Turkish Democracy - on the brink

[Montmorency]

Timeline of the Coup Attempt

Without further study, my impression is that the incident was a military/Gulenist attempt at removing Erdogan, but it failed both because of the plotters' bungling and because Erdogan and his intelligence services had been forewarned and had a countercoup prepared. Erdogan did not crack down on the coup before it was launched in order to take advantage of the political fallout.