Posted on 07/15/2016 12:58:47 PM PDT by winoneforthegipper
He never left Turkish air space. There was, however, some delay before he landed at Ataturk.
Maybe he needed to wait for his supporters to get the tanks off the runway.
Hmmm....wonder how other braches of the military are going to respond. Just wait for Edgrons goons to come arrest them?
That was all kinda weird. There had to be a couple hundred air strips just in Turkey.
No signs of even a struggle.
I wonder how any news at all is getting out of Turkey. I’m sure we’re only getting a small bit of it. I’m sick at heart about this.
I'm sure that was the plan while they were circling.
I mean, if his supporters can make Ataturk safe before he runs out of fuel, then that's where he goes (which is what happened). Otherwise, he lands at some friendly air field, refuels, and figures out what to do next.
The plotters' mistake was not to grab him at his vacation spot (Marmaris, on the Mediterranean). Erdogan should have been the first outsider to learn of the coup, at gun point or from virgin #1.
Conflict News (@Conflicts)
7/16/16, 1:19 AM
UPDATE: Fighting still being reported at military HQ in #Ankara #Turkey -
Government saying rebels have no more fighter jets but still some helicopters
sounds like the last holdout for the rebels?
government forces currently control Turkey’s military headquarters, a senior Turkish official told Reuters, adding that small groups of soldiers backing the coup attempt are still resisting and control several military helicopters.
Yep. Now it’s just mopping up.
BREAKING: Army chief General Hulusi Akar rescued after being held hostage by coup soldiers, taken to secure location - @BNONews
DAILY SABAH @DailySabah 7m7 minutes ago
BREAKING — Chief of Staff Hulusi Akar rescued to safety from pro-coup soldiers at Akıncılar Air Base in Ankara
ilhan tanir @WashingtonPoint 7m7 minutes ago
ilhan tanir Retweeted S. Rifai
#Unconfirmed but widely reported: Colonel Kose was the leader of the coup. Conflict News @Conflicts 3m3 minutes ago
BREAKING: Turkish Presidency Secretary-General Fahri Kasirga rescued after being kidnapped by coup soldiers - @BNONews
Three reasons why ‘the coup appears to have failed’
Gulnur Aybet, head of the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the Centre for Security Studies at Bahcesehir University in Istanbul, tells the BBC World Service that the reasons for the coup’s apparent failure are:
A relatively low number of solders took part
Senior commanders were outspoken in condemning it
People came out onto the streets to oppose it
Read a report that his vacation room or suite was bombed or they attempted a bombing, but he was not there.
Erdogan has had twelve years in power to prepare for a possible coup, after decades of the Turkish military repeatedly conducting coups and suppressing islamists.
He earlier pre-emptively purged the military leadership with a a fraud (memos dated years before the version of windows used to create them) in the so-called sledgehammer case.
You seem convinced it would be unthinkable for him to establish his own equivalent to the Fedayeen Saddam, the Iranian basijis? In fact he has been extraordinarily active in cultivating a variety of paramilitaries (see Syria).
I guess that you didn’t watch the early crowds chanting in Arabic (Y’allah, Bismullah, Allahu Akhbar), while gesturing with the Shahada symbol.
Now Erdogan is going to go full Islamcrazy. And many people will die and suffer.
Thanks for the background info.
Erdogan was staying at a hotel. His room was bombed. He wasn’t in it.
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