A part of the Turkish army is pulling off a coup. Can someone explain why?

As I understand, the Turkish President Erdogan has become increasingly like a dictator. At the same time, he and his allies have apparently been buying oil from DAESH. and maybe helping them in other ways. Not a good thing. Turkey has been a secular democracy [more or less] since the fall of the Turkish Empire in WWI. Its first modern leader, Ataturk, was determined to root out the Muslim control of the Turkish government, and the army has always been ready to maintain the modern government in case it started to slip back into dictatorship. In recent years under Erdogan, veils, fezes and turbans were illegal in public. Lately, Islamism has been growing there.
That is my first take on this. But of course, much more info is going to come out in the coming days. I hope.

A part of the Turkish army is attempting to pull off a coup. I can only guess, but the Turkish military has always seen itself as a defender of Turkish democracy. It is possible they feel it is now threatened.

The Turkish Army sees itself as the guardian of the turkish constitution as created/envision by Ataturk which enshrined Turkey as a secular state.
Erdogan and his party has been chipping away at this secularism and pushing the islamization of Turkey. He has also been targeting the military and replacing the generals with his chronies

Because nerdagon is an ******.

They're in opposition to Turkey's government, particularly Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the incumbent president. I doubt anything of historical significance will come of it, though.

I'm not a big fan of the Turkish government, but in a month no-one will even remember this.

Eyewitnesses have reported attack helicopters firing machine guns in the capital Ankara in a bid to depose the Islamic government.

The military said they have taken control in order to protect human rights,

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