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Here is a chart that describes the practical steps: https://embed.gyazo.com/4324b66e1a3045ad63349061a76f4756.png https://embed.gyazo.com/4324b66e1a3045ad6334906

by majani 10y ago

Here is a chart that describes the practical steps: https://embed.gyazo.com/4324b66e1a3045ad63349061a76f4756.png https://embed.gyazo.com/4324b66e1a3045ad63349061a76f4756.png According to that illustration, the coup plotters missed the crucial step of breaching the president's residence and capturing him. They completely mistimed the coup when the president was on vacation outside the country. Now he has been able to rally support against the coup and his supporters are on the streets protesting against the army

tobias3 10y ago
He was reportedly on holiday in Turkey in Marmaris, so maybe they did not know where he was or did not have the man power to capture him. I wonder how it would have played out if they had captured him. I can even imagine that more people would have protested.
- einrealist 10y ago
  Its funny how Putin and Erdogan were meeting a couple of days ago. Maybe Erdogan was warned and took "a vacation"?
  - adventured 10y ago
    It was widely noted in the media that France closed its Turkish embassy (on "security fears") two days prior to this. It certainly makes you wonder if the word didn't get out.
    - ChristianBundy 10y ago
      It's important to remember that those "security fears" were in reference to Bastille Day.
- int_19h 10y ago
  Deliberately timing coups for when the standing leader is on vacation is actually not all that uncommon, because it makes it possible to contain them under pretense of normalcy. E.g. Gorbachev in 1991, where they basically locked him up in his Crimean residence.
internaut 10y ago
You might be speaking too soon. The media is reporting his plane landed at an airport a few minutes ago, so if it is in the hands of the military then he will be captured. Time like this though, don't believe anybody or anything you hear, including me.
elcapitan 10y ago
Where is that chart from, from the book mentioned a few comments above?
- elcapitan 10y ago
  Update: Ok, yes, found it via Image Search: http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-how-to-execute-a-coup-2013-7?IR=T http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-how-to-execute-a-coup-2...

by majani 10y ago

tobias3 10y ago

He was reportedly on holiday in Turkey in Marmaris, so maybe they did not know where he was or did not have the man power to capture him. I wonder how it would have played out if they had captured him. I can even imagine that more people would have protested.

einrealist 10y ago
Its funny how Putin and Erdogan were meeting a couple of days ago. Maybe Erdogan was warned and took "a vacation"?
- adventured 10y ago
  It was widely noted in the media that France closed its Turkish embassy (on "security fears") two days prior to this. It certainly makes you wonder if the word didn't get out.
  - ChristianBundy 10y ago
    It's important to remember that those "security fears" were in reference to Bastille Day.
int_19h 10y ago
Deliberately timing coups for when the standing leader is on vacation is actually not all that uncommon, because it makes it possible to contain them under pretense of normalcy. E.g. Gorbachev in 1991, where they basically locked him up in his Crimean residence.

internaut 10y ago

You might be speaking too soon. The media is reporting his plane landed at an airport a few minutes ago, so if it is in the hands of the military then he will be captured. Time like this though, don't believe anybody or anything you hear, including me.

elcapitan 10y ago

Where is that chart from, from the book mentioned a few comments above?

elcapitan 10y ago
Update: Ok, yes, found it via Image Search: http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-how-to-execute-a-coup-2013-7?IR=T http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-how-to-execute-a-coup-2...