Studying Turkish Coup Attempt
Published on Jul 18, 2016
Published on Jul 18, 2016
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has been forced to cut short a speech after bursting into tears while paying respects to his supporters who were killed in a failed coup attempt.
Almost 9,000 Turkish officials have been dismissed from their jobs as Turkey escalates the crackdown following a failed coup attempt.
Turkey's Savings Deposit Insurance Fund has suspended activities of Asya bank, which is reportedly linked to Turkish opposition cleric Fethullah Gulen.
Saudi officials have reportedly detained the Turkish military attache to Kuwait at Ankara’s request for his alleged involvement in a recent attempted coup in Turkey.
A Greek court hearing the case of eight Turkish military officers, who escaped to Greece by helicopter during last Friday’s coup attempt, was adjourned for three days, local media reported Monday.
Turkish special forces launched a search operation in the Air Force Academy, located in a suburb of Istanbul, as Turkish security forces started conducting fresh raids in a relentless crackdown against the suspected plotters of a botched coup in the country.
Saudi whistle-blower Mujtahid, who is believed to be a member of or have a well-connected source in the royal family, dislosed that senior government officials in Riyadh and Abu Dhabi had been informed of the coup in Turkey long before it took place.
Former Emir of Qatar, Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani, harshly criticized Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir for his involvement in Friday’s coup attempt in Turkey while insisting the United States and another western country have orchestrated the abortive coup.
Turkey’s police used water cannons during an operation to detain coup plotters at the airbase in Konya, local sources said.
The Turkish police raided the Incirlik airbase where the US-led coalition's jets are based, local media reported.
Turkish authorities imposed a comprehensive ban on the Turkish government’s civil servants that effectively bars them from leaving the country, local sources reported.
Russia's President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The Kremlin's press service said the conversation was initiated by the Russian side.
Carl said:Breaking: Turkish pilots who downed Russian jet arrested in Turkey
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/breaking-turkish-pilots-downed-russian-jet-arrested-turkey/?utm_medium=ppc&utm_source=push&utm_campaign=push+notifications&utm_content=English
Things are really moving quickly!
On the surface, looks like Erdogan is throwing them under the bus after himself sanctioning the shoot down for months, making him a total hypocrite. But if we think that he was coerced, or had no role in the shoot down at all, it makes more sense.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BIA_d9_D9Ix/?taken-by=junusbek_evkurovRussian Su-24 bomber was shot down over Syria, the Turkish military without the knowledge of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan with the aim to embroil Ankara and Moscow. This opinion was expressed by the head of Ingushetia, Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, commenting on the attempted coup in Turkey.
- It now becomes understandable and version for downed Russian aircraft. This was done without the knowledge of most of President Erdogan, with the aim to embroil Russia and Turkey - said on his page on Instagram.
Mark Toner, deputy spokesperson for the US State Department, said on Monday that "it's absurd to think that United States was somehow complicit or anyway connected" to Friday's failed coup in Turkey.
Scottie said:Plus, the PTB's wishful thinking seems to really be biting them on the tookis lately, which is helpful...
The reason the coup in Turkey failed was (1) because it was launched far too early in the night, when most people were still awake and were therefore able to hear the news about the coup and could be mobilised quickly to oppose it; and (2) because Erdogan and the other members of the government were not immediately arrested by the coup plotters, and were therefore able to organise the resistance almost from the moment the coup got underway.
That points to the coup having been launched prematurely as a result of a leak. Fars says the coup was supposed to start at 3:00 am - a far more appropriate hour for launching a coup than the late evening and a time when organising resistance to the coup would have been all but impossible because most people would have been asleep - whilst it is an acknowledged fact that Erdogan was not at his hotel when troops came to arrest him, whilst it seems that attempts to arrest other members of the government also took place, and that they too had fled just in time and were able to escape arrest.
There has been no really satisfactory explanation to date of why the coup began so early or of why Erdogan and the other members of the government were able to escape arrest. The Turkish General Staff is saying there was a leak but the international media at least is providing few details. If there was a leak, forcing the plotters to start the coup too early and causing Erdogan and the other members of the government to escape arrest, then that would explain everything.
Of course that does not prove that the leak originated in Russia. However the Russians do have a very sophisticated intelligence operation in Syria and for obvious reasons they would have been monitoring Turkish military communications closely - exactly as the Fars reports say. It is entirely plausible therefore that they overheard Turkish military wireless traffic discussing the coup and that they tipped Erdogan and the Turkish government off.
Two Turkish ministers, Interior Minister Efkan Ala and Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag will travel to the United States in order to discuss possible extradition of opposition cleric Fethullah Gulen to Turkey, accused of masterminding last Friday's failed military coup.
The United States offered to dispatch a team to Turkey to help Ankara in processing its request to extradite Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, US Department of State spokesperson John Kirby said in a briefing on Thursday.
Turkish authorities revoked passports of 10, 856 citizens suspected in the links with the failed military coup, according to Turkish Interior Minister Efkan Ala.
Greece's authorities have strengthened control over its islands to prevent Turkish military suspected of having been involved in the recent attempted coup from getting into the country, media reported Friday.
Athens promised to extradite to Ankara eight alleged participants of the military coup attempt who fled to Greece, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Saturday.
Work of the Russian-Turkish Intergovernmental Commission on Trade and Economic Cooperation will be resumed soon, according to the decree of the Russian Cabinet.
Turkey has not yet decided on the reinstatement of the death penalty following a coup attempt that took place this month, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet Simsek said Tuesday.
On Monday the Turkish government issued an official request for an apology from US-based cable channel NBC News for what the former considers was false coverage about President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during last week’s attempted coup.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said that supporters of US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom Turkey accuses of orchestrating the recent botched coup, could stage another coup in Kyrgystan.