enhanced_deficit
08-06-2016, 04:30 AM
This should be refuted by officials immediately before it moves into the court of public opinion:
Was the U.S. behind a failed coup? Many Turks think so.
Demonstrators wave Turkish and Turkish Cypriot flags during a rally in support of President Recep Tayyip Erodgan in the breakaway Turkish Cypriot half of the capital Nicosia on Friday, Aug. 5, 2016. (Philippos Christou/AP)
By Ishaan Tharoor August 6 at 4:00 AM
ISTANBUL — Amid a sea of Turkish flags and the blare of loudspeakers, Nazmi Kaya beamed with pride. The 51-year-old truck driver had brought his whole family back to the “motherland,” as he put it, from their home in Frankfurt, Germany, to experience the chaotic, emotional aftermath of the July 15 coup attempt.
They stood in the city’s central Taksim Square, the site of nightly vigils marking the successful defeat of a mutinous army faction. Kaya said the courageous protests who confronted the coup plotters’ tanks were unlike anything seen “anywhere else in the world.”
And he also knows who’s to blame.
“We believe the United States had a full idea of what was happening,” he said. “The CIA was going to benefit.”
Kaya’s certainty about American perfidy in the coup plot seems widespread in Turkey. Right-wing and pro-government media outlets have repeatedly accused the United States of being somehow involved in the putsch, which saw rebel soldiers turn on the state, kill civilians and bomb the country’s legislature in an unsuccessful bid to oust President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Turkish officials pin the blame on Fethullah Gulen (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/turkeys-purge-marks-endgame-in-islamist-civil-war/2016/08/04/4d0a6128-5811-11e6-82ea-8af882a4d163_story.html), a septuagenarian imam who lives in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania and whose followers, say officials in Ankara, infiltrated the military and other institutions of state and were biding their time for years before moving against the elected government.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/was-the-us-behind-a-failed-coup-many-turks-think-so/2016/08/05/399dd6f4-5a61-11e6-8b48-0cb344221131_story.html
Not a fan of DGP but what would his masters gain by regime change in Turkey in the middle of US supported regime change war in Syria?
Was the U.S. behind a failed coup? Many Turks think so.
Demonstrators wave Turkish and Turkish Cypriot flags during a rally in support of President Recep Tayyip Erodgan in the breakaway Turkish Cypriot half of the capital Nicosia on Friday, Aug. 5, 2016. (Philippos Christou/AP)
By Ishaan Tharoor August 6 at 4:00 AM
ISTANBUL — Amid a sea of Turkish flags and the blare of loudspeakers, Nazmi Kaya beamed with pride. The 51-year-old truck driver had brought his whole family back to the “motherland,” as he put it, from their home in Frankfurt, Germany, to experience the chaotic, emotional aftermath of the July 15 coup attempt.
They stood in the city’s central Taksim Square, the site of nightly vigils marking the successful defeat of a mutinous army faction. Kaya said the courageous protests who confronted the coup plotters’ tanks were unlike anything seen “anywhere else in the world.”
And he also knows who’s to blame.
“We believe the United States had a full idea of what was happening,” he said. “The CIA was going to benefit.”
Kaya’s certainty about American perfidy in the coup plot seems widespread in Turkey. Right-wing and pro-government media outlets have repeatedly accused the United States of being somehow involved in the putsch, which saw rebel soldiers turn on the state, kill civilians and bomb the country’s legislature in an unsuccessful bid to oust President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Turkish officials pin the blame on Fethullah Gulen (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/turkeys-purge-marks-endgame-in-islamist-civil-war/2016/08/04/4d0a6128-5811-11e6-82ea-8af882a4d163_story.html), a septuagenarian imam who lives in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania and whose followers, say officials in Ankara, infiltrated the military and other institutions of state and were biding their time for years before moving against the elected government.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/was-the-us-behind-a-failed-coup-many-turks-think-so/2016/08/05/399dd6f4-5a61-11e6-8b48-0cb344221131_story.html
Not a fan of DGP but what would his masters gain by regime change in Turkey in the middle of US supported regime change war in Syria?