I think there may have been a very small anti-Erdogan group in the military and they were coaxed by pro erdogan higher ups to launch a coup. When you look at all the events leading up to and during the coup I think its quite obvious that Erdogan knew what was going on every step of the way.


I mean just look back to Nazi Germany i.e the Reichstag Fire. The year Hitler was made Chancellor of Germany a huge fire broke out in the Reichstag building (Parliament building). A young communist was "found" at the scene and he and a group of other communists were sentenced in a huge media covered trial. Hitler used this event to prove that the communists were out to get Germany and it basically resulted in him being made all powerful dictator(few more parts to that but its basically what happened). Pretty similar false flag operations.

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