Former Turkish officer at NATO: Coup attempt was never meant to succeed
A former Turkish officer who served at NATO headquarters in Brussels but was sacked and recalled to Turkey as part of an investigation into a failed coup on July 15 claims that the putsch was clumsily executed and never intended to bring down the government, but rather served as a vehicle for President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to eliminate opponents and the ultranationalists to take a prominent role in the military and impose their “Eurasian” agenda on the country.
Continued: http://www.turkishminute.com/2017/01/24/former-turkish-officer-nato-coup-attempt-never-meant-succeed/
Credit where credit is due, if I have this correctly, GeronL said this from the start. Of course, this is but one Turkish officer at NATO saying this.
