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.
Someone sat down and looked at a lot of the pictures used by state media on Saturday. I think it was a Brit sight. Then they checked and found at least six photos which weren’t from Fri or Sat, but two and three years prior. The photo of the Turk soldier with the head deal....that was from Syria.
I think a lot of this was orchestrated and planned out. You don’t come up with 50,000 names of university folks or prosecutors in a single day. That list was being built months ago.
A lot of this is planned out. For example, with the 15,000 professors or instructors gone...how will you run the fall semester coming up? Answer, marginally if you do run it. So thousands of these students will evaluate going elsewhere for college....outside of Turkey....maybe even the US. With them gone, they won’t riot.
Even for Incirlik, they will keep the power off for several weeks and try to hint it’s tied to getting the nut from Pennsylvania back. They don’t care if he comes back or not....it’s showing power in the hands of Erdogan.
He’ll even screw with the EU now because he knows they won’t give him entry into the EU or the free-visa deal.
The only card on the table which would really flip the game over is for the EU to declare Turkey a dangerous place and stop tourism (40-to-50 million tourists a year, and half from the EU). That would really hurt their economy.