You are naive, the coup was the first attempt to bring Western backed change into Turkey. With the help of Iran’s national security council it failed. Because Iran saw the big picture.
And you are wrong. Iran was the one that helped get rid of the coup attempt? That's a new one, I've never heard of such a ridiculous claim.
There is no evidence that the coup was western backed. Consider the history of turkey and it's previous coup attempt first. The Turkish army doesn't need help nor advise from foreign powers to commit a coup. As such, this is nothing more than a fake conspiracy theory.
Soon the real intentions became clear with the tool the West loves the most: sanctions
Trump, and Trump alone. No one backed him on this, and even his own advisors warned him not to do it, as it would jeopardize NATO operations in the region.
France has already declared that it would back Turkey on these temporary sanctions.
This isn’t about some pastor being held by Turkey (if that were the case US would have to sanction a lot of countries for dubious reasons).
Of course it isn't, when did I say it was? That's just the excuse given. The reality is that Trump has been trying to weaken NATO, as an excuse to eventually pull out. It's also a larger part of his trade war, and his policy in Syria.
US found its excuse in the pastor just as it did with Russia annexing Crimea. It will continue looking for excuses in order to reach its agenda.
Yeah, no shit.
So no Turkey is not doing “fine” regionally. It’s actually in a dangerous position. It has to navigate carefully. The weakness with Turks is their arrogance. It’s exploitable.
No, Turkey is actually doing quite well. It's only real problem is from Trump's policy on Syria and NATO. Regionally, Turkey has actually expanded its influence; Take Iraq, where turkey's influence was limited to the KRG, now it has expanded to the central government, and is in a stalemate with Iran.
Another issue here is the same issue that plagued Bashar Al Assad after the end of the Iraq civil war. Assad was for the longest time allowing militants to cross into Iraq from syria to fight in the civil war and against US occupation. Those fighters ended up building a network within syria and eventually turned on the hand that facilitated them.
So, we're just going to ignore that most of the factions fighting Assad were created post Syrian civil war.
Still, you do sort of have a point here, a few militant groups he supported did turn against him.
Turkey for the past several years has been facilitating the movement of many Miltants, those same militants have built a network in Turkey as evidenced by a few terrorist attacks in Turkey.
Citation needed.
While there have been terror attacks, they've occurred by the hands of the PKK and it's afiliates, and ocassionally ISIS. You're gonna have to try harder on this one.
With an estimated ~150,000 radical militants in Idlib province, Turkey faces a very dangerous internal security situation as the Syrian civil war draws to a close.
150,000 radicals, again, citation needed.
While the West cannot outright shun Turkey without weakening NATO, it also isn’t going to stop trying to Persue it’s agenda.
Again, not the west, just Trump.
Rarely does the West apply sanctions then back off. Usually sanctions are the opening salvo of pressure that may continue.
Most of the so called sanctions are merely 90 day holds. Take the military sales sanctions, which ever keeps hyping, it's a 90 day hold, which is meant to put pressure on Turkey, but will end up back firing, as Trump likes to play zero sum games, he rarely wins.
