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15 July

Did Alparslan Kuytul congratulate the coup?

Did Alparslan Kuytul congratulate the coup?

Out of context

Claim

Alparslan Kuytul congratulated the coup on the night of 15 July.

Fact

Watching the video in full establishes the following:

  • He made the statements below while the events were still unfolding, and on a live broadcast, believing that what was happening was not an attempted uprising but a full coup like that of 1980.
  • At 23:30 on the night of 15 July he said: "Even though we criticise the AKP, we would not be pleased to see them brought down by a coup." He was the only person to state on live television that night that he was against the coup.
  • Even while criticising the AKP — criticism that is constructive and directed at injustice — he voiced his concern in the same statement: "We do not know what state the President is in. Since the General Staff has issued a statement, they must be in custody."
  • The words cropped to suggest he was celebrating read in full: "May God not bring upon our nation troubles it cannot bear. May He make this coup not a blow against Islamic activity, but a means by which that work is affected for the better and Muslims benefit." The coup having already happened, what he is plainly saying is: let at least some good come of it.
  • He closed with "forgive me my dues" — certain that he too would be arrested. As above, he was speaking in the belief that this was a coup like that of 1980, in which people from every quarter were detained, tortured and disappeared.
  • Despite all this, he stated his position faster than anyone else. What deserves recognition has instead been served up for years through videos cropped and torn from their context — by the very mainstream media whose job is to report accurately — and it continues to be.
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