CFR article from May 30th 2016: Turkey's Next Military Coup: How Empowering the Generals Could Backfire

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This article was written on May 30th, 6 weeks ago... clearly stating the Turkish military would not try and attempt a coup if they didn't have public support, and yet there was a coup attempt by the military with no public support and massive public support for Erdogan.

Strange things are certainly afoot... the CFR puts out a paper saying a military coup in turkey wouldn't work... and then there is a failed military coup in turkey which fails for exactly the reason the CFR says it will fail:



"For all this, the military does not seem particularly interested in intervening in the political processes, at least for now. After the public’s reaction to the e-coup, it seems to prefer to stay out of politics. The general staff recently issued a strongly worded statement categorically denying allegations from pro-government circles that the military was planning a coup. It further threatened legal action against those media outlets covering the news. The military has always relied on public support when it decided to intervene in politics. The 1980 military coup, the bloodiest military takeover in Turkish history, for instance, was highly supported by the public, which viewed military intervention as necessary to restore stability. But today, the military knows full well that any intervention against Erdogan and his AKP, which received almost 50 percent of the vote in the latest election, would win little public backing and crush the military’s efforts to reclaim its standing in society."