David Boyajian
Turkey seems fond of so-called ‘false flag’ operations. In 1955, for example, the Turkish government covertly
bombed its own consulate in Thessaloniki, Greece and blamed it on
Greeks. The following day, Turkey stage-managed massive anti-Greek riots in Istanbul that killed over a dozen Christians and caused hundreds of millions in damage.
Fast forward to March 2014. A leaked audiotape caught Turkish officials plotting
to stage ‘false flag’ military attacks on their own territory and blame
them on Syrians. Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu, General
Yaşar Gürel, and Intelligence chief Hakan Fidan planned to use the
attacks as an excuse to invade Syria. The title of this article could
easily apply to that plot.
To close observers of the Caucasus, however, it could also describe a
failed covert Turkish plan to attack Armenia two decades ago and turn
the geopolitics of the region upside down.
