Another good article on another important subject. I like that this author clearly identifies what he thinks can be known and what is speculation based on trying to connect the dots. He says/admits/explains that almost everything is speculation. His article helps describe the stage with a little more depth of field than most I have seen. One thing I noticed but which is mostly ignored is that the allegation that Putin tipped off Erdogan a few hours before the coup was put in motion would plausibly explain some of the questions regarding the seemingly amateurish nature of the operation itself. It is apparent that the coup plotters did plan to immediately capture and/or kill Erdogan and if that had been successful it is easy to imagine that the coup would have been successful. Turkey might have woke up to a done deal with a new savior taking the reigns rather than the night before Erdogan's supporters being called to the streets in mass while his enemies, the hoped for coup supporters, sat home in the dark wondering what was going on and who was doing whatever was being done. 

 Here is another attempt to connect dots and come up with a picture that looks realistic and so might be accurate. So far in all cases we just have a composite drawing based on witnesses who were/are too far away to give better descriptions. We need more dots. What we see is in every article is probably more of a caricature based on what features the different writers see as most prominent. As in other cases like this filled with the intrigue of false motives and outside forces I hope we eventually get full color high definition photos from every angle, but I don't expect that to happen. Anyway, thanks for the link. I have bookmarked the author as someone worth checking out going forward. I think the subject is important enough to occasionally come up in the news. 

The article mentioned the words 'Gulen' or 'Gulenist' 48 times, and 'Erdogan' only 14 times. Since Erdogan is vastly increasing his control in Turkey with a purge of tens of thousands, and Gulen lives in the Poconos, and has for years, the focus of the article appeared unbalanced.