US has role in failed coup attempt in Turkey: Analyst
Last month’s failed coup attempt in Turkey may have been designed to expose Washington’s true intentions in the country, says a former US Army officer in San Francisco, California.
The government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has blamed Washington for playing a role in the failed attempt on July 15, 2016.
Even before this incident, the Pentagon ordered families of US troops and civilian personnel deployed in southern Turkey to leave the region for security reasons.
The coup attempt “has exposed the US hand as playing a role, at least in the US Central Intelligence [Agency] circles and senior military circles in at least tolerating, if not empowering, planning and executing part of this coup that occurred in Turkey,” said Scott Bennett, a former US Army psychological warfare officer and counter-terrorism analyst.
“So I think Turkey’s suspicion and Erdogan’s hostility towards the United States is quite pronounced and is quite justified and will only increase,” Bennett told Press TV on Monday.
“The coup that did occur was either a tremendous failure by those who planned it or a tremendous trap that Erdogan himself executed in order to expose the United States and its senior military for what they really are,” he added.
The coup “had the desired effect of exposing the United States as being permissive if not hostile towards Erdogan,” he said.
Following the overthrow attempt, Ankara reportedly cut off electricity to the strategic Incirlik Air Base, used by the US to conduct airstrikes against Daesh terrorists in Iraq and Syria.
According to a Washington think tank, a large number of American nuclear weapons stored at the air base are at risk of being seized by "terrorists or other hostile forces."
The Pentagon has stored about 50 atomic bombs at Incirlik in southern Turkey, about 110 kilometers from the border with Syria, where Washington and Ankara are engaged in a proxy war against the country, providing support to terrorist groups fighting against the Syrian people and government.
The United States is purportedly maintaining the stockpile of nuclear weapons at Incirlik as a deterrent to Russia and to demonstrate Washington’s commitment to NATO.
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