Chapter 532: The Turkish Coup
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General Mazyer's patience was finally exhausted by the American aircraft carrier incident. When the Stanisk carrier battle group remained in the waters off Marmara, the Turkish military's last expectations for President Demirel were exhausted. And General Mazyer gave the final order to overthrow the Turkish government and order the other side to step down.
Then Yanayev also waited in the Kremlin for the final reply of the Turkish military. When he picked up the phone and his name was announced, Yanayev breathed a sigh of relief. It seems that everything will end at this moment.
Yanayev sat on the sofa and listened quietly to the other man's speech. Also beside him at this time were the first chairman of the KGB, Comrade Kryuchkov, Comrade Vladimir, Minister of Defense Yazov. They are all waiting for a final reply from the Turkish military, which is not a simple coup d'état, but a subversive operation within the Turkish army in cooperation with the Soviet government in Moscow.
The aim was to stop Demirel from playing with fire and to ease external tensions. And this is also Yanayev's last card to solve the Turkish problem. The Soviet Union did everything possible to create a dispute over the Kurdistan Workers' Party in the east and attract the attention of the Turkish government and the United States, but in fact it was quietly operating the Turkish army's secret chess. It's only now that it's been put on the surface.
Presumably, President Mario's face will be very ugly tomorrow.
"The Turkish side has two demands, first, that after we overthrow the Demirel regime, the Black Sea Fleet and your bomber formations will immediately withdraw from the Black Sea region, and we will also declare the arbitration null and void. Second, if the USSR abandons aid to the PKK in the east, we will also null and void the US treaty on the deployment of anti-missile systems in Turkey. ”
These two points raised by General Mazyel were very much in the interests of the Soviet Union, and Yanayev nodded and agreed to General Mazyel's request. Still, he appropriately reminded the other party, "Oh yes, there is one more thing, and that is the Soviet aid to the Kurdistan Workers' Party, which we have already cut off." But we can't control Öcalan's movements. In other words, the current PKK is not within our control. ”
"I know that." General Maziel replied calmly. Everyone knows about political deals, and he won't specifically break them.
"I wish you success, General Mazyer." Yanayev said.
The phone was hung up, and Yanayev knew that Ankara was now facing a bloody storm. He closed his eyes, took a deep breath, slowly exhaled the depression that had been building up in his chest for more than two weeks, and said to the people around him, "The last move has been completed, now it depends on the performance of the Turkish military." ”
The frowning brows of the people around him relaxed, and they clapped their hands in celebration. Yanayev leaned back on the sofa and recalled every step of the operation, which was thrilling.
"Oh yes, Comrade Kryuchkov." Yanayev turned around and did not forget to make up for the Turkish government, "Let the KGB-linked agents of Ecalan rule the Kurdistan Workers' Party, and the Turkish government is about to have civil strife, they can have a grand show." ”
At one o'clock in the morning, the calm Turkish streets were broken by a riot, and the people were horrified to see a neat row of M60 tanks appear on the silent street, their turrets invariably aimed in the direction of the presidential palace. Turkish forces silently and quickly took control of the streets around Ankara, with heavily armed soldiers setting up checkpoints at intersections to block the streets leading to the Turkish presidential palace.
General Mazyer's coup d'état was swift and determined: to take down the uncontrolled President de Mirel. Because of his cooperation with the United States, he will become more unstable and uncontrollable than it was in 1980. In the event that it is not in the interests of the Turkish military, Demirel must be removed from the presidency.
As the tanks advanced to the vicinity of the presidential palace, there was a skirmish with the guards of the presidential palace. The presidential guards tried to stop these steel behemoths of 105mm rifled guns with submachine guns and automatic rifles. But in the face of a dozen tanks with 12.7-caliber machine guns, these revolts seem to be a bit of a mantis.
The M60 tanks turned their turrets and aimed at the gates of the Presidential Palace, and when the advice failed, they decided to use the most resolute means of force to blow open the gates of the Presidential Palace.
An armor-piercing shell erupted from the barrel of the gun and hit the brightly lit presidential palace building. The sound of a strong explosion accompanied by the light of the fire illuminated the dark sky, and the entire presidential palace shook, and the powerful impact directly rushed out the guards guarding the gate.
At the same time, the loud explosion woke President Demirel from his big bed.
"What's going on?"
Demirel got up from the big bed sleepily, and before he could turn on the bedside light. The presidential guard hurried in with rifles in hand and said to Demirel, "Your Excellency, it's not good. The troops staged a coup d'état. They were preparing to storm the presidential palace. ”
"What?" Demirel immediately fell asleep, he hurriedly put on his slippers and quickly got out of bed to hide. Demirel quietly poked his head out of the window, just in time to see the army downstairs surrounding the presidential palace, and at least twelve M60 tanks appeared in Demirel's field of vision, compared to the presidential palace guards, who were no match for the coup soldiers.
The outermost soldiers had surrendered, and the coup army quickly broke into the interior of the presidential palace, bringing the situation under control with little bloodshed. Only Demirel was left with a handful of guards loyal to the president who continued to resist. But in the face of settlement, their rebellion seems more like a mayfly shaking a tree.
When the gunfire outside the door stopped, Demirel closed his eyes in despair, knowing that it was all over. The coup d'état was without any warning, and to this day, he thinks the military is an ally with him.
With a wave of his hand, Demirel told the guards protecting him to drop their guns and surrender to the army. But before the guards could take half a step out of the door, several heavily armed soldiers had already rushed in to control the situation in the president's bedroom. The guards next to Demirel raised their hands and motioned for the other party not to shoot.
Next, the figure of General Mazyel appeared at the door of the president's bedroom, he glanced at the pale President Demirel, and said unhurriedly, "Hello, President Demirel." I didn't expect us to meet on such an occasion. (To be continued.) )