“Did you see the size of the crowd?”
I watched all night, but most crowds I saw confronting the Army consisted of a few hundred - like those that took the Bosphorus bridge, and those that took the Attaturk Airport. There may have been a bunch of civilians in a big square or park, but the crowds that I saw taking tanks and such mostly looked to me more like undercover cops and young jihadis than the general public.
Erdogon addressed a crowd - he went into the crowd and addressed the crowd. At least one or two thousand, at least, thronging in to the area.
Some of the people coming out were suicidal. Saw a video of an armored vehicle mowing down half a dozen fairly horrifically. The crowd more and less kept running after the vehicle and did not care much for the flattened bodies.