Was the US behind the coup?

As time passes, we will be able to better grasp what kind of threat we have overcome along with the coup danger on the night of July 15.

It is obvious that this was not an ordinary coup attempt. Therefore, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan emphasized "the occupying forces."

Evidently, the coup attempters are Gülenist Terror Organization (FETÖ) members. But they are not alone. Some other officers were also talked into the coup attempt through opposition to Erdoğan. I am sure the details of how such cooperation was formed will be unveiled soon. But the answer to this question is the most curious aspect at the moment: Did the coup attempters receive any support from outside?

This may be the most controversial issue of the following period since the issue is not only highlighted by small-scale, anti-imperialist, left-wing groups as in the past. It is on the agenda of the government and the ruling party.

In his latest speech, Erdoğan referred to occupying forces and a "superior mind," which is not incidental. Maybe the clearest and strictest statement in this regard came from Labor and Social Security Minister Süleyman Soylu. A day after the coup attempt, Soylu addressed the public on Habertürk.

"We could not express all this if we were buried," he said. "Had the coup attempt succeeded, we

would be dead today. I am uttering these words, assuming that we would be dead. The U.S. is behind this coup." By referring to the FETÖ, he justified his claim as follows: "From whom did this gang of vagrants take the courage of flying the jets? Who revealed the coup rumors within the recent month? No one should say that this is a coincidence. We know what lies behind the coup."

Soylu also alleged that the interests of the U.S. are watched in the incidents that take place in southeastern Turkey, Syria and Iraq. "I personally oppose a mindset that keeps a psychopath like Fethullah Gülen for its own interests. Our relations with the U.S. have always been on friendly terms. If the U.S. is really sincere in this friendship, it must display the same affinity to us."It is known that many coups around the world were supported by the U.S. The latest example of this was witnessed in Egypt. But the most striking one was the ousting of socialist President Salvador Allende in 1973 in Chile, who was democratically elected. Although years have passed, the method remains the same. No matter who the democratically elected one is, socialist or conservative, the ruling power is dismissed in a coup if the U.S. so wants. Look at the claims of the opposition that favored a military intervention in Chile. They sound familiar: "Allende violates the constitution and endeavors to found a dictatorship."

These are typical U.S. operation methods. We learned from a telephone conversation between then U.S. President Richard Nixon and then Secretary of State Henry Kissinger on Oct. 9, 1973, how the U.S. responded to the coup in Chile, staged by the fascist General Augusto Pinochet in September 1973.

During the telephone conversation, Nixon expressed his content over the success of the coup and said that they created the necessary conditions for the success of the coup.

I wonder what kind of a telephone conversation U.S. President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry had in the aftermath of July 15. We may soon learn from WikiLeaks documents that the U.S. has found out that Erdoğan is not like Allende.