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"BLEEDING TURKISH"

Erdogan is going further than Washington approves: Why?

By Horace Husseini

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The failure of an alleged coup attempt against the government of Tiyip Erdogan seems to have opened a new chapter in the political history of Turkey, one that goes back to the nation at times of impalements and dungeons. Although the impalements is rather a metaphor to talk about the penalties, the fact is that in the last 72 hours, the country has become a real Gulag and seems to go right to become a giant detention camp "traitors ".

The irony of fate. Those who met the dirtiest orders against Arab peoples of Syria and Iraq now fall under the pitiless sword of the tyrant who like the rabid dog bite without distinguishing anyone. Even the conspirators are abandoned by Washington, as is usual- who closed the door in his face and the unknown.

The numbers speak for themselves and they show something more than an act of justice by the government. 

Until now some say about 9,000 arrests, including hundreds of admirals and generals, judges, prosecutors, police chiefs, civil related to several of these officials and figures would increase in the coming days are counted. For other sources, the current figures are 50,000 detainees including teachers, professors and religious leaders adherents to the current Gulen are included.

Already leaked some snapshots of what is happening with simple privates to obey orders, were mobilized in the alleged attempted without knowing what their objectives. One shows hundreds of soldiers without their clothes, lying on the floor of a room, stacked with his hands cuffed behind his back to mercy officers loyal to Erdogan. For those with a little memory and knowing the close relationship, reminiscent of the images of Abu-Ghraib prison in Iraq and similar abuses at Guantanamo, Cuba where the US military under the supervision of elements of the CIA, made each of these people , hell through tortures and humiliations most abhorrent that anyone could imagine.

Given this evidence and the clear lack of control that is occurring in the country, Washington looking as the saying says "that blood does not reach the river," called on the government of Erdogan to moderate its methods as it is a condition for membership NATO, respect for democracy; a definition that neither the Americans themselves have never respected. But apparently there are more important reasons for Erdogan, leading him to ignore appearances at the White House and Secretary of State John Kerry. According to some intelligence sources, Moscow had warned Erdogan almost a month in advance, the possibility of an uprising supported from Washington and that plans was his physical elimination. The latter seems to be confirmed with the failed assassination attempt on Erdogan when he was in the coastal town of Marmaris where a command of men attacked his vehicle convoy escort and killing two of his bodyguards.

If something does not distinguish the government of  Recep Erdogan Tiyip is its corrupt brutality that with this new framework, it appears that the increase to levels unimagined. The so-called democracy in Turkey has undoubtedly become an express autocracy, which has achieved the opportunity to concentrate absolute power and undertake unlimited, persecution the most faithful style of Stalin. It is certainly a dream come true, with which Erdogan may take off until the last of their opponents. But this is not new, continuously, Washington and the EU have tolerated violations of human rights carried out by Ankara and is, as a remembered US official of one of their puppets in the Middle East said and that fits very well Turkish president is, "Erdogan is a  Son of a bitch, but he's our son of a bitch".

It seems clear that the motivations for this attempt were not in the Erdogan government incongruities crystallized with its relations with the "ISIL" and "Al Qaeda". The real reasons for this were based on Erdogan's sudden decision to take a turn towards Moscow and Washington turn my back on something that would not pass without consequences. Apparently among the new plans include the Russian-Turkish reconciliation, the retooling of military equipment would be found for the Turkish armed forces with weapons of Russian origin would include, next-generation aircraft.

Do not forget that the crisis in the Ankara government had begun by the end of November 2015 when two F-16 fighters led by an aircraft electronic intelligence AWACS American Command based in Saudi Arabia tore down cunningly to a SU-24 Russian who It is operating against the mercenaries of “Al-Nusra Front” in northern Syria. Vladimir Putin and his government the situation was intolerable and there was no way that what happened be forgotten.

Erdogan forces and followers acting

Apparently and beyond that Erdogan he says as the brain of the attempt to Fetulá Gulen who lives in Pennsylvania, USA, there are strong arguments in Ankara to believe that Gulen was used or rather collaborate with the White House and the Pentagon to get rid of he. According to some reports, the success of the putsch was guaranteed because once the rule of a military junta as happened in Egypt Washington would recognize the proclamation of the military who would call elections which installed Erdogan removed, would rise a new pro-American stooge .

But the failure besides retaliation limitless being watched across the country, seems to feed a disruptive current in the Turkish Armed Forces, according to several Russian reports, they are deserting to escape reprisals and purges the regime has begun to implement on every house and every department of the state. 

One of the clearest cases being seen in the Turkish navy, which after the attempted coup whereabouts Commander in Chief Veysel Kosele is unknown and it has been reported that a fleet of fourteen warships have fled their ports to water international ostensibly intended to seek refuge in Greece.

Not only that, they have also been reported by some intelligence sources that Turkish agents at MIT who were advising the mercenary groups in Aleppo, left the Syrian city a few hours after the coup have begun, without being constrained to where they went.

The situation has been exploited by Erdogan to try to reinstate the death penalty had been abolished in 1984 and with the excuse to nip future attempts, try to make what many well suppose, a political-ideological cleansing retroactive effect, which rolled back to Turkey at the time of the impalement, slow death and suffering that was given to traitors.

With this background, the situation of Erdogan and his government can come dangerously close to that of a despot uncontrolled who, with apparent new support in Moscow, will seek to implement these plans under a discretion that has ceased to be discreet and product thus, the same Vladimir Putin has made clear that it must respect human rights and not go beyond what the law allows.

No doubt that Erdogan feels hurt in his pride for having proved that Washington has wanted to throw it away, as has often been done with other puppets in the region and appears to retaliate with their own citizens for the consequences of those games dirty whom he played so well until recently; not forget that the Turkish president under the auspices of the White House, and continues do what- violated international law and all of the mandatory UN Charter with its aggressive interference in Syria and Iraq even daring to shoot down a plane Russian Federation which marked the beginning of the end.

There are many signs and many indications that the Turkish military were seduced by Washington since, in addition to participation both have within NATO, there is historically a very close relationship between the Pentagon and the Turkish armed forces and also very oily relations collaboration in the field of intelligence.