Robert Fisk: “It Won’t Be Long before another Coup Succeeds in Turkey

British writer and journalist Robert Fisk has expected Turkey to face another coup soon, but this time it will be successful.

In an article published by “The Independent” British newspaper on Saturday under the title “Turkey’s coup may have failed – but history shows it won’t be long before another one succeeds,” Fisk said that Erdogan did realize the cost of the role he had chosen for his country too late. “When you can no longer trust your army, there are serious issues that need to be addressed,” he added.

 “Recep Tayyip Erdogan had it coming. The Turkish army was never going to remain compliant while the man who would recreate the Ottoman Empire turned his neighbours into enemies and his country into a mockery of itself,” Fisk clarified.

He went on to say that Turkey took the path of a “failed state” when it complied with the American orders to send weapons and ammunitions to the terrorists in Syria and to have its intelligence service cooperating with extremists there.

The British writer held Erdogan responsible for the military coup attempt in his country as he turned into a “real dictator” after he has changed the country’s constitution to serve his own interest.

 He said “it would be a grave mistake to assume two things: that the putting down of a military coup is a momentary matter after which the Turkish army will remain obedient to its sultan; and to regard at least 161 deaths and more than 2,839 detained in isolation from the collapse of the nation-states of the Middle East.”

According to Fisk, two thousand or so arrests are quite a coup for Erdogan – rather larger, in fact, than the coup the army planned for him. “But they must be just a few of the thousands of men in the Turkish officer corps who believe the Sultan of Istanbul is destroying his country,” he stressed.

 It’s not just a case of reckoning the degree of horror which Nato and the EU will have felt at these events. The real question will be the degree to which his momentary success will embolden Erdogan to undertake more trials, imprison more journalists, close down more newspapers, kill more Kurds and, for that matter, go on denying the 1915 Armenian genocide, said Fisk.

Hamda Mustafa