Delightful horror is a notion Edmund Burke used to define the sublime, that is “capable of producing delight, not pleasure … [not indifference, not grief, but] … a sort of tranquility tinged with terror”.  Defined as such, delightful horror runs in the background of this paper as a descriptive trait of the contradictory imperatives of an instinct for self-survival, individual freedom and subordination to various forms of power. With regard to the so called failed coup attempt in Turkey on July the 15th and 16th 2016,  Dr. Helvacioglo focuses on the implosion of a power struggle in every conceivable  echelon of life - institutional, political, religious, social, recreational and private . Such an immense implosion is incommensurate with any previous military interventions in Turkey since 1960. What is so civil in a civil war?  The region alluded to in this talk, Syria and its neighbours - the Levant in colonial times - is known as the place where the question of beginning originates, Dr. Helvacioglo offers some preliminary thoughts about the changing directions in an intransigent war diplomacy involving nation-states, armed wings of non-state groups, the supra-national organisations, NGOs, and infinitely rich, ancient differences among peoples that have been codified as ethnic and religious groups.