Turkey: Coup Has Failed, Erdogan More Powerful Than Ever

PJ Media ^ | 16 July 2016 | Michael Van Der Galien

[Bernard Marx]

Maybe it wasn’t a coup. Maybe it was a purge that met resistance.

And maybe that resistance was anticipated and exploited so as to eliminate all political opposition and consolidate Erdogan's totalitarian radical Islamist rule.

[17th Miss Regt]

Mao launched the Hundred Flowers campaign (for ideological pluralism) with the saying, "Let a hundred schools of thought contend! Let a hundred flowers bloom!" After a few months he had identified his ideological opponents and then cracked down on them and tossed them into the laogai system. Maybe Ergodan is doing the same thing.

[tinyowl]

Staged.

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.

[RetiredTexasVet]

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.

[dragonblustar]

Seems like a plot out of Star Wars.... Order 66.

[Republican Wildcat]

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?

[Nuc 1.1]

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.