Coup in Turkey

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Ka-pi96 said:

Slimebeast said:

1. They underestimated the enormous support by people in favor of Erdogan (probably inside the military aswell).

2. It's staged by Erdogan.

I believe in the first explanation.

And yes, if this was a genuine coup and it failed, it will be huge in strengthening Erdogan's power.

If it's #1 then they planned really poorly. They should have just targeted Erdogan directly. Found him (shouldn't have been too hard for military commanders to find out where the president is during regular times), and taken him out before they even let on it was a coup. Then regardless of what happens after that there would still be a new president.

Yeah it all seems pretty strange to me. Where were the infantry? All I've seen are groups of randomly placed tanks