The coup in Turkey has failed. Naturally, Mr. Erdogan is consolidating his power, and is rounding up his enemies. The fog is still thick, though.
Was it a false-flag job? Erdogan is blaming the exiled dawa jihadist Fethullah GÁ¼len — who, from his compound in Pennsylvania, leads a large and subversive faction in Turkey. Some reports have suggested that the coup was attempted in haste because word had leaked out of an impending purge of GÁ¼lenists in the military.
Who knows? Not me. Both stories seem plausible. If I were Erdogan, and wanted to make a truly effective purge, I’d want to get public sympathy on my side, and what better way to do so than to fake a coup first, and blame it on GÁ¼len? But the other account — that leaders of a GÁ¼lenist faction in the Turkish military got wind of a coming purge, and figured that a coup, however ill-prepared, was a better chance than waiting for the axe to fall — makes sense too.
Learn more about Mr. GÁ¼len here.
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steve sailer has written about this gulen character scaming the american tax payers for years. send him back to erdogan for further processing.
@Whitewall
He probably wants “patriotic” “French” Muslims to tool up. To fight terrorism lol. And he probably believes it. Nobody in power in the West wants any genuinely patriotic natives joining any militias or the military proper. Actual patriotism means a rope around their necks.
Wilbur and Voting, it makes one wonder whether the West’s first enemies are Leftists or Islamists? Either way, this coup ended badly with strongman Erdogan even more powerful and the “democratic” population more obedient. I think this Gulen character is a distraction to leverage Obama into an even weaker position.