There’s now a very reliable intelligence report that the military coup against Turkish dictator Erdogan may have been for real and was instigated with foreign instructions, notably from the CIA, after he apologized to Vladimir Putin more than a week ago, for the unprovoked downing of one Sukhoi Su-24 jet fighter in Syria, late last year.

What is more interesting is that those two pilots involved in the shooting of the Russian warplane were also involved in the failed coup, and were subsequently arrested 2 days after the coup. Were the pilots given combat instructions from the US military base inside Turkey?
The answer to that question would be an affirmative, as Erdogan has already shifted his position to the preservation of President Assad in Syria, accordingly to an Iranian intelligent report.

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TEHRAN (FNA)- Arab media outlets quoted diplomats in Ankara as disclosing that Turkey’s President Erdogan was alerted by Russia against an imminent army coup hours before it was initiated on Friday, while a western media outlet said Erdogan asked his supporters to remain in the streets after receiving advice from Tehran.
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 its Russian counterpart 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.
Khmeimim in Northwestern Syria is the only Russian air force base in the war-ravaged country that provides cover for Syrian army and popular forces in multiple fronts across the country, in addition to bombing missions against terrorist targets. The Russian naval fleet, including its only aircraft carrier, are deployed along the coasts of Lattakia border province to provide logistical aid to the air base in a short time. Meantime, Russia has deployed its highly sophisticated S-400 air defense shield at Khmeimim and announced that it covers the entire Syrian skies with the same air defense system.
Last year, Turkey shot down a Russian Sukhoi bomber over Syrian skies and President Erdogan who was then a staunch enemy of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad rejected extending an apology to Moscow for about a year, although economic sanctions by Russia as well as growing victories by the Syrian army, popular forces, Hezbollah fighters, Iranian advisors and Russian air force that cornered the terrorists in Syria and similar victories against ISIL in Iraq convinced the Turkish president to not just apologize for the Sukhoi incident, but also show signs of a U-turn in foreign policy, saying that he is dropping his opposition to President Assad.
http://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13950430001452

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If these are the real facts on the ground, we can deduce that Erdogan’s frustration with NATO might be caused by one, or all of the following:

· EU’s flip-flopping on significant issues like what to do with the refugees that it has to deal with as European countries are shutting down their borders.

· The supposed $3 billion EU refugee fund that Turkey is asking may not have been delivered considering the financial turmoil plaguing the union. Instead,

· Germany’s Bundestag made an offensive by recognizing the Armenian Genocide, effectively shutting down Turkey’s chance for EU membership. The EU Parliament itself is requiring Turkey to recognize the Armenian Genocide as one of the preconditions to its EU membership.

· Erdogan may have felt he’s just being used for Syrian oil smuggling by Western interests, and the ultimate removal of Syrian President Assad, on top of the country being utilized as launching pad for military interventions in the region though the US military base.

With all of the above and the recent Brexit, Erdogan may have come to his senses and abandoned his EU membership ambition, hence the decision to also withdraw from his participation to the regime change being instigated in Syria through the CIA trained and funded Daesh terrorists, and his recent pivot to Russia.
The two pilots manning the cockpit of the F16 jet fighter used in the shooting down of the Russian plane last year were said to be working for the CIA and were the ones given the same instructions to kill Erdogan during the coup d’etat.
The two CIA pilots have since been arrested.


Four days after the coup, officials in Ankara announced that the two Turkish pilots who played a role in the downing of the Russian plane in November were in custody over the recent failed coup. “Two pilots who were part of the operation to down the Russian Su-24 in November 2015 are in custody,” a Turkish official told journalists on Tuesday, adding that they were detained over links to the coup bid.
Russian President Vladimir Putin called his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday, describing the attempted coup as unacceptable and voicing hope for a speedy return to stability.
The diplomatic sources said the shift in Erdogan’s foreign policy stated only a week before the coup has been “a major cause pushing several foreign states to provoke and promise support for the army to stage the coup, and the same shift also saved him” as it was not clear if the Russians would provide Ankara with their intel, otherwise.
Officials of neither country have made any comment on the report yet. In Ankara, official sources, including the Army itself, 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.”
In order to counter the coup, high ranking officials within the Turkish army gave orders for all air and ground forces around the country to immediately cease operations including military vehicles such as tanks, planes and helicopters.
http://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13950430001452

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Earlier reports, while the coup was still in progress, indicated that the coup plotters initiated the action ahead of schedule upon knowing that the plan was leaked to the authorities.
A report by Al-Jazeera Arabic suggests the coup plotters initiated the operation six hours ahead of time as they had previously planned to launch the coup at 3:00 a.m. local time on July 16.
While the report does not indicate the reason for the coup being initiated ahead of time, the revelation by the military suggests the coup plotters understood their plans had been compromised and decided to act.
Reports also suggest the coup plotters had orders to kidnap or kill President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as helicopters headed toward the hotel he was staying in at the holiday resort of Marmaris. But Erdogan had left 44 minutes before they arrived, according to Al-Jazeera’s report.
The official statements coming out from Ankara are in full compliance with the Arab media reports quoting the diplomatic sources on the Russian intel.
Only four days after the coup, Erdogan appeared on the media saying that he plans to declare a crucial turn in foreign policy that would “end differences with Turkey’s neighboring states”.
Less than a day later, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov announced that President Erdogan would visit Russia early in August to meet with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.

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The Iranian support was also very notable during the event. It must be understood that during the US embargo against Iran, it was Turkey that was helping Iran to survive economically through a bilateral exchange known as petrogold.

Couriers carrying millions of dollars worth of gold bullion in their luggage have been flying from Istanbul to Dubai, where the gold is shipped on to Iran, according to industry sources with knowledge of the business.

The sums involved are enormous. Official Turkish trade data suggests nearly $2 billion worth of gold was sent to Dubai on behalf of Iranian buyers in August. The shipments help Tehran manage its finances in the face of Western financial sanctions.

The sanctions, imposed over Iran’s disputed nuclear program, have largely frozen it out of the global banking system, making it hard for it to conduct international money transfers. By using physical gold, Iran can continue to move its wealth across borders.

http://in.reuters.com/article/us-emirates-iran-gold-idINBRE89M0SW20121023

So with this in mind, it’s very clear that Turkey is also trying to survive from CIA diktats when it was playing their dangerous games in the region. Iran is not shy on returning the favor.

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Meantime, Iran rushed to condemn the Turkish army coup only two hours after it started. Several top security and foreign policy officials in Tehran were in constant contact with President Erdogan and his cabinet ministers all throughout Friday.
As July 15 was coming to an end in Tehran, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif was on the phone with his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu, whose government was under the threat of being overthrown by a military coup. Meanwhile, Ali Shamkhani, the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), was on another line with security officials in Ankara. All the while, Qassem Soleimani, the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force, Iran’s regional military arm, was busy pursuing and reviewing various scenarios that might emerge.
“It’s not a secret anymore,” an Iranian official told Al-Monitor on condition of anonymity. “Zarif, Shamkhani and Soleimani were executing higher orders. The whole establishment was too concerned. Turkey is a neighboring state. President Erdogan and his government are strong partners of Iran. Our nations enjoy strong brotherly ties, so it’s the least we can do to show solidarity and try to offer any help they might need in such critical times.”
For the Iranians, the Turkey military coup isn’t something new. They have experienced it first hand during the time of Mosaddegh in 1953.
The official told Al-Monitor on condition of anonymity, “What we know is that this move was triggered by foreign hands. We went through the same in the past, and because Mr. Erdogan is today looking forward to playing a better role in the region, they want him down.” The Iranian official said, “There was a message that was conveyed to Turkish security officials: Don’t leave the streets. This coup might be made up of several waves; it happened in Iran in 1953. When the first coup failed, they had another one ready — and they succeeded.”
In Ankara, the government claims the coup and the generals behind it are loyal followers of US-based Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen, who was once Erdogan’s key ally before a major fallout in 2012. Many believe that Gulen is the main cause of why Ankara officials have repeatedly accused the US of masterminding the plot.

Considering that, the Middle East is ruled by warlords historically, and that the West has successfully assimilated all of them at one time, and lost some of them in some other times, most notable of whom was Saddam Huseein, it is very clear that it is losing another warlord again this time.
The recently released 28-pages implicating Saudi Arabia suggest the dirty game that is continuously being played against these warlords, considering the fact that it was the Bushes, Cheney and Israeli intelligence that were at the core of the WTC 911 false flag, and only the House of Saud is being pinned down. Erdogan must have read the writings on the wall.
He, too, is next in the line of Khazarian fire if he decides to turn his back on The Mafia as he’s already doing right now, according to the Iranian reports mentioned above.
However Saudi Arabia respond to this CIA treachery, on the other hand, is still anybody’s guess. Earlier, they have promised to retaliate by divesting their US dollar denominated investments across the globe.
With Russian and Iranian covert assistance, Turkey is taking the geopolitical offensive against the Mafia.

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Gulen is running a multi-billion dollar enterprise in Saudi Arabia and has grown into a serious bone of contention in Ankara-Riyadh ties. Saudi Arabia reserved condemnation of the coup in a suspicious move. Later, reports surfaced the media that the top brass in Riyadh and Abu Dhabi – two strong allies of the US with unbreakably intimate ties with each other in the Persian Gulf – were involved in the coup.
Saudi whistle-blower Mujtahid, who is believed to be a member of or have a well-connected source in the royal family, disclosed that senior government officials in Riyadh and Abu Dhabi had been informed of the coup in Turkey long before it took place.
Mujtahid wrote on his twitter page on Monday that the UAE leaders had played a role in the coup and the Turkish spy agencies have come to decode this involvement, adding that the UAE leaders had also alerted the Saudis about the impending coup.
“Saudi Deputy Crown Prince and Defense Minister Mohammad bin Salman had been informed of the military coup in Turkey,” Mujtahid wrote on his twitter page on Monday.
“There are reasons to prove that given his intimate relations with Mohammad bin Zayed bin Sultan Al-Nahyan (the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces), Mohammad bin Salman had been filled with information about this coup,” he added.
According to Mujtahid, Turkish intelligence agencies had received information about some negative collaboration between bin Salman and bin Zayed, but the Saudis managed to convince the Justice and Development party to rest assured and be optimistic about Riyadh’s actions.
He revealed that bin Salman has been trying to convince the Turks to conceal the UAE’s role in the coup and has promised a large amount of cash in retribution.
Last week’s coup in Turkey is now growing into a major regional confrontation over Turkey’s shift in its Syria policy now. If confirmed, the Russian and Iranian aid to Erdogan would mean the power balance and equations in the region ought to be redefined.

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Under a declaration of 3-month state of emergency, “the Turkish government has launched an unprecended crackdown on those suspected of being involved in the events of last week. Nearly 50,000 have been targeted as part of a purge, including military personnel, educators, judges, and civil servants. A state of emergency will, in theory, allow the Erdogan government to tighten its grip even further.”
The remaining question right now is:

· What’s going to happen to Daesh still trapped in the Syrian cities of Raqqa and Aleppo?

These developments are bringing the hybrid WW3 to a new level, and it’s not good for the Khazarian Mafia, as one Arab warlord after another departs from its fold.