So apparently Russia saved Erdogan's ass from the coup. Iranian media says Russian MOD intercepted some calls between the units planning to take part in the coup and managed to warn Erdogan some time before his assasination was planned.
Several Arab media outlets quoted diplomatic sources in Ankara as saying that Turkey's National Intelligence Organization, known locally as the MIT, received intel from the Russian army 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.
Christopher Garcia
Officials of neither country have made any comment on the report yet. In Ankara, official sources, including the Army iteself, confirmed that the Turkish army’s top generals had been informed of last week’s coup by the MIT hours before the plot came into action.
A statement issued by the army on July 19 described the events that took place on July 15, saying a majority within the military managed to suppress the coup attempt due to information provided by the MIT some five hours before the coup plot became public, national newspaper Hurriyet reported.
“The information given by the National Intelligence Organization on July 15, 2016, at around 4:00 p.m. was evaluated at the General Staff headquarters with the attendance of Chief of Staff General Hulusi Akar, Chief of the Army General Salih Zeki Colak and Deputy Chief of Staff General Yasar Guler."
Landon Nelson
Ok, I'll bump some more.
Sebastian Parker
come on, don't say this is not interesting
Nathaniel Price
alright, last bump
Camden Morris
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Eli Collins
bump interesting...
Juan Butler
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Ethan Flores
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Gabriel Martinez
youtube.com/watch?v=UggpykXm-Jc Shirwan was right Putin wants to be a friend to authoritarian governments in the world. They even showed now that they are willing to help even their enemy, as long as his stance is agains secularism.
Mason Myers
it just means they are complicit in the false flag for erdogan, there wasnt any real "coup"
Look at this angsty finngolian, would rather be drown in hambergers than concede russkis did the right thing by cockblocking the westenr military-industrial complex
Ayden Rodriguez
>So apparently Russia saved Erdogan's ass from the coup fucking hell
Isaiah Adams
Since it most likely it was a Gulan coup turkey would have been turned into ISIS territory if the coup had been succesfull. It had nothing to do with seculuralism.
Grayson Carter
дa ты пoлный ypoд пидopишкa. I just know that It ain't that nice living outside russias city hubs, and yeah strong russia makes me more scared than strong america. They have lots less levarage geopolitically than slavs have over us.
Alexander Bell
Russia cucked America King Nigger again! Now Turkey is allied with Russia and hates America what a twist! Is there anything Putin cannot accomplish?
Nathan Anderson
Why would Russia save erdogans ass? Explain ivan...
Colton Hughes
we need them to go full ottoman.
Jose Jackson
Thats a good point. But it still doesn't erase the fact that Putin helped a state that just recently was waging proxy war with them.
Zachary Murphy
Threadly reminder
Blake Cooper
Stops them aligning with the EU
Brody Morris
yeah but... yeah but...
Now turkey becomes north korea Maybe some turkey ninjas are still up to the job for round#2
James Lopez
Pretty sure they won't care if they can turn a NATO ally to their side.
Lincoln Reed
Obviously, Erdogan is the worse path for Turkey. So it makes sense that the Russians would make him stay there.
Anthony Sullivan
Iranian news aren't really reliable.
Carter Harris
>It ain't that nice living outside russias city hubs Why would you even do that?
Carter Murphy
Around half the population are "radicals" (normal Muslims) that support estrogen, so if they took him out there'd be a civil war between them and the seculars sending millions of Turkish refugees flooding Europe along with the "Syrians"
Jaxon Miller
The coup was the shittiest coup attempt in history. It wouldn't have succeeded regardless of this information even if it's true. It wasn't even a genuine attempt, just Fearless Leader putting people against people to take absolute power.
Benjamin Lee
Thats exactly what I was thinkging too, and why Im getting spooked.
Samuel Mitchell
Tell me though Turk, our media is telling us everyone over there is too retarded to even raise serious questions about fake coup.
And when you ask questions, you get beaten up by Erdogan worshippers that make up 98% of the Turkish population. Is that true?
Gabriel Thompson
> b-but muh ruski kebab remover
Leo Adams
Thanks. In Turkish sources they never mention Russia, but they say MIT intercepted.
Zachary Phillips
fall of communism and family :S
Alexander Myers
What did he mean by this?
Sebastian Morales
> le american isis meme
Jose Rivera
Wait, he posted it days before the coup?
Joseph Jones
Putin is waiting for Trump to take office to start chaos in Turkey and retake Constantinople
Austin Nguyen
And you are proud with letting an islamist in power?
Logan Reyes
the monarchy should've never been toppled, Russia was hellbent on taking Constantinople and had been fighting the ottomans tooth and nail since the creation. While other European powers had "better" things to do. Didn't one of your empresses name their son "Constantine" or something as well?