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What makes you say it was a fake coup?If it isn't just them fucking up a drone that got too close, I wonder if it could be a fake coup like the one Turkey had a yearish ago to drum up international support of the sitting government? Or at least for the perception of that to the people
News by social media has to be the wildest most unpredictable and least accurate ride you can take.
A lot of fucking gunfire for a drone. Either using the drone a an excuse to fire off more rounds than necessary or so soldiers need to go back to the range.
Watch this if you can. If you really need cliffs I can give them but its a slick entertaining video.
What makes you say it was a fake coup?
Some saying the King has been evacuated. Could be nothing, but looks like something.
Ergdogan is sketchy, and the pieces in the coup were very, very underwhelming and never stood a chance of accomplishing the goal
I can’t remember the details, but some non conspiracy theorist media sources had write ups that hinted at it, connecting the lines on how the people Erg executed/imprisoned for it were more political rivals than people actually capable of mobilizing elements of the military against the leader
Fwiw I don't think it was fake coup and I've even asked a Turkish academic, and Erdogan critic, about it and he agrees.Ergdogan is sketchy, and the pieces in the coup were very, very underwhelming and never stood a chance of accomplishing the goal
I can’t remember the details, but some non conspiracy theorist media sources had write ups that hinted at it, connecting the lines on how the people Erg executed/imprisoned for it were more political rivals than people actually capable of mobilizing elements of the military against the leader
Lol man, that was a CIA operation if I have ever seen one.
Fwiw I don't think it was fake coup and I've even asked a Turkish academic, and Erdogan critic, about it and he agrees.
One explanation for why the coup was sloppy was that it wasn't like the previous Turkish coups which were orchestrated by generals and this is because Erdogan had long broken and subordinated the military. Beyond that some have speculated that the government was on to those guys and they had to act more quickly than they would've hoped.
It looks fishy because Erdogan almost immediately started cracking down on dissidents and rivals but to me that's just Erdogan playing by the old adage of never let a good tragedy go to waste. And there seems to be some truth to the Gulen conspiracy even if it was horribly abused by Erdogan during the crackdown.
What people involved? You mean Gulen? Well a legitimate reason would be that he wasn't involved directly and that his followers acted on their own. The falling out between Gulen and Erdogan goes back to 2013 and the Gulen movement has been working on their long march through the institutions well before then so I think its very possible there's a level of independence there given Gulen's isolation from Turkey in Pennsylvania.Why are we refusing to extradite the people involved if it wasn't?
I mean we do have a extradition treaty with Turkey don't We?
What people involved? You mean Gulen? Well a legitimate reason would be that he wasn't involved directly and that his followers acted on their own. The falling out between Gulen and Erdogan goes back to 2013 and the Gulen movement has been working on their long march through the institutions well before then so I think its very possible there's a level of independence there given Gulen's isolation from Turkey in Pennsylvania.