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Any source for "many assumed the US would try to overthrow him"? That would imply that this coup might actually have been initiated by the US (it wouldn't be t

by ZainRiz 10y ago

Any source for "many assumed the US would try to overthrow him"? That would imply that this coup might actually have been initiated by the US (it wouldn't be the first time the US caused a coup in another country)

calibraxis 10y ago
Yes, take David Graeber, who's written extensively on Turkey and the extraordinary revolutionary Kurds: https://twitter.com/davidgraeber/status/700436062469038080 https://twitter.com/davidgraeber/status/700436062469038080 and https://twitter.com/davidgraeber/status/754071680977399808 https://twitter.com/davidgraeber/status/754071680977399808 (Regardless of particulars — did the US initiate it? support it? simply signal they'd stand back and let a friendly coup happen? — he has a good predictive mental model.)