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.
We will probably never know how the coup came about.
It is possible that the Obama admin colluded with Erdogan to lead on coup plotters, to draw them out for elimination, and as a pretext for seizing more power by Erdogan.
If so, it would just be one more example of Obama spiking the cannons before leaving office, denying future administrations the tools of US influence that have been built up over generations (like the total exposure of the NSA’s capabilities, and turning the Internet’s ICAAN over to international management, gutting the military, etc.). It seemed that the admin coming out in support of Erdogan was also a turning point in the coup.
I really have no indication that this was the case, but I would not expect to have indications, if it were true.