Behind the CIA's Failed Coup in Turkey: Was It Only a Dry Run?

Behind the CIA's Failed Coup in Turkey: Was It Only a Dry Run?
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Published on Jul 18, 2016
SHOW NOTES AND MP3: https://www.corbettreport.com/?p=19275

As we predicted last year, the deep state coup against Erdogan finally materialized last weekend...but it fizzled out almost as quickly as it arrived. So what are we to make of this would-be putsch? Did Erdogan allow it to happen in order to further cement his control on the rebound? Or was this merely a trial run for the real CIA/NATO/Gulenist coup yet to come? And what role do the Turkish people play in all of this? Joining us today to dissect the mayhem is Sibel Edmonds and Spiro Skouras of Newsbud.com.

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Former FBI translator, Turkish-Born
Sibel Edmonds is adamant that the
attempted coup against Erdogan,
which she'd long-anticipated was
orchestrated by the US Deep State.
She is fuming and she would like to
see the Turkish people move to shut
down all US embassies, consulates
and think tanks in Turkey until these
show proper respect for Turkish
sovereignty.

Edmonds has a vast knowledge of
geopolitics, especially pertaining to
Turkey, both from her heritage as
the daughter of Iranian-Azerbaijani
father and a Turkish mother. She is
fluent in in Azerbaijani, Farsi, Turkish
and English. From her tenure at the
FBI, she learned plenty about the
profound relationship between the
US and Turkish Deep States.

Her opinions are 180º from what are
generally being reported in the West,
so they're of great interest and
important to be made known. Moreover,
her views about the Turkish attempted
coup are shared by "The Saker", a
pseudonym for a high level American
military analyst who lives in Florida -
or in his own words, a "legal alien
currently living in the Imperial
Homeland." His blog, thesaker.is
receives tons of traffic and he is
extremely well-respected for his incisive
analysis of geopolitics, particularly
relating to the sphere of Russia (which
includes Turkey).

Edmonds describes Fethulleh Gülen
as an "extremist", "Ayatollah mullah",
"terrorist", currently under criminal
investigation by the FBI for money
laundering, among other things. She
describes his allegedly "moderate"
charter schools as "madrasas", that
are spawning extremism worldwide
and she describes Gülen as wanting
to see Sharia Law implemented in
Turkey, quite contrary to the
"moderate" public front of the
Gülenist Movement. She describes
Gülen personally as a senile figurehead
for a real fundamentalist Islamic
movement that exists in Turkey, with
the support from the Clinton Foundation.

She does not see the coup as "staged"
by Erdogan so much as his taking
advantage of his foreknowledge of it,
as it was so long in coming. She opines
that he's using these events as an
opportunity to clean house. She does
not see Erdogan as being under US
control and she points to the incredible
support for Erdogan shown by the
Turkish people, who followed his call to
take to the streets and by bravely
climbing on the military tanks while
completely unarmed.

As for The Saker, in his opinion, "..this
coup is an embarrassment for Erdogan
who had already purged the Turkish
armed forces many times over and who
could not take the risk of having a
planned 'false flag' turn into the real
thing: even General Bekir Ercan Van,
the commander of Turkey's Incirlik
airbase has been detained by Turkish
authorities, accused of complicity in the
attempted coup. So not only did this
coup show that Erdogan was hated at
the very top level of the Turkish armed
forces, but the failure of the coup has
now resulted in a huge purge, which
will tremendously weaken the Turkish
armed forces who are involved not only
in Syria but also in in a bloody civil war
against the Kurds. So, the notion that
Erdogan triggered this coup himself
appears very far-fetched to me."

Edmonds asks how did 42 Turkish
helicopters go missing from Incirlik
Airbase, just 62 miles from the Syrian
border? What does this say about the
90-odd nuclear warheads located at
this base? Could local terrorists,
including ISIS get their hands on
nuclear weapons?

RT is additionally reporting that the
Turkish navy cannot account for 14
ships plus 2 helicopters and 25 special
forces troops, which are missing and
suspected of being under the control
of coup plotters, heading towards
Greek ports.

Like many, Edmonds is concerned that
this could bode for another coup effort
underway, the half-cocked one over
the weekend having been a dry run for
a bigger CIA/NATO/Gülenist coup yet to
come.

According to RT, "Prime Minister Binali
Yildrim says 7,543 people have been
detained, including 6,038 soldiers. A
court also remanded 26 generals and
admirals in custody on Monday.

"A senior security official told Reuters
that 8,000 police officers...had been
removed from duty.

"About 1,500 Finance Ministry officials
had been suspended...and CNN Turk
said 30 governors and more than 50
high-ranking civil servants had been
dismissed...while close to 3,000 judges
and prosecutors have been suspended."

This doesn't sound like an environment
in which a coup can reboot, in my
opinion.

As for the Saker, he doesn't consider
another attempted coup, although he
sees a weakened Turkey, consumed with
its own crisis as "...a good thing for
Russia, Syria and, really, the entire
region."

Newsbud.com's Spiro Skouras weighs in,
along with James Corbett, in this still-
breaking story, asking: what are we to
make of this would-be Putsch?

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Behind the CIA's Failed Coup in Turkey: Was It Only a Dry Run?