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Actually he could not have planned this better himself...Now he will secure his rule for life. I think Turkey is done as a legitimate open & free democracy. IMHO.

I HOPE I'm wrong!! We will see.

That's not 'our' base at all though we helped 'em build it.

They've re-opened the base to military operations.

https://twitter.com/SpiegelPeter/status/754664136475312130?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

Interesting that Erdogan wants us to believe that the commander of this base was involved with this "coup". With respect to jet activity, all I saw from people who claimed to witness firsthand was that a handful of jets were continually creating sonic booms at low altitudes, probably trying to scare the population.

Possible scenario; commander of base goes to US military, tells them Erdogan is up to something, Erdogan responds by blockading the base until they give him up.

I don't think it's a coincidence that the end of the blockade coincided with the detaining of this commander.

"OK, Delta One--"Big Boss" is clear, fire at will!"

This stinks to high heaven.

I can't believe that any general or even field grade officer in the Turkish military would be so piss-poor in the planning department. The rank-and-file are conscripts, and many are uneducated and simply go along/get along, but the professionals, the ones who make it a career, are both skilled and trained within their areas of expertise. They're not losers wearing fruit salad.

Something is "off" about this--either that or the Turkish military has deteriorated into utter mush inside of two decades...and I just don't believe that.

One of the obstacles to figuring out what has happened is Erdogan's grip on the press. Our media outlets don't seem to fully understand that there is no free press in Turkey.

So pro coup. I could understand the right whingers at freerepublic but not here.

Repeated dosage of free elections even if u dont like results.

and that Erdoğan and his cronies won said free elections