On the 16th, the Turkish authorities announced that the coup launched by the military had subsided, arrested nearly 3000 suspects suspected of instigating the military coup, and ordered the detention of thousands of judicial personnel. So what is the reason for the failure of the Turkish coup? How to deal with the soldiers who failed the coup in Turkey? Let me answer them one by one.
One of the four reasons for the failure of the coup in Turkey is the lack of public opinion
The Turkish army participating in the coup dispatched M-60 tanks and m-113 armored vehicles.
On July 14, the aftermath of the terrorist attack on nice National Day in France was not over, and Turkey made another big news. In the process of Western political management, there is a complete and orderly system of party rotation and government change. Military coup d'etat has always been regarded as the most undesirable extreme means because of its destructiveness and uncontrollability. In today's world, there is almost no precedent for countries above the medium level to successfully realize political rule through a separate military coup.
On the evening of July 15, some officers of the Turkish army launched a coup in the capital Ankara, first detaining the top military general Askar, and then controlling the general staff. The M113 tanks attacked the parliament building and the M113 armored vehicles attacked the parliament. The coup took place simultaneously in Istanbul, Turkey's largest city, 450 kilometers away from the capital. The army closed the sea crossing bridge on the Bosporus Strait and controlled Ataturk International Airport. The coup army claimed to control the state power and set up a "Peace Commission" through the controlled state television, CNN and other media
The coup process, which lasted less than 12 hours, was spread in real time by means of the Internet, making people dizzying and unable to judge. So was the coup a success or a failure? What are the reasons for the results?
There is no doubt that the coup failed. This result was reached when the author saw the scene photos in the morning. Unlike many countries, the Turkish army not only plays the role of safeguarding national sovereignty and security, but also undertakes the important task of ensuring that the country moves along the right path. In the process of social development in Turkey, secularization and religiosity are two distinct paths. The Turkish army unswervingly stood on the side of secularization and did not hesitate to launch four coups in an attempt to reverse the direction of the country. The author has no intention of judging the advantages and disadvantages of the two directions, but only analyzes why it will not succeed this time from the perspective of coup behavior.
First of all: there is no consensus among the top military leaders due to hasty action. We have no way to know the specific number of military participants in the coup that took place on the evening of the 15th. But first of all, the act of detaining and holding military leaders and the general staff clearly shows that the coup force is a minority. Senior military leaders are divided over the overthrow of Erdogan's regime by force. Although the simultaneous action of Ankara, the capital, and Istanbul, the largest city, proved that the coup had been carefully planned and effectively implemented, this isolated army could not get any support, even if it was an army colleague. During the Ankara operation, the Turkish police first became the opponents of the coup army.
Since Erdogan took office in 2002, he has continuously divided and cracked down on the influence of the military on Turkey's political management. Especially in 2005, after the fourth military coup was stillborn due to intelligence leakage, the military image suffered an unprecedented blow at the cost of life imprisonment for the commander-in-chief of land, sea and air. It is generally believed that the political vision of senior military generals is higher than that of middle and lower level officers. In other words, military leaders have a more rational understanding of the possibility of the success of the military coup, which has buried the root of failure for the coup. As a result, the coup soldiers used armed helicopters to attack the presidential palace and parliament building, which was resolutely attacked by the air force F-16.
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