Three reasons why ‘the coup appears to have failed’
Gulnur Aybet, head of the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the Centre for Security Studies at Bahcesehir University in Istanbul, tells the BBC World Service that the reasons for the coup’s apparent failure are:
A relatively low number of solders took part
Senior commanders were outspoken in condemning it
People came out onto the streets to oppose it
Now Erdogan is going to go full Islamcrazy. And many people will die and suffer.
And the soldiers did not shoot the sh*t of the people who turned out to oppose the coup.