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Turkish coup attempt reportedly fails, Obama backs Erdogan, Erdogan vows arrests

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The International Spectator is reporting now that the coup attempt has failed:

Turkish coup fails

Whether it has or not, Obama has backed Erdogan, and thus the continuing Islamization of formerly secular Turkey: “Live Now: Turkish Army Attempts to Seize Control of Country,” Bloomberg, July 15, 2016:

…Here’s an excerpt from the White House release on the call between Obama and Kerry:

The President and Secretary agreed that all parties in Turkey should support the democratically-elected Government of Turkey, show restraint, and avoid any violence or bloodshed. The Secretary underscored that the State Department will continue to focus on the safety and security of U.S. citizens in Turkey.

CATCHUP: Erdogan Repeats Resolve to Fight Attempted Coup, Says Arrest Warrants Have Been Issued; U.S. Official Says Situation Has No Impact on Incirlik Air Base; Reports Continue of Civilian and Police Getting Wounded; MSCI Turkey ETF Lost 2.5%…

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    • It does not seem to over yet. The psy-ops has barely started. Both sides are trying to win the support of the population, in their own way. The only way erdogan could survive is if he turn the population against the military. The military would win if the population does not actively confront it.

      This coup is quite substantial in that it involves not just multiple coordinated seizures of erdogan controlled institutions (media, law enforcement loyal to erdogan, parliament), but also the deployment of heavy military equipment including (reportedly) the used of attack helocopter against a police special unit.

      While there may be some very high ranking generals who supported erdogan (corp or army level generals who themselves may be politically favoured appointments), most military officers appear not to. Incidentally, considering what has happened previously to the prosecution of senior (now retired) military officers, many within the military do not trust erdogan.

      If this drags out to more than a few days, while the military maintains relatively peaceful overall control of the country, then erdogan is finished. The military is looking for him and eventually he will run out of places to hide.

      So, it is not over until the Fat Lady sings.

    • Lesson from history

      In 1832 the powerful Mohammed Ali “the Great”, founder of modern Egypt, decided he had enough of the the Ottoman Sultan and sent his army to capture Istanbul. The fate of the Ottomans looked sealed as the Egyptian army surrounded Istanbul. The Western powers (British) panicked and rushed to rescue the Ottomans, which they did.

      It would be foolish to think that Erdogan was sitting in Ankara without Western powers’ blessings. And it is foolish to think they will let him go without siding by him.
      Remember, all the corrupt monarchies in the Middle East wouldn’t exist without the help of Western powers.

    • Prez Barack Hussein must be relieved. Now Erdogan can go back to manipulation of the press and abuse of the justice system to limit free speech by throwing dissenters in prison. It is notable here that American troops are on the line to defend this regime against external attack; Turkey is our NATO ally. My we’ve come a long way since the Berlin Wall was torn down. Coincidentally, just last week Germany passed a law making it a crime for Germans to publicly criticize Erdogan, and two weeks ago Loretta threatened to prosecute anybody in America with the nerve to criticize Islam. The ring is closing…. around our throats.

    • Indeed it will. His mandate, as he sees it, to turn Turkey into an Islamic Republic, will now have proven and increased popular support. To quote another, dammit.

    • Well he is going to purge the military, specifically the officer corps. Perhaps that will make the turkish military more impotent.

  6. Seems like it was a faction in the army, like previous attempts. But loyal forces were greater in strengh and regained control. Expect a new purge of the military leadership of secular influences after this, though we can’t be sure at this point if the coup was secular leaning or Islamist.

  7. What a pity!!! Bloody Obama and Adolf Erdogan sitting in a tree……so it was only a lover’s quarrel after all that gave us false hope.

  8. Well Obama is quite consistent here, he backed Muslim Brotherhood Mohamed Morsi too.

    • Apparently Obama backed Morsi since he did nothing about Sisi’s coup except offer meaningless lip service verbal condemnation and then proceedes to continue military aid to Egypt under Sisi. /s

      And apprently coming out in favor of a failed coup attempt instead of offering the usual lip service empty words every American President makes about democracy after waiting to see who was winning, is the best option. /s

      You are truly a strategic genius. /s

  9. Just like OBAMA backed Mursi Hope the Other Nations will grab Obama next time he is in their Nations and put him in their jail for Crimes Against Humanity

    They are going to go to war any ways, so the other Nations need to grab USA war mongers…

    • At least Jimmy was an ethical man. Maybe too honest for the job. No BO is uch worse!

      • @Hank

        Well …, another “ethical” Antisemite more, another less, what the matter?

        Have not yet heard Dhimmi Carter or Hussein Barak Obama call for a
        “two state solution” in Turkey, despite the real Kurds outnumbering
        the “Palestinians” by about ten to one!

        In turn, Erdogan “Democracy” is so well organised and efficient, and
        his instantaneous sacking of more than 2700 judges appears to
        indicate that he new and possibly planned the “attempted coup”
        himself, and new about it more than the alleged “materminds” in
        a masterstroke of Hitlerian style “Democracy”.

    • Whatever Carter did it can’t hold a candle to Obama and his “weaken-and-destroy-democracy-then-Islamify-the-USA-and-the-world-for-allah-while-denouncing-Christianity” policy while pretending to be American and black.
      This is Obama’s jihad!!!

  12. The EU also backed the “democratically elected government”, although they seemed to have done so after the turnabout.

    • You have something there with your tongue in cheek comment about Turkey’s governmentI was in Istanbul last November on Turkey’s election day, and the consensus among the Turks I spoke with was that the election results were rigged in favor of Erdogan’s party. The polls opened on Sunday morning and the country wide results were out by 4:00; seemed really fishy. There certainly didn’t seem to be much love for Erdogan in European Istanbul.

  13. Turkish coup attempt reportedly fails, Obama backs Erdogan, Erdogan vows arrests
    …………………

    Terrifying, if true. There will be a bloodbath of remaining Turkish secularists.

  14. It’s too soon to come to any conclusions about what has happened, who did what, and why. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that Erdogan is OUSTED and replaced by a truly democratically elected secular government, as was in place when he took office, I believe.

    Cheers!

    quotha raven

  15. Let us not give up on Erdogan’s ouster!

    The General Sisi from Egypt may step in the coup to help – he is man with an attribute of high morality and endless prudence! Egypt joining Turkey would bring stability in the now unstable and turbulent ME!

    If BO steps in to hinder Turkeys coup’s he will come to regret it! The USAF outfit in Turkey may go against his wishes to quash the coup efforts.

    The newly built minaret’s on the grounds of the Hagia Sophia Church in Istanbul must be demolished!

  17. Oh Bumma seems to grin from ear-to-ear whenever he sees islam growing politically somewhere in the world. Leftists are incredible hypocrites, separation of Church & State for Christianity, support of Mosque & State for Islam.

    • By that I mean a balance of power is certainly a good thing, and I don’t want to see the British Roman Catholic Church rule millions of citizens again, but the same leftists that are tearing down crosses and 10 Commandments plaques everywhere (they often LOSE such lawsuits because such things are considered culture-based heritage & not state imposed) – but I digress those same leftists secretly smile at islam’s political gains because they know it will lead to more chaos & anarchy, so the growing leftist government can step in and take control.

    • “Leftists are incredible hypocrites, separation of Church & State for Christianity, support of Mosque & State for Islam.”

      That pretty much covers it.

      How VERY well stated, MHEd!

      • Why don’t you sober up and start supporting Americans if you want to live here.

    • You pose a question re ‘ONE’ Islamist?? — Try many hundreds of thousands that are being spread all over the country and already have several MAJOR presences in strategic locations around the country and they are breading like the rats and flies they are — and there is not one a$$hole politician doing anything about it except kissing the SOB’s a$$es! — With our money!

  19. Of course, “democratically elected government” was widely thought to be a “fixed election” at the time the voting took place.

    Cheers!

    quota raven

    • @quota raven

      to quote myself from a few decades ago:

      … and it ought upon to reflected
      that even Hitler was “democratically elected” …

  20. I believe the coup attempt was staged by Erdogan himself. Since he lost power in the election and couldn’t ram through laws that made him a emperor, he staged this to grab more personal power in the name of stability and now the West can’t complain.

    • Yes, I’d go with that. In fact I think it was his “Reichstag Fire” moment. All opposition will now be swept away.

  21. The Muslim Brotherhood was democratically elected with only a little support from Obama. The Nigerian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood was democratically elected with moderate support from Obama while the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood was democratically elected with massive support from Obama. The other election where Obama provided massive democratic support was in Israel to democratically oppose Netanyahu.

    Obama always supports democracy. That is why he allows criminals to participate in America. Even illegal aliens are given the opportunity to learn about democracy. Democrats believe in democracy so much that they even raise the dead and have people vote multiple times.

    Republicans are not nearly as democratic as the Democrats. Donald Trump will return America to the days of the Constitution where one legal and breathing citizen only has one vote. How regressive!

    • ‘Democratically elected’…Egypt is not America…Saddam was ‘democratically elected’ with 100% voting for him…Ergogan also eliminated the competition…

      any’democracy in Islamic country;s is a joke…

  23. People on twitter were posting pictures of soldiers being thrown off overpasses and of soldiers who looked like they had been beaten to death. Reports said they were being tortured and executed by pro-Erdogan mobs.

    Twitter has since taken them down.

    All that injustice is on Obama.

    • All that injustice is on all Americans and Erdogan for allowing their country to get away with it.

  24. Looks like the U.S. has become just another terrorist state.
    Obama wants to back more terrorists by backing Erdogan who has been supporting ISIS all along and guying their black market oil..
    America supports all the terrorists because our politicians are heavily invested in the military industrial complex and they have to keep the WMD moving.
    We support:
    Turkey
    Israel
    Saudi Arabia
    Taliban
    Pakistan
    and all other terrorist groups that will let us make them our puppet to get arms.
    We have started up the cold war with Russia for no reason other than to have an excuse to raise the budget for the military industrial complex.
    We agitate China for no good reason and keep trying to start a war with them

    • Sounds like the world would be better off without America? Hmmm? And without Israel, according to you? Are Muslims (puppets) responsible for anything? Who was responsible for 9/11?

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