I don’t think there’s any amount of pleading that is going to change the fact that Ataturk’s Westernized, forward-thinking Turkey is gone forever, and in it’s place is a Turkey increasingly hostile to the West and under the control of an Islamist strongman. We would have been well-advised to support the Turkish military in it’s coup attempt, but of course that would have been unthinkable for Obama.
Always before if the Turk military decided it was time for a coup. It happened and was successful.
This time did not and that is the best explanation about why this was a Faux Coup. Erdogan used this to make himself dictator.
All true.
But I don’t think it was a “real Coup”, I believe it was a “Faux” Coup. It would not surprise me if Brennan helped Erdogan. Birds of a feather, Islamists.
If the Kemalists had intended to have a coup, it would have succeeded.
But the Kemalist are in practice not that different from the Islamists. Some elements of them are, and they certainly demonstrated that in Istanbul recently. Peacefully, for now.
Qatar? Iran? Unknown pieces and I suspect there is more connected through the MB.