The coup was real, not faked. It is being called a fake coup by people who can’t admit that the “Arab Spring” CIA, whose record for coup making basically defines their mission, really screwed the pooch on this one. Levels of incompetence in govt bureaucracies have reached escape velocity. Top bureaucrats are selected, not on merit or qualifications, but on their capacity to set in motion hidden agendas, period.
We don’t know who was responsible for the coup attempt. Until it’s proven otherwise, we can’t discount that the US might have been involved. We were everywhere else, from northern Africa to Kiev. That one very big swath of destruction of civilization.
Think is what a combination of factors. The Turkish military was obviously planning their typical coup as Erdogan refused to abide by elections and was turning Islamic. Erdogan was anticipating the coup and may have even been instigating it as an excuse for the crackdown he was obviously planning. Erdogan was warned hours before the coup began. So a typical post modern clusterpuck. And yes you have to assume the US was involved in some fashion considering the recent past (Libya, Egypt, Syria and Ukraine).