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Comment: Keep in mind the source of this article: Graham Fuller, 'ex' CIA officer whose daughter married the uncle of the Boston Marathon 'bombers', and whom Sibel Edmonds ties to the Gulen/CIA/Gladio ops of the mid-to-late 90s.
It was welcome news that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was dramatically foiled in his bid to win a majority in Turkey's recent parliamentary elections. Those elections were in essence a referendum on Erdogan himself and his ambitions to create a super-presidency in which he could legally extend his increasingly authoritarian ruling style for years to come.
The Turkish public clearly recognized that Erdogan had overextended himself and had lost his touch in the increasing self-adulation and erratic ruling style over the past few years. The AKP, even with a plurality of votes, will not now be able to form a government without the participation of one or more opposition political parties.
Comment: The first signs of the West turning on Erdogan came more than two years ago. Presumably, he was allowed to stay in power because of Turkey's essential war in the war on Syria. But cooperation with Russia seems to have been the red line for the U.S. Unfortunately for them, the coup has failed: the plotters did not manage to fully control the media, did not arrest key officials, and counted on popular support, which turned to be overwhelmingly in Erdogan's favor and not the military. Now, Erdogan will be able to purge the military and government of the U.S./NATO/CIA/Gulen plants (as well as other opposition his government perceives as dangerous, perhaps), and with relations with U.S. 'hurt' (to quote Kerry), Russia is waiting with even wider-open arms.
See also Sibel Edmonds's interviews with Corbett about Erdogan here and here.