Turkish Coup

[Al_U_Card]

Perhaps somewhat reminiscent of Iran and the "coup" to remove the elected leader Mosaddeq and replace him with a more compliant (to the US position) individual. Relative to the coup "instigator" I read that:

 

"It was a coup initiated by the CIA acting through their primary asset inside Turkey, the networks of their fugitive Turkish asset Fethullah Gülen. When we examine more closely “what” is Fethullah Gülen he is anything but the grandfatherly image of a 75-year-old soft-spoken Islamic moderate, scholar and Imam. His networks have been called the most dangerous in Germany by Islamic experts and have been banned in several Central Asian countries. Now, too, in Turkey. What’s becoming clear is that the failed coup was in fact a dry-run, a dress rehearsal by Gülen’s controllers in Langley to see how Erdogan would react, in order to recalibrate and prepare for a more serious attempt in the future. Washington was not at all happy with the foreign policy turn of Erdoğan turning to reconcile with Russia and possibly also with Syria’s Assad."

[Zelandakh]

It sounds as if the Turkish Coup is a sub-category of the more generic Bath Coup.

Let's hope we don't end up with a Bloodbath Coup.

[onoway]

It's odd that nothing at all is being heard about what is going on in Turkey now. Has the media there been muzzled? After such a dramatic week it would seem reasonable to expect some news about what's going on now but there seems to be no news at at all, good, bad, indifferent or even irrelevant.