Coup In Turkey Apparently Fails

It appears that the attempted coup in Turkey has failed as even the anti-Erdogan parties as well as senior military commanders did not support the coup which pretty much guaranteed its failure. As I mentioned before, President Erdogan will use this opportunity expand his autocratic powers. In addition to the thousands of military personnel that have been rounded up, apparently over 2,700 judges have also been dismissed, though it is hard to see how they were involved in the coup. And, I fear, this is only the beginning of the payback that Erdogan has promised. Hopefully, the international community can temper Erdogan’s thirst for retribution, but, in the past, he has always gone overboard in his retaliations. Trying to overthrow a democratically elected government is never a good thing, but I do wonder if a few years down the road some Turks will question whether they wished they had done more to support the coup plotters.