John Kerry Threatens Turkey With NATO Expulsion

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• Whether or not Erdogan staged the coup, I do not know. What is clear is that the BIG LOSER is US, NATO and CIA. Erdogan has now flipped to the side of Russia. The great news is that there is no likelihood that Turkey will invade Syria to trigger a Greater Middle East war.
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• John Kerry Threatens Turkey With NATO Expulsion
  by Tyler Durden, www.zerohedge.com  
  While the experts debate if Turkey’s flash coup was staged or merely grossly incompetent, a rather theatrical fallout is taking place between Turkey and the US.
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  Recall that on Saturday, as part of its populist campaign to blame the coup on the US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, Turkey accused the US of being “behind the military coup“, to which John Kerry promptly responded that such allegations are “utterly false” and harmful to relations. Kerry also said that authorities should respect the rule of law during their probe of the coup. Kerry also noted that there would be no prompt deportation of Gulen (something which is also in Erdogan’s favor), when he said that “we fully anticipate that there will be questions raised about Gulen, and obviously we invite the government of Turkey … to present us with any legitimate evidence that withstands scrutiny and the United States will accept that and look at it and make judgments appropriately,” he said.
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  This however did not lead to any moderation in Turkish rhetoric, and yesterday, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim threated to go to war with any country that would “stand by” the exiled Fethullah Gulen; this would naturally imply the US which is where Gulen is currently located. “The US is behind the coup attempt. A few journals that are published there [in the US] have been conducting activites for several months. For many months we have sent requests to the US concerning Fethullah Gulen. The US must extradite him,” said the Labor Minister in a statement.
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  Curiously, despite all the posturing, Turkey has yet to send out a formal extradition request.
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  However, the tensions between Turkey and US appear to have spilled over this morning, when moments ago John Kerry threatened Turkey that it could lose its NATO membership “if it fails to uphold the principles of democracy in the wake of an attempted coup” the US has warned. 
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