I think Erdogan knows they won’t hand him over. So, it’s going to be played out like some poker game. He even knows that thousands of students will have to relocate or leave the country for university seats because he’s dumped enough professors that there will only be marginal seats in the fall. With them out of the country....no riots.
Brilliant play on all levels. He won’t even execute anyone, but he’ll take about it for three months and get everyone hyped up. It’s like some Latin America banana republic TV show.
What makes you think he won’t execute anyone? I’ve seen photos of rooms and a barn filled with men in their underwear, military, injuries. They’re being tortured. I saw pictures of “citizens” while the police looked on, beating, torturing and then killing soliders in Istanbul. throwing the dead bodies into the Bosporus. I saw piles of dead young soldiers, beaten and tortured to death. Heads cut off. This was the first night. I read the soliders just surrendered, and were heard to say “This is an exercise”. They had no idea what was going on.