Tim Drayton wrote:...
- As to the 15 July 2016 attempted coup, theories abound but one that has merit is that a Kemalist group within the military tricked the Gülenists into starting a coup saying they would support them and then they went to Erdoğan and told him they could stop the coup if he accpeted their demands. This was seemingly a group on the fascist wing of Kemalilsm. This would then explain the subsequent permanent inclusion in government of the far-right MHP and a nutcase like Doğu Perinçek and the stunning policy U-turns that Erdoğan made following the failed coup, especially abandoning the bold moves he had been taking to find a political solution to the Kurdish problem and making it a military issue once more and taking harsh moves against the HDP party which has its origins in the Kurdish movement going as far as throwing many of its leading lights into jail.
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A tweet today from Selahattin Demirtaş, former general chair of the HDP party, sometimes described as the political wing of the Kurdish separatist movement, who has been held in pre-trial custody since November 2016 on blatantly political charges, in which he says an organized grouping within the state is using unconstitutional means to set up an authoritarian regime further supports the above thesis. I would suggest that this is the same group that orchestrated the coup and then turned it to its own advantage as I have described above. I consider Demirtaş to be a very astute observer, even if it is hard for him to follow events from jail.
Evrensel newspaper has reported on the tweet in English:
Selahattin Demirtaş: A structure secretly organized within the state is bringing its agenda to life
https://www.evrensel.net/daily/411072/s ... da-to-life
