So this has already been a coup of the post-kemalist turkish army formed by Erdogan and his (former) allies? I was hoping that claims of the coupists being Gülen followers were just attempts to put a kemalist attempt into a bad light ("islamic terrorsist"), but then maybe I and, I guess, many other casual outside observers have been underestimating the amount of change that has already happened since the last time the army has acted as a weird but reliable consitutional safeguard.
Yes, and the unfortunate thing is that it is Erdogan and his government that made this possible but the people will likely not remember how these people where best buddies and how their undermined every possible institution in Turkey in order to suppress the seculars in the army. But they never thought while they were throwing hundreds of officers into prison, Gulen's movement were pushing their people into the right places. In Summary these "genius" in the government never saw what was really happening, it took them 12 years(!) to understand what's going on, and now they have to figure out how to weed out all these sleeping cells.
It is true that the situation is much more complicated then what it seems, and the irony is that Erdogan will likely seek the help of his old enemies, the seculars in the army to clean this mess up.
