Coup Underway in Turkey

[Paul Rigby]

From Colonel Cassad:

Compromised meeting

http://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/288...tml#cutid1

Turkey has released a screenshot from a video surveillance camera, which depicts a meeting the day before the attempted coup between US Ambassador John Bass and one of the leaders of the putschists:

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The US ambassador claimed that Washington played no role in the Istanbul insurrection: "The US administration would have informed Ankara of coup plotting if it had possessed such information." Ambassador John Bass added that he was outraged by accusations against his country.

The attempted military coup in Turkey was made ​​on the night of July 16. The President of Turkey insisted the coup had followed "a script written from abroad."

In the photo, we see Ambassador John Bass and a colonel near the Cengelkoy cafe in Istanbul on the morning of July 14th. Bass claims he arrived in Istanbul only on July 15 and appeared in the embassy complex at 2130hrs, when the coup has already begun .

Thus, the Turks caught the US ambassador in an outright lie.

In response, the Americans revised their version and now admit that on 14 July Bass met the Turkish Minister of Culture, and the country's Ombudsman; but nevertheless declared the photo a fake, suggesting that the Turkish secret services, who are almost certainly behind the leak, fabricated the photograph.

At the same time, the United States officially continued to reject the Turkish accusations against the State Department and the CIA, both of which, according to Erdogan and his circle, were behind the coup. We await with interest the continuation of this story, as Erdogan is plainly not relenting in his accusations against the United States, although it is possible, of course, that all of this is just another game for the court of public opinion.