The U.S. Tried To Kill Erdogan, Says Editor In Chief Of Turkish Daily

[Purveyor]

Source: Washington Post

A column in a major Turkish daily claims the United States planned last week's failed coup and tried to kill Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Ibrahim Karagul, editor in chief of Yeni Safak, a right-wing newspaper, pinned the putsch on Washington, which has given sanctuary to the controversial figure whose movement Turkish authorities claim was behind the attempted violent takeover of the state. The ongoing purge of thousands of members of the country's military, judiciary and civil bureaucracy is ostensibly aimed at rooting out those linked to Fethullah Gulen, the aging Turkish cleric who lives in a compound in Pennsylvania.

[Turkey suspends more than 15,000 education workers in widening purge]

"The U.S. administration planned a coup in Turkey through the Gülen terror organization and tried to cause a civil war, make our people kill each other," wrote Karagul. "The U.S. is the one who planned and applied this coup attempt. Those generals, those traitors got all the instructions from Gülen and he conveyed the orders of those who planned the intervention."

He continued: "The U.S. administration which protects a terrorist organization should be declared as a country that supports terrorism. This country, which is still carrying out operations on Turkey through Gülen, directed its final attack especially on our country and rained bullets on our civilian people through Gülen's terrorists."

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/07/19/the-u-s-tried-to-kill-erdogan-says-editor-in-chief-of-turkish-daily/

[cstanleytech]

1. I think we just found a potential replacement for Roger Ailes, quick someone let Rupert know!!!

[maxsolomon]

2. There's the finger pointing at external enemies

Textbook Fascism.

[Ford_Prefect]

3. The way things have been going it could be he's at least 50% right. Gülen has ties to the CIA and

with all the games-within-games in perpetual war land this could have been one of a number of scenarios in play.

Of course it could also be some Turkish citizens got tired of Erdogan, or got wind of his plan to arrest the Judges and others, and decided 1/2 a cup is better than the corner Erdogan seems determined to drag everyone else into.

Several sites I have read seem convinced there will be another more successful coup in the future, saying that this was essentially a dry run to see how Erdogan and others would react.

[AngryAmish]

12. This is why I follow Turkish politics

I love conspiracy theories. I used to love Art Bell. And some of the things in Turkish politics are true!

Pure entertainment.

[George II]

4. Total BS.

[still_one]

7. My thoughts exactly

[4139]

5. Hate to say this but...

We ousted momar, tried to oust Assad, and sided with the coups in Ukraine and Honduras... Go back further and the list is enormous.

We kinda do fit the profile.

[uawchild]

6. Woah, awesome clarity

We do indeed fit the profile.

America's Coup Machine: Destroying Democracy Since 1953
http://www.alternet.org/world/americas-coup-machine-destroying-democracy-1953

[JI7]

8. turkey has a history of its own

[cstanleytech]

11. None of those were members of NATO and also Turkey has a large history of military coups so

its not hard to imagine another taking place, that is of course assuming a coup took place at all this time and it wasnt some elaborate ruse being done with the sole purpose of purging the entire government of anyone who might even object to anything the Turkish president was doing.

[bemildred]

9. Desperate Babble. nt

[awoke_in_2003]

10. Had we wanted him dead...

he would already be so.