While I agree with the view that Erdogan/AKP might be the worst thing that happened to Turkey, the people behind the coup in 2016 wouldn't make things any bette

While I agree with the view that Erdogan/AKP might be the worst thing that happened to Turkey, the people behind the coup in 2016 wouldn't make things any better. The group behind the coup had a perfectly happy marriage with AKP until around 2013, and both of them being islamic groups together they destroyed whatever they could from the previously mostly-secular state. [1] Whatever you see as a problem in Turkey today (say, non-existent separation of powers, human rights abuses, journalists in jail, collapsed legal system, government censorship, economic troubles... and a long list of other things) had their beginnings in this period. Most of the power they amassed in Turkey was the direct result of this alliance with AKP, and their people filled the government posts while AKP replaced the old guard. After 2013, as a result of internal power struggles this alliance broke up, and in 2016 this organization attempted the coup you mentioned. If they had their way, power would be shifted from one islamic political organization (AKP) to another ("Cemaat"/The Service/FETO or whatever people call them nowadays) who has even less legitimacy. Anyways, sorry for the wall of text on this comparatively trivial matter, it's just that I find it unfortunate that those guys are now being seen/depicted as some kind of failed saviours in the western media, while in reality they are anything but. [1] which was maintained under the shadow of the army and wasn't nowhere near perfect either. Though I'd personally take that one over this one any day.