Posted on 07/16/2016 3:41:57 PM PDT by SunStar
A US-based Turkish cleric accused of plotting a coup to overthrow the Ankara government has claimed President Recep Erdogan staged the rebellion himself to justify a major clampdown on opposition forces.
Fethullah Gulen, who was a former key ally of Erdogan has been blamed by the politician of using his contacts to develop a 'parallel structure' to overthrow the state.
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ERDOGAN.... just front-running the Zero on style and technique, IMHO.
Sorry Doc, this is way beyond whether Gulen is a decent guy or truthful, it's about Obama mercing out the US Military to the Caliphate through NATO.
heard
Doesn't mean that it was legit.
I think some are believing Gulen was trying to help secular Turkey and are therefore opposed to handing him over to Erdogan.
Ahmet Sik's book, “The Army of the Imam.” "It chronicles how the followers of the imam, Fethullah Gulen, have proliferated within the police and the judiciary, working behind the scenes to become one of Turkey’s most powerful political forces — and, he contends, one of its most ruthless, smearing opponents and silencing dissenters." It is not secularism.
That is what I've believed. Gulen helped Erdogan. However Gulen and Erdogan have had a falling out lately. Who's in charge? argument.
I have not read the book but I have read articles like this one from several years ago.
A very plausible theory. How did Erdogan have the list of judges to sack so fast?
Enquiring minds....
I read elsewhere that when the soldiers in tanks on bridge in Istanbul came out of the tanks and were set upon by thugs, the soldiers said it was an exercise, or they thought it was an exercise.
It’s possible that this so-called coup was orchestrated by Erdogan and to flush out all those who “opposed” him. If this was a legit coup, it wouldn’t had been this half-assed.
Grampa Dave and others have lots of info on Gulen. I don’t have time to copy anything at the moment (copmuter problems) but Gulen is a super bad guy, if he was in power, he’d be as bad as Erdogan.
Grampa, maybe you can help out?
Yes, I said our Terrorist in Chief was taking notes. He’s staging something for the near future.
Not there and have not been for years, yet the rumor persists but it really just FUD for public comsumption.
On February 27, 1933, the German Reichstag burned down due to an arson. This was Adolf Hitler’s moment to seize and extend a much more powerful grip on the nation, as they had found their scapegoat, supposedly a Communist.
Later examination of the events leading up to the fire, though, indicated it was a “false flag” incident created for just the purpose of consolidation of power. Hitler’s own goons did the arson.
Same with Erdogan. A few of the Turkish Army members were lured into forming a plot, and given some disinformation, they staged an abortive coup. Unprepared for what was about to happen to them, they walked into a trap of Erdogan’s making, and it made a perfect excuse for a crackdown on the less politically reliable members of the Turkish military. Better than a mass firing, as the disaffected officers would then have gone into exile and plotted a REAL coup.
If you are going to take a shot at the king, you had better to Hell not miss.
A genuine coup would have decapitated the leadership as the first step.
Whether they were killed or jailed.
Hope O didn’t do anything to change that
with jets flying low over the city shooting down helicopters and he just flies in , D’oh
False flag coup engineered by Erdogan ... note how he immediately had 2,400 constitutional judges arrested (a real pain in his side) obstructing his Islamic dictatorial takeover of the country. A few hundred dead in a false flag is minor collateral damage.
and the people(LOL) in the street knew right where to go
"...2) Legit - Erdogan’s hotel room was bombed, but Erdogan was not in it. " - Ray76
Odd there are no photos of this hotel after the alleged bombing. Here's what is reported thus far:
ANKARA (AFP, REUTERS) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday (July 16) that his hotel on Turkey's Aegean coast was bombed after he left, hours after the armed forces attempted to overthrow him.
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Erdogan, who had been holidaying on the southwest coast when the coup was launched, flew into Istanbul before dawn on Saturday and told thousands of flag-waving supporters at the airport that the government remained at the helm. A polarising figure whose Islamist-rooted ideology lies at odds with supporters of modern Turkey's secular principles, Erdogan said the plotters had tried to attack him in the resort town of Marmaris. "They bombed places I had departed from right after I was gone," he said. "They probably thought we were still there."************** Chaos Unfolds As Attempted Military Coup D'Etat Grips Turkey [UPDATING]
A bomb destroyed the Marmaris hotel he was vacationing in, on the Aegean coast, just after he left, Erdogan is reported to have said from his press conference at Istanbul’s main airport.***************
"He was staying at the Grand Yazici Marmaris Hotel that after midnight Saturday was attacked with heavy weapons from land and helicopters, according to a report by the state-run Anadolu news agency.
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0856 – Sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, say pro-coup soldiers, who tried to attack Grand Yazici Marmaris Hotel in the southwestern city of Muğla, have fled the area. Erdogan had left the hotel hours earlier.
WHERE ARE THE PHOTOS CONFIRMING THE GRAND YAZICI MARMARIS HOTEL WAS BOMBED &/or DESTROYED???
See “The Gulen Movement: Turkey’s Islamic Supremacist Cult and its Contributions to the Civilization Jihad”
at http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/civilization-jihad-reader-series/
and see
https://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Gulen_Final.pdf
also
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3370180/posts
Yeah. I thought of that after posting.
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