By Zubair Khan

• 1. Erdogan master minded it to further cement his ruthless and authoritarian grasp over the country.
• 2. Cleansing of all judges and prosecutors even remotely involved in his political posture.
• 3. Within hours of the collapse of the coup,
  – 2,745 judges have been dismissed by the Turkish ‘Judges & Prosecutors High Council’.
  – 10 members of Turkey’s highest Administrative Court have been arrested,  and also high Constitutional Court member Alparslan Altan.
  – Arrest warrants issued for a further 140 Appeals Court members and 48 Administrative Court members.
  – Turkish Air Force head Akin Ozturk has been arrested and charged with treason.
  –  About 3,000 other military personnel arrested.
  According to Turkish most popular Hurriyet newspaper, some of the soldiers who were detained told interrogators they were not aware that they were part of a coup attempt. They had been told by commanders they were taking part in military manoeuvres. Some said they understood that it was a coup attempt when they saw civilians climb on tanks.
  Seems that ‘coup soldiers’ closed the bridges and locked traffic, pushing people toward Taksim Square at midnight; hundreds of identical Turkish flags on sticks mysteriously appear.
  

  Erdogan has removed the two last hurdles on his way to absolute, supreme power: holdouts in Turkey’s judicial branch and in the army.The path forward for Erdogan  now all clear left with no domestic opposition whatsoever.

  Theory Two.  Followers of the US-based Turkish Islamist leader Fetullah Gulen for staging the abortive coup. 

  1. The state-run Anadolu news agency has pointedly named one Colonel Muharrem Kose who was dishonourably discharged from the Turkish military in March 2016 for his alleged links with Gulen, as the leader of the coup attempt.

  2. The Justice Minister also said on the state television that Gulen’s supporters have staged the abortive coup.

  3. Erdogan has been seeking the extradition of Gulen from the United States.

  4. Turkish considers  Gulen works for the US intelligence.

  5. A memoir by the former Turkish intelligence chief Osman Nuri Gundes,  published in 2011,  alleged that Gulen’s world-wide Islamic movement based in Pennsylvania provided cover for the Central Intelligence Agency, especially in the former Soviet republics in Central Asia.

  6, Interestingly, Russia subsequently banned Gulen’s ‘Hizmet’ schools’. So did Uzbekistan.

  7. Although Gulen fled Turkey in 1998 for the US, he obtained a residence permit only in 2008 and Turks have insistently claimed that his application for ‘green card’ was recommended by two top CIA officials. Gulen never traveled outside the US in the past 18 years since he landed on American soil, although his network has worldwide operations.

  Heated discussion has erupted all over. Which theory in fact sparked the so called abortive Coup. Matter will be clear in couple of days.