{"id":259658,"date":"2016-08-03T00:37:24","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T00:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=259658"},"modified":"2016-08-03T00:48:47","modified_gmt":"2016-08-03T00:48:47","slug":"turkey-says-obama-lies-u-s-behind-failed-coup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/turkey-says-obama-lies-u-s-behind-failed-coup\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey Says Obama Lies \u2014 U.S. Was Behind Failed Coup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

U.S. President Barack Obama has been resisting the demands of the Turkish government to extradite the person that Turkey alleges was behind the failed July 15th Turkish coup-attempt, and the Turks are now stepping up pressure against Washington by implying that Obama has been lying about Washington\u2019s advance knowledge regarding the coup.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Turkish government is preparing a formal extradition request to Washington regarding Fethullah G\u00fclen, the exiled Turkish cleric in Pennsylvania, whom the Turkish government alleges was behind the July 15th coup-attempt. The Turks are demanding that when the U.S. government receives it, their extradition request will quickly be complied with. <\/span><\/p>\n

G\u00fclen runs a global Islamic organization, which the Turkish government alleges carried out the coup-attempt. Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim has said<\/span><\/a>, \u201cThe files pertaining to their involvement in this coup attempt have not been sent yet. They will be sent and will leave no doubt whatsoever as to their involvement in this.\u201d So: the Turkish government has, in effect, indicated that they will tolerate no further delay in the extradition of G\u00fclen.<\/span><\/p>\n

Washington has said that no proof exists that G\u00fclen had anything to do with the coup. The \u201cfiles\u201d that Turkey is preparing to send, will present Washington with the same evidence that convinces the Turkish government of G\u00fclen\u2019s guilt. Therefore, if Washington disagrees with that, then the longstanding U.S. alliance with Turkey, which has been a NATO member since 1952, would almost certainly end, and Turkey could even leave NATO altogether. Turkey has been an essential part of NATO. So, the stakes in this matter are large.<\/span><\/p>\n

Considerable evidence has long been available, even in the West<\/span><\/a>, that the G\u00fclen organization is affiliated with the U.S. CIA; and, so, if the Turkish \u201cfiles\u201d include anything which indicates to Washington that the Turks can publicly \u201cspill the beans\u201d about such G\u00fclen-CIA involvement, Washington will virtually be forced to comply. But complying would mean a fundamental break away from the Turkish-American relationship which has existed since Turkey joined NATO in 1952.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

On Friday, July 29th, Reuters<\/a><\/span>\u00a0quoted Prime Minister Yildirim as responding in the following way to the U.S. government\u2019s admission that key CIA assets in Turkey are now in Turkish prisons, and are being charged with participating in the coup-attempt:<\/span><\/p>\n

“Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim echoed [President] Erdogan’s feisty tone: ‘This is a confession\u2019.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

This was being said by Yildirim in response to:<\/span><\/p>\n

“The director of U.S. national intelligence, James Clapper, said on Thursday the purges were harming the fight\u00a0against Islamic State in Syria and Iraq by sweeping away Turkish officers who had worked closely with the\u00a0United States. The head of U.S. Central Command, General Joseph Votel, said he believed some of the military figures\u00a0whom the United States had worked with were in jail.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The statement by Yildirim, that this constitutes \u201ca confession\u201d by the U.S. government, is a subtle way of warning Washington that, if Obama says no to Turkey\u2019s extradition-request, then Turkey has, and can make public, the evidence that Washington has been lying about this entire matter.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Reuters report noted further that, \u201cYildirim also said Turkey would shut down an air base near Ankara which served as a hub\u00a0for the coup plotters as well as all military barracks used by them.\u201d The Reuters report failed to state that this air base is America\u2019s Incirlik Air Base, but later in the story did note that, \u201cTurkey hosts U.S. troops and warplanes at Incirlik Air Base, from which the United States\u00a0flies sorties against Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria.\u201d The connection between that and \u201can air base near Ankara which served as a hub\u00a0for the coup plotters as well as all military barracks used by them\u201d wasn\u2019t made there, but the implications of this connection for the U.S.-Turkey-Saudi-Qatari-UAE-Kuwaiti effort to overthrow Syrian President Bashar al-Assad are significant: That U.S.-Saudi-led invasion of Syria will now have to end. Not only will the Western alliance\u2019s pathway sending jihadists into Syria now be terminated, but also U.S. control of this key NATO air base, Incirlik, will end \u2014 unless the Turkish Prime Minister\u2019s statement of Turkish government policy becomes reversed. The only person who could possibly reverse it is Turkey\u2019s President Tayyip Erdogan \u2014 the top man whom the coup had especially targeted to capture and perhaps kill.<\/span><\/p>\n

Turkey has been a vital ally of the U.S.-Saudi-Qatari-Kuwaiti operation to replace the secular pro-Russian Bashar al-Assad in Syria, by a pro-jihadist Sunni anti-Russian leader who will allow pipelines to be constructed through Syria into the European Union to replace Russian oil and gas there by Saudi oil and Qatari gas. Almost all of the tens of thousands of jihadists fighting in Syria have entered Syria through Turkey. Furthermore, the vital supply-lines of U.S. and other Western weapons and medical supplies to these jihadists, have also been entering through Turkey. Consequently, if the U.S. and its Saudi, Qatari, UAE, and Kuwaiti, allies, were to lose Turkey as being an ally in this operation, then the entire Western effort to remove Assad would fail, because all polling that has been done in Syria, even by Western pollsters, shows that Assad\u2019s public support there is well above 50%, and that no possible competitor against him in any free and fair election would come anywhere close to that percentage. (Indeed, polls show that overwhelming margins of the Syrian people loathe the jihadists \u2014 and loathe the U.S. for backing them.)<\/span><\/a> For this reason, too, U.N. Secretary General Ban ki-Moon has condemned the U.S. government\u2019s demand that Assad be removed from power and essentially replaced before any democratic process in Syria can be established<\/span><\/a>. America\u2019s demand for a dictatorship to be imposed that’s to America\u2019s liking, as a prerequisite for \u2018democracy\u2019 to become established there, has been repeatedly rejected by the U.N.\u2019s Secretary General.<\/span><\/p>\n

On 25 February 2016, RFK Jr. bannered\u00a0\u201cSyria: Another Pipeline War\u201d<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0and he documented, sometimes from Kennedy family archives, that the U.S. CIA has been trying since 1949 to overthrow the secular Syrian government and replace it with a sectarian Sunni one, which would allow the West\u2019s fundamentalist-Sunni allies to replace Soviet, subsequently Russian, oil and gas, by oil and gas which come from those fundamentalist-Sunni U.S. allies, that would cut the big Western oil companies in on the profits. The U.S. military is a vital arm of those oil companies, by supplying (at taxpayer expense) the force that enables those oil companies and their allied foreign leaders to prosper.<\/span><\/p>\n

As I headlined on 10 November 2015,\u00a0“Uprising against Assad was\u00a0Engineered in Washington\u201d<\/span><\/a>, and I reported that ever since Barack Obama first entered the White House on 20 January 2009, he secretly harbored the hope that he would be able to oust Assad. This was before the \u2018Arab Spring\u2019 even started. I later headlined\u00a0“Obama\u2019s Invasion Plan of Syria Was Drawn\u00a0Up by Kim Roosevelt in 1957\u201d<\/span><\/a>, but I didn\u2019t know then that that plan, which was drawn up by the same CIA operative who had organized the replacement of democracy by dictatorship in Iran in 1953, wasn\u2019t the first such CIA effort in Syria \u2014 that the first was actually in 1949.<\/span><\/p>\n

So: it seems that the failure of Obama\u2019s coup-attempt in Turkey will make impossible, for him, his aspiration to be the U.S. President who delivers Saudi oil and Qatari gas to the EU through Syria.<\/span><\/p>\n

“If at first you don\u2019t succeed, try try again,\u201d says an old adage. Under Obama, they did try again. And, yet again, it has (apparently) failed.<\/span><\/p>\n

Turkey is making preparations, just in case Obama says no to them.<\/span><\/p>\n

There is set to occur on August 9th in St. Petersburg a private meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin, and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n

Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of\u00a0 They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/i><\/span><\/a>,<\/i> and of<\/span> \u00a0<\/i>CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/i><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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