I just posted this 5 days ago, I was mostly kidding about the coup guys.
Actually, for the most part, I’m happy to see that military is still following its tradition of removing authoritative rulers. Turkey will be a lot better of without Erdogan. 13 years ago I had a business partner in Turkey. He and his wife left Ankara about six years ago and she all of her friends hate Erdogan with a passion. Her niece called earlier this morning to say that there were tanks on the street, my friend said they’ll know in the morning whether it succeeds. He also said that it appears most of the coups leaders, are colonels and brigadier generals since Erdogan has installed loyalist in the top positions.
A failed coup will make Erdogan much stronger. For those people, who think this is an awful thing, I’ll just point out that Russia would be far better off, if when Putin started to rewrite the constitution and installed his lapdog, Medvedev the military had couped him.