A bigger, more weird stupidity is that, the parliament was on vacation, that is there were no parliamenters in the national assembly building when the coup started, they actually went there during the coup to defend the parliament. And since the beginning, in none of the coups, there were an assault of the parliament building.
But we must bear in mind that social media was crucial. People knew that sth. was going on very early, whereas in the past, they'd do the thing and then we'd know.
> The Turkish Air Force established air superiority over Istanbul but never shot down the president's plane.
He came istanbul after the airport was rather safe though.
> Most military units blatantly weren't involved. In the coup or even scrambled to defend against it.
It was the work of a junta within the army. In fact most other generals quickly ordered soldiers to retract. They didn't shoot the planes and the choppers down, but how could they? Those were flying over very populous cities, I guess in case they did attempt to take them down, there would be at least thousands of dead, because the jets were coming from a base only 30km away from the city of Ankara.
At the end of the day, 2 days into the aftermath, everything is too hazy to properly reason, I think.
