I’m not one to buy into conspiracy theories but I wonder. One report said coup only had about 100 troops behind it. One thing for sure if it was legit and failed the regime will go full Morsi.
Quote===>. “Erdogan called the coup a “gift from God” because it will help Turkey clean out the military from the “members of this gang.” The timing of the coup was “meaningful,” because the military will start meetings in the beginning of August, and those who staged the coup were afraid of the decisions that would be made at those meetings, Erdogan said.
This is not old Turkey,” he said. “This is new Turkey.”<===
http://abcnews.go.com/International/attempted-military-coup-underway-turkey/story?id=40618135
Turkish airlines tweeted to rise up and resist coup