Coup Underway in Turkey

[David Guyatt]

From the "Delicate Operatons" article:

Some forgot, that on the eve of the putsch, Russian geopolitician and Eurasianist Aleksandr Dugin was on a several-day visit to Turkey. His presence on the evening of July 15th at a Turkish airport, is perceived as a fun coincidence that doesn't deserve attention. But in fact he was in Turkey as a guest of Turkish nationalists-Eurasianists of the organization "Ergenekon", which a decade ago tried to overthrow Erdogan. The organization consists of Turkish military-Eurasianists, most of whom were then rounded up by the Turkish authorities to jail. Aleksandr Dugin was again in Turkey, just before "Ergenekon" members were arrested. What a coincidence!

You got to wonder why Erdogan didn't heap blame on the Russians for the coup.

Maybe it was because it was the Russians warned him the coup was going to happen and that warning meant he was able to evade capture...

You also have to wonder why a "CIA guy leading the "coup"" (Barkey) would need to watch it unfold on CNN (You know, that's exactly how I got my information about the coup, right here in Texas...), or why he would need the hotel to arrange a phone call to CNN when he had a cell phone, a smart phone, and a laptop (I have a cell phone, a smart phone, and a laptop...), especially in light of the ominous fact that he was "accused of making several telephone conversations on the coup night." (I'm pretty sure I did that too...)

Well, let me see... Since we're hypothesizing, how about:

1) The White House often watch fast-moving events unfold on CNN and other news channels. And, blimey! so do the CIA too, I think. Public perception is critical to the success of a covert operation. Hence the floated false story that Erdogan had fled to Germany.

2) CNN and some of its reporters are fairly well known to be very "cooperative" with - and agents for - the CIA (see HERE). And, of course, Operation Mockingbird (HERE) factors into this.

3) Setting up a sophisticated and tamper free communications network away from a CIA station, or a US military base, or an embassy etc, is fraught with difficulties and would almost certainly create an immediate and glaring fingerprint to the domestic and foreign intelligence listening stations that perpetually monitor the airwaves. It's far safer and more sensible to monitor breaking events via a commercial network like CNN, especially for a covert operation where deniability is an absolute requirement.

4) Speaking about watching the airwaves, it was the Russian listening station in Syria who picked up unusual signals traffic that alerted them that a coup was imminent and give a warning to Erdogan.

Btw, Barkey's got a Twitter page. Perhaps you should ask him? But I don't know how anyone might be able to judge the reliability of his replies.

He was born in Turkey btw and speaks fluent Turkish.