As I understand how their government is setup that makes sense. When the coup happened I said I was for the coup if it was a good thing for the people and not another case of just throwing out a legit government to replace it with a corrupt one. I was informed on that day by Turkish posters here that it was legit. They are a Republic like pretty much every government that claims to be a Democracy (including the U.S.) but they have 4 branches instead of three. One of those branches is the military of which all citizens must at some point serve in. That branch as I understand it does not answer to the President, etc. As I understand it elements in that military branch were not happy with a lot of the Presidents leaning towards support of Islamic radicals and such and they sought to remove him from office. Now about a week later I am not sure what to believe. Some indicate the U.S. may be YET again monkeying around in internal affairs of other foreign nations. Whether this is true or not I have no clue. At this point it is really murky and I am uncertain what is legit and what is propaganda.

EDIT: Yet that night I saw the helicopter firing on civilians on that highway too. And I was under the impression that might have been the established government firing on civilians. I also don't recall seeing any of those civilians actually getting hit and falling. I commented on that last week.