It was a staged, phony coup to make Erdogan Sultan of Turkey

[livingdead]

Turks I met after the failed coup say the same... but then they are staunch anti-erdogan(I guess most expats are) and never hide that fact.. there is a sharp division in turkey between AKP supporters and those who oppse AKP.
I dont believe it is conspiracy but Erdogan is the winner here.

 

[xenon54 out]

there is a sharp division in turkey between AKP supporters and those who oppse AKP.

I myself am not fond of Erdogan as everybody knows but in Turkey everybody is siding with Erdogan on this one because we know Gülen much longer than you, his people infiltrating the state was a known secret for decades.


A speech from him in 1998:

“You must move in the arteries of the system without anyone noticing your existence until you reach all the power centers … until the conditions are ripe, they [the followers] must continue like this. If they do something prematurely, the world will crush our heads, and Muslims will suffer everywhere, like in the tragedies in Algeria, like in 1982 [in] Syria … like in the yearly disasters and tragedies in Egypt. The time is not yet right. You must wait for the time when you are complete and conditions are ripe, until we can shoulder the entire world and carry it … You must wait until such time as you have gotten all the state power, until you have brought to your side all the power of the constitutional institutions in Turkey … Until that time, any step taken would be too early—like breaking an egg without waiting the full forty days for it to hatch. It would be like killing the chick inside. The work to be done is [in] confronting the world. Now, I have expressed my feelings and thoughts to you all—in confidence … trusting your loyalty and secrecy. I know that when you leave here—[just] as you discard your empty juice boxes, you must discard the thoughts and the feelings that I expressed here.”


Source: https://defence.pk/threads/turkish-politics-internal-affairs.280659/page-310#post-8493556


What Sinan experienced in Ankara:

Yesterday night, i stopped by Güven Park in Kızılay/Ankara.

There were religious people, ordinary people, a motorcycle group full of tattoos, a group drinking beer, a group with tight jeans & shirts, ülkücü guys waving the wolf sign, men, women, children, old, young. Everybody was polite to each other and happy. At one point everybody was singing "Ölürüm Türkiyem" (I will die for you, my Turkey).

It felt so good to see everyone united.