Attempted military coup in Turkey, July 15, 2016

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Coup fails

Sources

Turkey on the ropes?

The plot

The plan

The execution

Erdogan returns

How it failed

Russia warned Erdogan?

  • Erdogan Warned of Incoming Coup by Russian Alert - Fars News, July 20, 2016
    Several Arab media outlets, including Rai Alyoum, quoted diplomatic sources in Ankara as saying that Turkey's National Intelligence Organization, known locally as the MIT, received intel from its Russian counterpart that warned of an impending coup in the Muslim state.
    The unnamed diplomats said the Russian army in the region had intercepted highly sensitive army exchanges and encoded radio messages showing that the Turkish army was readying to stage a coup against the administration in Ankara. The exchanges included dispatch of several army choppers to President Erdogan's resort hotel to arrest or kill the president.
    The diplomats were not sure of the Russian station that had intercepted the exchanges, but said the Russian army intelligence unit deployed in Khmeimim (also called Hmeimim) in Syria's Northern province of Lattakia is reportedly equipped with state-of-the-art electronic and eavesdropping systems to gather highly sensitive information for the Russian squadrons that are on an anti-terrorism mission in Syria.
  • Russia Warned Erdogan of Incoming Coup - Sergey Gladysh, The Duran, July 21, 2016
    It is believed that officers at the Russian Hmeimim Air Base in northern Syria, which houses modern intercept systems, were able to capture and analyze encrypted radio messages, revealing the plans of the Turkish military to topple the government and capture or kill President Erdogan.
  • Why Reports of the Russian Tip Off to Erdogan May Be True - Alexander Mercouris, The Duran, July 21, 2016
  • Why Russia Revealed Coup Plans to Erdogan - Nikolai Starikov, via Russia Insider, (original in Russian), July 21, 2016
  • Alexander Mercouris: Turkish Foreign Minister Thanks Russia for its Support - Alexander Mercouris, The Duran, July 25, 2016
  • Russia Should Hang Her Head in Shame for Betraying Anti-Erdogan Conspirators! - Eduard Limonov, via Russia Insider, (original in Russian), July 22, 2016
  • Russian Role In Thwarting Turkey’s Coup - Mahir Zeynalov, Huffington Post, November 5, 2016

The cleanup

Analysis