There was a coup attempt by the Turkish military to overthrow long time Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan. As Ralph Peters surmised on Fox News, it seems that it was undertaken by lower ranks of the Turkish military as a last ditch attempt to save secular society from an Erdogan inspired Islamization by the few forces which have not been purged by the autocratic Erdogan.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and President Obama have come out in favor of supporting the duly elected government in Turkey. Hence, their support of Erdogan was for the winner of a a one party election which is rapidly overhauling Attaturk's secular state with one that is more sharia compliant, for an official who has backed Obama bete noir Assad in Syria and who complicated military tactics in overthrowing Iraq's Saddam Hussein in 2003.
As Erdogan's flippant appraisal of the Streetcar of Democracy shows: Turkish Democracy is here today and Erdagon tomorrow. Next stop, Berlin 1933!
