. Then when the "traitors" receive the "most severe" punishment how many will be shot versus imprisoned. Turkish jails are certainly not "Club Fed" where Martha Stewart was exiled to write her cook books and conduct cooking classes for the tatoodd ladies....

[CharlesHarris]

[CharlesHarris]

[harrypalmer]

Good diatribe CH

[cephalopod]

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!

[CharlesHarris]