What was all this about? Was the military trying to restore secular government?
An element within the military. To embolden them, the leaders of this coup were told that the entire military was behind them, that they had massive support among the troops and the command structure.
They stepped into the trap.
What disgusts me is that NATO, and possibly even the U.S., provided military support to Erdogan during this. Otherwise, he would not have landed at the airport in Istanbul last night.
Edrogen is a dictator in the making. A successful coup would have been a plus for us.
But they left the radios on, they left the TVs on, and the did not shoot Edrogen at the outset.