How come that the Turkish President left the hotel where he was staying, over three dozen minutes before its assault coup — the question is interesting, but not the most important. Much more substantial that the presidential motorcade went not somewhere, and on a small local airfield from which flew Erdogan, the President of the Board, and on a private business jet. Because he is on bond and then went on Skype and not through the system of government communication, always available next to the first person on Board the presidential plane.
And hung this business jet in the air for over two hours at an average cruising speed of 800 km/h means the path length of at least 1,600 — 1,700 kilometers, which roughly corresponds to the flight from Istanbul to Rome.
The process of glorification of this flight has already started. According to the official version, private Board with Erdogan immediately secured for F-16 fighter of the Turkish air force, but soon they caught up with two other F-16 belonging to the coup. They were a long time “kept a gun on the President’s plane and stopped the operation of the communications equipment, but for some reason did not open fire.” After some time the guards managed to fight off the coup, and that’s when Erdogan for the first time and made contact on Skype.
Obviously, this version is sewn with white thread, but it allows you to imagine the Turkish President is a hero, who was in the middle of it, and just as Neo uvorachivatsya from a lot of flying of bullets. In fact, more like that the small private business jet was just hiding, and all who are on Board, it was very scary. Now this fear results in mass cleaning, which is inevitably under the hammer will fall and those who had to plot ratio, and those who just need to drunk to have expressed their dissatisfaction with the personality of Erdogan. And there were purges in the Turkish army certainly enough. You will not manage here and without petty personal revenge and the intrigues of competitors that will push under the repression and did really nothing the people involved. Business as usual after the failed coups.
Here only it means that for the next at least 5 — 7 years the Turkish army is very much losing its fighting capability. And that, like it or not, Putin and Russia are on hand.
