Posted on 07/16/2016 11:02:38 AM PDT by Rummyfan
Izmir, Turkey -- It's a done deal: the military coup has failed. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his AK Parti remain in power and vow to take revenge against those behind the coup.
Or, perhaps better said: against those they say are behind it.
Now that the coup has clearly failed, we can conclude that this must have been the most incompetent attempted takeover in Turkey's troubled history. When part of the military launched their offensive last night (Turkish time), I immediately checked news channels supporting President Erdogan. Surprisingly, none of them were taken over. The only broadcaster that was taken over was TRT Haber, the state news channel. But NTV and other channels supporting Erdogan were left alone.
That was remarkable, but what struck me even more was the fact that these channels -- especially NTV -- were able to talk to the president and the prime minister. That's strange, to put it mildly. Normally, when the military stages a coup, the civilian rulers are among the first to be arrested. After all, as long as the country's civilian leadership are free, they can tell forces supportive of them what to do... and they can even tell the people to rise up against the coup.
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And maybe that resistance was anticipated and exploited so as to eliminate all political opposition and consolidate Erdogan's totalitarian radical Islamist rule.
You can hear it in the propaganda afterwards, which was prepared before, and in the immediate moves the gov is taking. 100%. Totally. Preplanned.
Oh, how Obama wishes to live in a country where he could get away with it ... and maybe he does. We'll see.
I’m leaning towards the false flag coup. You take a group of military that are dissatisfied with Erdogan and fake a lot of support and then stand back. A couple thousand deaths are nothing to Erdogan and his ilk. Erdogan will become a dictator now.
Seems like a plot out of Star Wars.... Order 66.
Really makes you wonder...they just left the state run media go so it could counter the coup attempt? The person they were trying to overthrow and his associates just allowed to continue freely roaming around when it was launched and freely get on TV and send out counter messages?
Are we certain a coup d’état ever occurred or was it an attempt to flush out Turky freedom lovers so the Islamists could arrest and kill them.
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