Supporters of Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, protest in Istanbul’s Taksim square. The government has made 120 arrest so far,on charge of plotting to over through the government.(AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)
It was a strangely 20th century coup, defeated by 21st century technology and people power.
When a self-styled military “Peace Council” tried to topple Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and his increasingly authoritarian government on Friday night, the rebel generals and colonels seemed to be fighting the last war.
“This coup was obviously planned quite well but using a playbook from the 1970s,” said Gareth Jenkins, a researcher and writer on military affairs based …read more
Source: The Indian Express
