[dfwgator]

The bottom line seems to be that the coup leaders probably were no more secular, westernized, or anti-Islamist than Ergodan

That's because the coup leaders were working FOR Erdogan.

[ek_hornbeck]

That's because the coup leaders were working FOR Erdogan.

It's either that or they staged the most incompetent attempt at a coup ever executed. Don't most coup leaders at least try to capture/arrest the leaders they're trying to overthrow?