You are listening to the War on the Rocks podcast on Strategy, Defense and Foreign Affairs.

My name is Ryan Evans.

I'm the Editor-in-Chief of War Warren The Rocks. This is a special episode in which

we try to sort through what happened over the weekend in Turkey. As you probably know by now, there was an

attempted military coup that began Friday evening local time. Parts of the military rose up against the government

led by President Erdogan and his Justice and Development Party or the AKP. It became clear

over the course of several hours that the coup is not going to succeed.

Large parts of the military at least stayed loyal to the government, as did the police services,

and perhaps most importantly crowds of ordinary Turks who turned out into the streets and said no and even

stood down tanks in the streets to put their foot down and say they weren't going to

stand for another military coup in a country that has suffered many of these events.

Now this was originally broadcast live on our website as a Google Hangout on Air,

so those of you who got to listen live,

also got to ask questions of our guests.

We put together a great panel of experts to sort

through some really difficult issues that these events raised. Now, the obvious ones are, what

happened exactly? And I don't know if we're ever going to fully understand that and what does this mean for the future of civil military relations in Turkey which has always been a sort of contentious issue.

This also raises the issue of what Erdogan is going to do next.

He seems to have taken this opportunity to crack down on his political

opponents of all stripes and he is blaming the coup on the Gulen movement.

Well this is something you might have heard of before it's a Islamic religious

movement, a social movement that is led by

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