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It is past time for direct action against Erdogan. It will have to be covert and quick because the US and the EU will back the “official” government. The Turkish military seems to be completely neutered, so it will probably fall to others to stop the palace coup or Turkey will become another Islamist dictatorship and a terrorist state where all the internal opposition will simply be killed or jailed indefinitely.

On previous occasions when the government has veered way off course, once in a Communist direction and once before in an Islamist direction the military has waited until it seemed that the system emplaced by Ataturk was finished and then has acted to remove the malefactors and put the system back on course. The Western governments have been highly scandalized by the illegal (in Western eyes) military seizures of power and wagged Western fingers at Turkiye while the military has cleaned house and then, when the rats have all been neutralized, has stepped back into its normal role and allowed the Republic to carry on as the Turkish Constitution prescribes. The West cannot accept that the Army has a Constitutional and is written into the Constitution as the Defenders of the Republic. That clause would not be there if the army was to simply be the defense against outside aggressors.
By waiting until the very last second to act, the Army has no problem identifying all the rats and doesn't leave some uncovered.