It is scary to see a bunch of Americans supporting Erdogan and "praying for end to coup". It is REALLY scary. You can see the rhetoric getting people ready to send the kids to war again. They have started playing more films about kids going to war, and the "glory of serving your country". It is the build up to Iraq all over again. I am glad I am old enough to make the connections, and that luckily it is not yet so draconian in America that I can't post about this. But I have lived in Turkey and seen the censored Internet first hand. The blocked communications first hand. When CNN isn't reporting what is going on for some reason, and people on Facebook are confused as to why you are posting riot scenes from Istanbul, but the "real news" isn't reporting it.
CNN can't keep up the charade for much longer. They are VERY much complicit in all this.
I remember in 2013, they were blacking out the Gezi protests until everyone else had finally started covering them.
John Kerry...
John Kerry will be shown to be at the center of all this on the US side.
Why Kerry?
He was the one making the deals with Putin. John Kerry is at the center of the international meetings that will likely be shown to have been the source of the failed coup. Erdogan had planned the purge of his military, judicial system, and education system before the coup. The timing is too convenient, and at that Kerry has direct involvement being the one who went representing US to fund Kurdish rebels the DAY BEFORE the coup attempt.
He is the Secretary of State, so that certainly makes sense. I'm no expert, but Erdogan has been purging his government and military for a while now, no? This seems to be a final push of sorts...a convenient way to oust the rest of his enemies.