01-08-2016, 09:57 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-08-2016, 10:36 PM by Drew Phipps.)
Here's an alternative explanation offered by an anti-Turkish government journalist:
http://www.businessinsider.com/why-turke...led-2016-7
Under this explanation, the US and Gulen are simply convenient scapegoats for Erdogan to use to justify a domestic crackdown.
One final point, and I'm done talking about this until new real evidence comes to light: Erdogan took to the skies in a Gulfstream jet while the coup was ongoing. It was tracked by radar, the flight is apparently visible on flight tracker websites. After all the suspicious plane crashes over the years that might, or might not, have been related to some military/intelligence activity, are we to think that the US MIC has lost its nerve, or its capability, to down a civilian plane?
Quote: A well-known antigovernment Turkish journalist took to Twitter on Saturday to describe a related, yet more immediate, incident that led the officers to mobilize. In a string of tweets in Turkish translated by Ragip Soylu, a journalist for the pro-government newspaper Daily Sabah Ahmet Sik, citing security sources, said Turkey's prosecutor had decided to arrest the plotters for an alleged conspiracy they were planning against other officers to get higher ranks in the military. According to Sik, the coup was planned for a later date perhaps just before the August military purge but the prosecutor's decision to arrest them scared them into acting more quickly.
Indeed, Erdemir noted that the coup plotters might have been "forced to act prematurely" if an early wave of arrests was being planned for mid-July.
http://www.businessinsider.com/why-turke...led-2016-7
Under this explanation, the US and Gulen are simply convenient scapegoats for Erdogan to use to justify a domestic crackdown.
One final point, and I'm done talking about this until new real evidence comes to light: Erdogan took to the skies in a Gulfstream jet while the coup was ongoing. It was tracked by radar, the flight is apparently visible on flight tracker websites. After all the suspicious plane crashes over the years that might, or might not, have been related to some military/intelligence activity, are we to think that the US MIC has lost its nerve, or its capability, to down a civilian plane?
"All that is necessary for tyranny to succeed is for good men to do nothing." (unknown)
James Tracy: "There is sometimes an undue amount of paranoia among some conspiracy researchers that can contribute to flawed observations and analysis."
Gary Cornwell (Dept. Chief Counsel HSCA): "A fact merely marks the point at which we have agreed to let investigation cease."
Alan Ford: "Just because you believe it, that doesn't make it so."
James Tracy: "There is sometimes an undue amount of paranoia among some conspiracy researchers that can contribute to flawed observations and analysis."
Gary Cornwell (Dept. Chief Counsel HSCA): "A fact merely marks the point at which we have agreed to let investigation cease."
Alan Ford: "Just because you believe it, that doesn't make it so."