Attempted Coup In Turkey

[Belsnickel]

(07-16-2016, 05:58 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Should we extradite the supposed Master-Mind?

https://www.yahoo.com/news/obama-parties-turkey-support-erdogan-govt-074352507--politics.html?ref=gs

So, what is interesting here is that it doesn't make sense for him to have been behind this. It isn't his style and it is out of character for his supporters, a least from the geopolitical discussions I have been reading. Especially since the call was for a secular state which is not the hallmark of Gulen, he is just more moderate than Erdogan. Their animosity is only three years old and is the result of the disapproval of Erdogan's authoritarian power grabs, from what I amd given to understand.

There have been two prevailing thoughts on what occurred in what I have been reading. The first, more unlikely, situation is that Erdogan did this himself to gain more power. The only person benefiting from this is him as he is using it to grab more power (the President in Turkey is more ceremonial than anything and he has been changing that) and clear out any dissidents in the government that were loyal to the state but not to him.

The other, more likely scenario is that remaining state loyalists in the military did this and Erdogan is being opportunistic in the aftermath. He has been weeding out state loyalists in the military for some time now, from top to bottom. The military has long thought itself the protector of the secular state in Turkey, this previous coups. As of late, however, Erdogan loyalists have been put in positions of power, including the top brass. The coup was doomed to fail without the support of top officers. So, many are seeing ths as a last ditch effort by state loyalist forces to return the state to a secular government.

Whatever happened, it seems clear that Erdogan is attempting to become a new Ottoman Emperor.