“False flag has been tossed around since the beginning of this”
A lot of twitter posters are theorizing that this was a false flag operation for Erdogan to seize more power, like the Riechstag Fire.
Erdogan does seem to have rekindled the Kurdish conflict just to regain power after his party lost their Majority in last June’s elections (successfully). He is also widely speculated to have his intel services pop some chemical weapons in Syria a few years back - attempting to pin responsibility on Assad, and draw the US into the Syrian War (unsuccessfully).
So while I wouldn’t put it past him to attempt it, I doubt his ability to pull it off at this scale.
Stratfor seems to think that the coup plotters were Gulenists, and that is why most senior brass did not support the coup.
Regardless of how the coup came about, Erdogan will seek to consolidate more power from it.
I’ve only read a few comments this morning, but so far, I am veering towards false flag. So much odd stuff, such an incredible and short lived failure. The possibility of Gulenists is also there.
At any rate, now a lot of anti-Erdog have been flushed from the military, judges replaced, and who knows how bad it will get now.
I thought it telling (could be wrong) that 0bunghole/henchpeeps instantly made such big support for Erdog; as though they knew it wouldn’t work.
Many people here know a lot more than I do so I will read on.