Review: The Military Coup (1)

Parts of the parliament was bombed by an air strike that night

In fall 2016 there was a Turkish Military coup. However, when the army tried to overthrow the democratic elected government millions of Turkish men stood up against them, blocking tanks from moving and even lynching soldiers. Also loyal Turkish forces had no problem to regain control fast again. 

In the aftermath of this revolt Erdogan hold his personal enemy and former friend Fethullah Gülen, who is living in Pennsylvania in US exile, responsible. As he has many fans and a real network of schools and medias in Turkey not only many soldiers, policeman but also teachers and journalists were suspended and 35.000 of them are in Turkish prisons today. 

As the US does not deport Gülen, as demanded by Turkey and backed by proof, and as they recently always- by rating Turkey worse via their rating agencies until orchestrated protest when Erdogan is visiting the US among others- act against Turkey, they are suspected to be behind the coup.

By closing some newspapers and TV channels, Turkey does by definition not act against the free press and democracy in general– democracy is something different anyway- but in defense of a stable Turkey that is infiltrated by Gülen loyal personal. It does not allow their country is getting a second Afghanistan, Iraq, Egypt, Lybia or Ukraine but defend it like Russia, Hungary, and many East European countries are doing it right now.

Nevertheless, from a personal point of view, it is certainly not nice at all to see many historic medias of all kind getting rigidly shut down. 

With regards to the newspaper Zaman, which was shut down lately, and which even was controlled and financed from outside Turkey with the aim to alter Turkey in their ways, the necessity became obvious though.